If someone started "WomenCROWD" it would be interesting to see if the other "Crowd" meetups would support it. (AfroCROWD, HaitiCROWD, AfroLatinoCROWD, AfricaCROWD) Not that I think it's necessary, but it would be interesting to see the reaction. And I am curious as to what pushback they might have gotten and how they handled it. But being banned from the site, I'm reluctant to use the email function to ask involved individuals. Maybe I'll just ask politely via twitter? Others can too, if you are curious...

On 3/23/2015 11:25 AM, Neotarf wrote:

That's interesting:

"The workshops are open to all Afrodescendants including but not limited to individuals who self-identify as African, African-American, Afro-Latino, Biracial, Black, Black-American, Caribbean, Garifuna, Haitian or West Indian."

I've never seen editithons that exclude people before. I've been to a couple of black history events, and all were welcomed, although of course there was a very high proportion of African descent. Likewise, the women's editing events I have attended have been very welcoming to men, although as you would expect, there is a very high attendance level for women.

On Sat, Mar 21, 2015 at 12:37 PM, Carol Moore dc <carolmooredc@verizon.net> wrote:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Meetup/NYC/Wikipedia_Day_2015

Wikipedia Day NYC 2015 is a celebration and mini-conference for the project's 14th birthday,* to be held on Sunday March 22, 2015, hosted at Barnard College starting at 10:00 am, and also supported by Wikimedia New York City and fellow Free Culture Alliance NYC partners.

There are various events, sessions, talks, etc. Nothing women oriented but I do see involvement by a new NYC meetup group: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Meetup/NYC/AfroCrowd"

Talk page hasn't even been opened yet to comment on its goal: "to increase the number of people of African Descent who actively partake in the Wikimedia and free knowledge, culture and software movements." I guess meetups targeted on certain groups are less controversial than task forces.

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