Hi,
WikiWomenCamp starts tomorrow in Buenoes Aires. It is the first women in wikimedia empowerment related conference in the movement's history. A major thanks are owed to Wikimedia Argentina for hosting and Wikimedia Australia and Wikimedia Deutschland for providing scholarships that have allowed women from all over the globe to attend. Representatives have come from Spain, India, Cambodia, Portugual, Germany, Russia, South Africa, Indonesia, Canada, Argentina and Australia. (apologies to anyone I missed.) Sue Gardner will also show up and be presenting at the gendergap conference immediately following the conference.
We've been staggering in since Friday night. The energy in our early get togethers in a social sense has been fantastic and largely free of stress. :) we've already started to have fantastic conversations About possibly doing future projects together. (It might be fun to try to do something in Russia for the 2014 Olympics/Paralympics.) we have had conversations on copyright and how local copyrights impact the ability to do projects like WikiLovesMonuments, discussed stupid names for potential projects we would like to do... Like WikiLovesWar. We have discussed local responses to the camp and re-affirmed the need to host this event, discusses with pride how we managed to get these fantastic women to Argwntina for this conference with less than six months of planning and a limites budget and visa issues, discussed our GLAM work and apologizes for toes we may have inadvertently stepped on recently. We met with our facilitators and began to translate things from French into English which taught new comers more about open space. We looked at the venue space. The non-Spanish speakers have tried to learn some local words. We learned a word or two of Russian and Portuguese. :)
Sincerely, Laura Hale