THE SECRET WEAPON OF
PYTHON
About you, me and everyone else
PyCon MY, Aug 2016, Kuala Lumpur

Who Am I?
@iqbalabd
● Iqbal Abdullah
● Day job is running Xoxzo Inc, a
cloud telephony platform based
in Tokyo
● Involved in PyCons since 2010,
and helped found PyCon JP and
PyCon MY
● Travels around meeting other
PyCon organizers and especially
interested in the APAC region

Diversity
Inclusion
Personal growth

Even scarier, I was challenged by
those closest to me, who
claimed a "woman in tech"
should not wear a dress or
compare cooking with coding
during her talk.

Programs are
for humans
We tend to forget this
● We tend to forget software, the
python code that you write is
written for people, by people.
● Any tech conference, PyCon
included, are as good as the
people that attend it.

Diversity

Programming is no longer about
(insert stereotype here) hunching
over laptops writing code.
That was a different decade.

Look around and
you’ll know if you
have diversity.

35%
McKinsey’s Diversity Matters report published in February 2015 found that ethnically
diverse companies are more likely to outperform their peers.

Watch this video on Youtube
Jessica McKellar and
Asheesh Laroia:
Diversity in Practice

● Have targets
● Outreach programs
● Beginner friendly
● Success stories

Inclusion

Diversity is being invited
to the party
Inclusion is being asked
to dance.

Diversity At Google under Inclusion

Ninjas or
rockstars don’t
exists
These are titles created not by the
engineering community, but by
marketing

Your first program

Adrienne Lowe in Bake the Cookies, Wear that Dress
“We're not superheroes, rockstars, and ninjas, and we
never were.
Critically, I'll emphasize how important rebuking these
titles is to nurturing new talent in our community.
Whether we realize it or not, the way we talk about
ourselves and the things we build has profound
implications for the next generation of developers.
As experienced developers, we can't keep telling
learners that we're not ‘born with it’, but making it look
like we are"

Personal growth

The Impostor
Syndrome
When you think you’re not good
enough
Impostor syndrome (also known as
impostor phenomenon or fraud
syndrome) is a term coined in 1978 by
clinical psychologists Dr. Pauline R.
Clance and Suzanne A. Imes referring
to high-achieving individuals marked
by an inability to internalize their
accomplishments and a persistent
fear of being exposed as a "fraud".

Our friends in APAC

It’s not only code.

Tell your story
Be authentic and connect
● More than just the coding and
websockets.
● Be human and authentic
● Tell your story and connect with
other people around you.

Micaela from PH

Doubts?
Questions?

Xoxzo is hiring!
Let’s talk over coffee.