I just realized that you scheduled the Digital Rights Networking Lunch at the same time as the WikiWomen’s lunch. It doesn't look like a lot of people have confirmed attendance and it hasn't been added to the official Wikimania program.  So perhaps there is still time to reschedule. 

Scheduling these two meetings at the same time means that most women who are interested in policy will not be able to attend and the gathering will be akin to an old-boys club. That in turn gives Wikimedia’s policy efforts less legitimacy in the broader digital rights community, which has had a lot of discussions about gender balance and has pretty good female representation overall. I know that the Wikimania schedule is tight, but there must be a way you can schedule this to avoid excluding an entire gender!

Best, 
Yana



On Mon, Jul 21, 2014 at 3:34 AM, Dimitar Parvanov Dimitrov <dimitar.parvanov.dimitrov@gmail.com> wrote:
Hi all,

I've set up a page [1] and requested a room for our networking lunch on Sunday. It will be in parallel with the WikiWomen's Lunch, so I apologise to everyone whose scheduling now got even harder. This was, however, the best possible timeslot I could manage.

As it is not possible to get a list of all Wikimania attendees and filter out the digital and policy activists among them to send out invitations, please help me by inviting anyone you know will be present and interested.

Thanks,
Dimi

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