Rohini, I've been excited to see the India work plan develop and will be really interested to hear what comes next as plans develop into action!  We've been wondering if you and others in the India community would want to partner with WMF to organize a gender gap event in Bangalore in February as followup to Diversity Conference....it seems like having more ways to gather and grow the conversation in person a couple of times this year could be useful.  And perhaps an affiliate org (go, Sydney!!) could help keep that happening over time too.

Even though we don't have a focused gender gap grants program in particular (although WMF Engineering does have the Outreach Program for Women, which is awesomely getting more women involved in MediaWiki), I'd love to find ways to encourage more grant proposals for projects aimed at the gender gap coming into IdeaLab, IEG, etc...I wonder if we can organize some sort of 2014 campaign around this?

WMF doesn't have staff whose full-time jobs are focused on this issue, that's true, but there are lots of us who care and do want to put time and energy towards this work as we're able.



On Wed, Oct 16, 2013 at 12:00 PM, Rohini Lakshané <rohini@wikimedia.in> wrote:
Hello everyone,

Last month, I had put together a work plan for Gender gap activities in India: http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Gender_gap_India_work_plan

I would greatly appreciate it if you could add your suggestions, feedback and comments to the work plan or post them here. The strategy shared by Siko Bouterse is full of ideas I could incorporate into the work plan, and it addresses some of the challenges I have been thinking long and hard about. I am delighted to see that a Gender gap event in India could be in the offing. :)

Regards,
Rohini
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Chairperson (Special Interest Group), Gender gap,
Wikimedia Chapter (India)


On Wed, Oct 9, 2013 at 2:09 AM, Siko Bouterse <sbouterse@wikimedia.org> wrote:
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:


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?


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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