https://wikimania2013.wikimedia.org/wiki/Submissions_sorted_by_number_of_interested_attendees
- some of the most-wanted talks are "Towards bridging the gender gap in
Indian Wikimedia community" and "Recruiting Librarians and Archivists to
Help Close the Wikipedia Gender Gap" with "Bridging the Gender Gap with
Women Scientists" a little further behind.

https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Talk:Ombudsman_commission#Gender_neutrality
has several people speaking up in favor of a more gender-neutral name.
(Feel free to pipe up there.)

The Wikimedia engineering department's participation in Outreach Program
for Women internships
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Outreach_Program_for_Women#Round_6 led to
far more women and genderfluid people applying for the Google Summer of
Code internships than we'd ever recruited before.  Previous years: 0-2
non-spammy applications.  This year: ~10.  Practicing affirmative
outreach and explicitly welcoming women really works.  One applicant
told me that #mediawiki is one of the few open source-related IRC
channels she's felt comfortable and welcomed in.

Various Wikimedian women are going to be speaking at Open Source Bridge
next month
http://opensourcebridge.org/blog/2013/05/2013-speakers-list-is-here/ ,
including Sucheta Ghoshal, me, Alolita Sharma, and Valerie Aurora.

So, we have a lot to do, but I just wanted to take a moment to say yay.

--
Sumana Harihareswara
Engineering Community Manager
Wikimedia Foundation

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