Hi Keilana, Lennart and J,
Thanks for the feedback. Based on your suggestions, if we try this again,
we might try moving to weekend dates and slowing our cadence to alternate
weeks.
We're hoping that the University of Washington Libraries will identify
someone on their staff who they're already funding and would be interested
in accepting a Wikimedian-in-Residence role. If this happens then perhaps
one of the WiR's roles can be to lead these events. Alternatively, with
Cascadia Wikimeidans slowly but surely growing our number of regular
Wikimedians, perhaps one of our members will want to take on UW editathons
as his or her main project.
Another question that I have is about scaling. We're scaling quite slowly
and incrementally overall, but have had zero growth in the past 12 months
with our number of regular female attendees. I'm told that very slow growth
is normal for affiliates. I'd like to see us grow our numbers, which in
turn would enable us to do more outreach events and generate a positive
feedback loop. Any suggestions about how to make that happen, particularly
with potential female contributors who are very underrepresented among our
population of regular attendees?
Thanks,
Pine