Handbook

Welcome to the PyLadies Vancouver Handbook! This is an open guide to how our community works — whether you’d like to speak at a meetup, host a venue, donate, or help organize, you’ll find what you need here.

We’re publishing this in the open for two reasons: so anyone helping out has a clear, repeatable guide to follow, and so our community can see how much goes into each event.

Who This Is For  

• Speakers — see Speak at Our Meetup
• Venue hosts — see Host a Venue
• Donors & sponsors — see Donate and Sponsor
• Organizers & volunteers — see Organizing a Meetup

How This Handbook Is Organized  

• Ways to participate — guides for speaking, hosting, donating, and helping organize
• Organizing a meetup — the behind-the-scenes steps we follow to run an event, plus how this website is built and edited
• Templates — reusable starting points, like our event description template

Anyone Can Help  

You don’t need to be a designated “organizer” to pitch in. We coordinate in the #city-vancouver channel in the PyLadies Slack — come say hi, tell us what you’d like to help with, and we’ll get you started. You can also reach us at vancouver at pyladies dot com.

Stay Up to Date  

Keep up with what we’re doing:

• Subscribe to our Luma calendar  to get upcoming events in your own calendar app
• Subscribe to our RSS feed for new blog posts
• Follow us on social media — LinkedIn, Instagram, Mastodon, and Bluesky (linked below)
• Follow our hashtag — #pyladiesvancouver

Get in Touch  

• Slack — the #city-vancouver channel on the PyLadies Slack 
• Email — vancouver at pyladies dot com

You can also find us on LinkedIn  , Instagram  , Mastodon  , and Bluesky  .