Our Scholarships Chair, Chris Brousseau and I sat down this weekend and reviewed the scholarship applicants for PyBay. We were really impressed by the quality and diversity of our applicants. 77% of the applicants represent diverse ethnicities, 43% female, and 4% transgender or gender non-conforming. The application pool included speakers at the conference and contributors to sklearn, mypy, django, the firefox browser, as well as PyLadies organizers. You’ve made our decision very hard, but we were able to award 7 scholarships today — Woot! Congratulations to the scholarship recipients.

A special THANK YOU to Sauce Labs, InfoScout and Galvanize for supporting our scholarships. Please read up on each of these awesome Scholarship Partners on our scholarships page.

What’s next?

We still have 100+ people who need a scholarship, and really deserve an opportunity to join us at PyBay. We really need to fill the gap — can you help?.

If diversity in tech and contributing back to the Python ecosystem are among your company’s branding objectives, you no longer need to be a sponsor to get community visibility and directly contribute to diversity in tech. This means whether you can spare $1800, $6,000 or something in between, you will get a ton of community love, recognition at our site, our blog, at PyBay, and oh sooo much gratitude from the recipients. See more info here and message Chris (email link in the FAQ) to get you set up!

In addition, if you are an individual having a few dollars to spend, we’ve created a new ticket type called donation. You won’t be getting a pass by donating but all proceeds there will go to fund eligible scholarships applicants.

Can you help us get to Round 2 so we can bring more diverse engineers to PyBay?

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