New subject: Women in the Wikimedia movement: Conversations with communities

5 Mar 2018

*Hi everyone, In honour of Women’s History Month, the Community Engagement
department is hosting a series of conversations with community members
about Women in the Wikimedia movement
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Community_Engagement/Women_in_the_Wikimedia_movement:_Conversations_with_communities>,
and what their experience is like contributing to our projects. Our
conversations will focus on women within three strategic areas of our work:
Programs, Technical Spaces, and Leadership positions. Each conversation
will have two community members presenting on their work, and 15-20 minutes
at the end for conversation, follow up questions, and discussion. The goal
of these discussions is to foster understanding of challenges and
inequalities that women face throughout our movement, and to engage with
our communities to help better address them.These conversations will be
online events, streamed on YouTube, and hosted on BlueJeans. If you would
like to participate in these events, please add the event to your calendar,
or sign up on wiki: - Women in Wikimedia programs: Thursday, March 8, 2018,
17:00 UTC (add to calendar
<https://calendar.google.com/event?action=TEMPLATE&tmeid=NzNqdGxuNWttazNwMGZmOXRraG1rcXJ0b28gd2lraW1lZGlhLm9yZ184bXNrZXFjcmpmOXQ2cWJjMjllYml0bGs3Y0Bn&tmsrc=wikimedia.org_8mskeqcrjf9t6qbc29ebitlk7c%40group.calendar.google.com>)
(sign up on wiki
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Community_Engagement/Women_in_the_Wikimedia_movement:_Conversations_with_communities#Women_in_Wikimedia_programs>)
Presenters: Monika Sengul-Jones (OCLC Wikipedian in Residence) and Luisina
Ferrante (Wikimedia Argentina education coordinator). - Women in
leadership: Wednesday, March 14, 2018, 19:00 UTC (add to calendar
<https://calendar.google.com/event?action=TEMPLATE&tmeid=MGJqaXQzaTlmb3ZpMnJvaDc1ZGYxY29vb2ogd2lraW1lZGlhLm9yZ184bXNrZXFjcmpmOXQ2cWJjMjllYml0bGs3Y0Bn&tmsrc=wikimedia.org_8mskeqcrjf9t6qbc29ebitlk7c%40group.calendar.google.com>)
(sign up on wiki
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Community_Engagement/Women_in_the_Wikimedia_movement:_Conversations_with_communities#Women_in_leadership>)
Presenters: Mervat Salman (Wiki Arabia 2015 organizer) and Natalia
Szafran-Kozakowska (CEE Spring coordinator, and Polish Wikipedia sysop) -
Women in technical spaces: Wednesday, March 21st, 15:00 UTC (add to
calendar
<https://calendar.google.com/event?action=TEMPLATE&tmeid=MzFqMWV2YXZlc3VrYjJsYTZscWxjbXRxZjcgd2lraW1lZGlhLm9yZ184bXNrZXFjcmpmOXQ2cWJjMjllYml0bGs3Y0Bn&tmsrc=wikimedia.org_8mskeqcrjf9t6qbc29ebitlk7c%40group.calendar.google.com>)
(sign up on wiki
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Community_Engagement/Women_in_the_Wikimedia_movement:_Conversations_with_communities#Women_in_technical_spaces>)
Presenters: Josephine Lim (Mediawiki contributor) and Ciell (organizer of
all-women hackathon in the Netherlands).If you find this conversation
series interesting, I would greatly appreciate your support spreading the
word. Please feel free to invite anyone you think might have something to
add to the conversations. I look forward to seeing many of you online!Best,
María*

*María Cruz * \\  Communications and Outreach project manager, L&E
Team \\ Wikimedia
Foundation, Inc.
mcruz(a)wikimedia.org  |  Twitter:  @marianarra_
<https://twitter.com/marianarra_>