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
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