Hi Sarah, hi @all, 

thank you, Sarah, for this new thread
and thank you for sharing your activitities with us, I particularly like the teahouse :-)

at the annual meeting that picks up a 1920s Berlin tradition of lesbians who meet over the extended 
weekend of Whitsuntide, we met in Nuremberg (city of human rights) this year for another fabulous self-
organized non-commercial bunch of worshops, plenary sessions, cultural programme and a manifestation in 
downtown Nuremberg - and all of this in 90% barrier-free arrangements, one of the acknowledged hallmarks 
of this meeting, called "LFT" (Lesben-Fruehlings-Treffen, lesbian spring meetings)

for the first time, a Wikipedia workshop was held (initiated by me and spontaneously co-moderated by a 
visually-impaired translesbian colleague), with 8 participants

for a short round-up of what "Lesbenfruehling" meetings are doing to promote transparency 
and openness also in other respects: 
the meeting also included a panel discussion on the current situation for lesbians in neighbouring countries 
like Croatia (to be joining the EU in July 2013), Poland (EU member since 2004), Hungary (EU member since 
2007) and Russia (member country of the Council of Europe http://www.coe.int/ that is human rights-
related), with Poland clearly on the upside, Croatia almost, and Russia and Hungary on servere downsides, 
with Russian regional parliaments having introduced explicitly homo- and transphobic bills that we are 
fighting against in international solidarity. By way of an example, our panel speakers from Croatia belong to 
the team who form the lesbian feminist mixed choir "Le Zbor" (www.lezbor.com) and the last song of their 
evening programme was from Russia and sung in Russian. We also had workshops dedicated more 
specifically to the situation in Russia and Hungary and in Germany, e.g. on an initiative to finally put up a 
specifically lesbian memorial stone on the site of the former concentration camp Ravensbrueck that was 
women only. At the downtown rally we read out the names of known lesbian individuals that died because 
of persecution during the Nazi regime (i.e. those who could not or did not want to leave the country early 
enough in those years). 

this is just to give you an example of how LFT meetings work on a culture of openness that I think is close to 
what Wikipedia is aiming at, too,