Sydney,
Good idea. I added some goals to the subsection on goals and structure. I think these are
unrelated, btw
I won't be in Berlin so I hope you post a link to your talk here.
Jane
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On Oct 18, 2013, at 1:29 AM, Sydney Poore <sydney.poore(a)gmail.com> wrote:
Hi ,
Today I began the discussion about establishing a Wikimedia Foundation affiliated user
group around the topic of addressing the gender gap in Wikimedia Foundation projects. I
see this as being an international organization where people from all over the world can
work together on this common cause.
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Talk:Gender_gap_strategy_2013#Establishing_…
The threshold for being recognized is pretty low., only 3 people, but I would not want to
go for affiliation with less than 10 interested people. And I hope we can attract many
many more.
I plan to discuss this in Berlin at the Diversity Conference but want to make it clear
that the organization is open to every one interested in actively working on the topic. So
please spread the word.
I put a sign up space in the thread so we can capture the initial interest that came out
of this thread.
One of the key discussion will be the name of the group. So everyone put their thinking
caps on so we can make this decision within the next month of so.
Sydney Poore
On Wed, Oct 16, 2013 at 4:29 PM, Nathan <nawrich(a)gmail.com> wrote:
On Wed, Oct 16, 2013 at 4:11 PM, Sydney <sydney.poore(a)gmail.com> wrote:
Yes, with the narrowing focus last year the
community will need to take the
lead. But from the meeting earlier this year it is clear that there
definitely is talented people on staff at WMF who are more than willing to
assist as their time permits.
That's unfortunate. I understood the narrowing focus to mean not
placing WMF offices and contractors around the world, or doing sort of
boots on the ground face to face outreach. Since usability initiatives
and some other programs are still ongoing, it seems like the gender
gap should've stayed on the table for direct involvement even if not
through the vehicle of the fellowship program. Too bad.
That said, there are chapters who receive hundreds of thousands of
dollars in funding from the FDC despite having objectively achieved
very little to date; certainly that means there is an opportunity
there for people with an interest in dedicating themselves full time
to this work to be compensated fairly through a funded WMF affiliate.
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