That's interesting:
"The workshops are open to all Afrodescendants including but not limited to individuals who self-identify as African, African-American, Afro-Latino, Biracial, Black, Black-American, Caribbean, Garifuna, Haitian or West Indian."
I've never seen editithons that exclude people before. I've been to a couple of black history events, and all were welcomed, although of course there was a very high proportion of African descent. Likewise, the women's editing events I have attended have been very welcoming to men, although as you would expect, there is a very high attendance level for women.
On Sat, Mar 21, 2015 at 12:37 PM, Carol Moore dc carolmooredc@verizon.net wrote:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Meetup/NYC/Wikipedia_Day_2015
Wikipedia Day NYC 2015 is a celebration and mini-conference for the project's 14th birthday,* to be held on Sunday March 22, 2015, hosted at Barnard College starting at 10:00 am, and also supported by Wikimedia New York City and fellow Free Culture Alliance NYC partners.
There are various events, sessions, talks, etc. Nothing women oriented but I do see involvement by a new NYC meetup group: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Meetup/NYC/AfroCrowd"
Talk page hasn't even been opened yet to comment on its goal: "to increase the number of people of African Descent who actively partake in the Wikimedia and free knowledge, culture and software movements." I guess meetups targeted on certain groups are less controversial than task forces.
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