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PyLadiesCon Google Summer of Code 2025 Ideas
PyLadiesCon is an online conference for the global PyLadies community. Our conference began in 2023. During our conference, we host 24 hours of online engagement, talks, keynotes, panels, and workshops for our community members. We strive of inclusivity and accessibility, providing talks in multiple-languages, and we take extra care in subtitling and translating our talks. Our conference is free to attend, and attendees can optionally donate to our conference.
Being an online, multi-language, multi-timezone conference, we face unique and different challenges from other types of events and conferences. Our organizers are all volunteers from different part of the world. We have many communications and coordinations with our team of volunteers ahead of the conference, and less during the conference itself.
Our organizing team collaborate with each other to manage our volunteers, our speakers, and our sponsors. Each team also collaborate with our design and media team to produce promotional assets. For the last 2 years, we manage a lot of our assets and information using spreadsheets and Google Forms. However, managing and sharing data with various volunteers using spreadsheets have been challenging, and a cause of frustrations and confusion among our team of volunteers.
This year, we are developing an online web portal for us to manage the behind the scenes work of our conference. Instead of Spreadsheets, we will be accepting volunteer sign ups and sponsorship sign ups through our web portal. Our team leads will be assigning task and tracking team progress through the web portal. We also want to build a conference dashboard to provide overview and statistics about our conference.
Video preview: https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/facd5633-acad-4958-bd2a-36f8ae429432
The Portal: https://pyladiescon-portal.us-east-2.psfhosted.computer/
Our portal is developed using Python programming language (Python 3.13) and Django web framework (v5.1.7).
In addition to Python and Django, we are using various third party libraries like django-allauth, pytest, coverage. We can and will add other third-party libraries as the need arises.
Our web app is Dockerized, and we use Postgres as our database.
Thanks to the support from The PSF's Infrastructure team, we're able to deploy our web app using cabotage, the same infrastructure that powers PyPI.
For working with Git, and GitHub, we recommend using GitHub CLI, but it is optional.
- GitHub repo: https://github.com/pyladies/pyladiescon-portal
- Local dev setup guide: https://github.com/pyladies/pyladiescon-portal?tab=readme-ov-file#local-dev-setup
- Production deployment: https://pyladiescon-portal.us-east-2.psfhosted.computer/
- Project Board: https://github.com/orgs/pyladies/projects/11
- Project Milestones: https://github.com/pyladies/pyladiescon-portal/milestones
- Tech lead: @Mariatta
- Mentors: @Mariatta, @cmaureir
- Conference core organizers: @mjmolina, @georgically, @DennyPerez18, @Mariatta, @cmaureir
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Check the local dev setup guide in our project's readme.
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Join us on Discord and
#portal_devchannel, and let us know that you're a GSoC contributor.
- Read the application information.
- Ensure you write "PyLadiesCon" in the title of your application!!
- Read the expectations for prospective students.
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If you're new to Django, we recommend you go through the Django tutorial to learn more about the framework.
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Be proactive. Don't hesitate to ask question or even simply to say that you're stuck. We want to help you succeed.
Difficulty: Easy
Length: 40 hours
Skills: Python, Django
The sponsorship portal will be the place where we manage everything related to sponsorships.
Create the functionality where our Sponsorship team can go in and define sponsorship tiers: the amount, and the benefits/perks to the sponsors.
Create the functionality for our sponsors to apply to become a sponsor. They will be able to choose from the desired sponsorship tier, and they can also provide information and upload assets (company logo, company description, etc).
Start the new app using django's startapp command. Create the Django models representing the Sponsorship Profile and Sponsorship Tiers. (see similar Volunteer Profile model).
Difficulty: Easy
Length: 40 hours
Skills: Python, Django, Docs
Write email templates to be sent at various stages of the conference. Write emails in both html and plain text format. Make use of the Jinja templating when writing email.
Difficulty: Easy
Length: 40 hours
Skills: Python, Django, HTML, CSS
We are using basic Bootstrap Theme. It would be great to customize the theme using PyLadiesCon colors and branding.
We are using the built-in templates from django-allauth. It would be great to customize the templates and create a better login/logout workflow.
Currently the error message from django-allauth is quite plain (looks like regular text instead of an error message). It would be great to style the page and error messages.
Difficulty: Medium
Length: 90 hours
Skills: Python, Django
The Sponsorship Tier and Sponsorship Profile models must already been written.
Create the functionality for our sponsorship team to review sponsorship applications, and update the status of the sponsorship.
Create the functionality for our design team to upload promotional assets for each sponsors.
Provide an overview of our sponsorship progress, such as whether a contract was sent over, whether they paid for sponsorship, etc.
Difficulty: Medium
Length: 90 hours
Skills: Python, Django
Create a public landing page and dashboard to show interesting stats from the conference, such as: sponsorship dollars received, total number of sponsors, the number of volunteers, etc.
This page should be publicly available without needing to login.
Difficulty: Hard
Length: 350 hours
Skills: Python, Django
Create various dashboards and landing page for the different teams (eg sponsorship, volunteer management, staff). Display an overview about the team's progress and tasks. Display interesting stats about the team.
Provide access to the dashboard only if they are a part of the team.