The assumption should always be that a new venue or opportunity for
participation will be appreciated and used. Often enough that is the
case.
Fred
That was one theory behind my original intention (that
I failed to
mention).
Provide a hang out spot (which I did mention) and not just limit
ourselves
to an occasional 1 hour office spot. I'm happy to see a gender-related
office hour event take place (I hope it does happen as the strategic plan
goodness proceeds), but my only fear is that it will limit peoples
participation who might want to have a little corner of the IRC world to
call our own on a regular basis.
Why not both? :) I did have a few other folks +1 this idea via IRC!
#wikimedia-gendergap
(and Steven I'll still take you up on some IRC coaching for my n00bness)
On Fri, Aug 19, 2011 at 5:55 PM, ChaoticFluffy
<chaoticfluffy(a)gmail.com>wrote;wrote:
I'd be on board for a gendergap channel.
I'm nearly always on IRC, and
I've
love the opportunity to coach new women or just chat with old gendergap
types of both sexes. Office hours-style meetings are less attractive to
me,
as they're nearly always chaotic enough to be almost useless.
-Fluffernutter
On Fri, Aug 19, 2011 at 2:49 PM, Sarah Stierch
<sarah.stierch(a)gmail.com>wrote;wrote:
Any thoughts on having a gender gap or
women's outreach IRC channel?
I think it'd be nice to have an open hang out for those interested (of
any
gender) to participate in not only conversation, but, have live action
dialogue about articles of concern and so forth.
Or is that opening a can of worms that shouldn't be opened?
I like the idea, but, if it'd be just me sitting in a room by
myself...that'd be no fun!
-Sarah
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