Given the bluntly awful representation of women around the projects[1], yes, the WikiWomen's lunch should get some different deference. It is unfortunate that the issue was raised so close to the date of the conference[2], but I hope Dimi will try to find some alternatives that are workable.

Luis

[1] Take a look at who posts on this list. Or the membership of affcom. Or... I could go on and on with examples.
[2] I, like many of you, will have to reschedule some other lunch meetings if the date for this is changed.


On Sun, Aug 3, 2014 at 1:25 PM, L.Gelauff <lgelauff@gmail.com> wrote:
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@wikimedia.org>:

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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