Hi Yana,
that is the downside of having a wikiwomen lunch in the first place of
course - any meeting that would be planned in parallel would face the same
problem I guess (maybe except a WikiGuys lunch) of an underrepresentation
of women. I'm not sure if that should mean that the Sunday lunch should
therefore be off limits to any other meetings...
Lodewijk
2014-08-03 22:10 GMT+02:00 Yana Welinder <ywelinder(a)wikimedia.org>rg>:
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(a)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
[1]
https://wikimania2014.wikimedia.org/wiki/Digital_Rights_Networking_Lunch
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