Hi all,

In July, we hosted a small gathering in San Francisco to consider the current state of the gender gap and brainstorm some initiatives that community and staff (WMF grantmakers, etc) might work on together in the coming year. After a shamefully long time,[1] notes from this meeting are finally up on meta:

https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Gender_gap_strategy_2013

Please join in, improve, share your thoughts about what's there or add new ideas to the brainstorm list!  If people are interested, we might build on this more together both on meta and at Diversity Conference in Berlin next month.[2]  

I'm also planning to host an IdeaLab session at Diversity Conference to work together on action plans for diversity-focused projects. If you aren't able to attend in person, perhaps you'd want to write up your favorite idea in the IdeaLab instead, to spark some more collaborations?

https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:IdeaLab

Warm regards,

Siko

[1] Yes, it really did take me 3 months to finish removing an under-construction template and decide some things are just going to stay messy, sigh.

[2] Reminder to register by Oct 20th, I understand the program schedule will be published later this week: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Diversity_Conference

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Siko Bouterse

Head of Individual Grants
Wikimedia Foundation, Inc.
sbouterse@wikimedia.org

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