Re: [Gendergap] Some nice news

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https://wikimania2013.wikimedia.org/wiki/Submissions_sorted_by_number_of_in… - some of the most-wanted talks are "Towards bridging the gender gap in Indian Wikimedia community" and "Recruiting Librarians and Archivists to Help Close the Wikipedia Gender Gap" with "Bridging the Gender Gap with Women Scientists" a little further behind. https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Talk:Ombudsman_commission#Gender_neutrality has several people speaking up in favor of a more gender-neutral name. (Feel free to pipe up there.) The Wikimedia engineering department's participation in Outreach Program for Women internships https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Outreach_Program_for_Women#Round_6 led to far more women and genderfluid people applying for the Google Summer of Code internships than we'd ever recruited before. Previous years: 0-2 non-spammy applications. This year: ~10. Practicing affirmative outreach and explicitly welcoming women really works. One applicant told me that #mediawiki is one of the few open source-related IRC channels she's felt comfortable and welcomed in. Various Wikimedian women are going to be speaking at Open Source Bridge next month http://opensourcebridge.org/blog/2013/05/2013-speakers-list-is-here/ , including Sucheta Ghoshal, me, Alolita Sharma, and Valerie Aurora. So, we have a lot to do, but I just wanted to take a moment to say yay. -- Sumana Harihareswara Engineering Community Manager Wikimedia Foundation _______________________________________________ Gendergap mailing list Gendergap(a)lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/gendergap