Am very Glad and Honoured to tell you about the First of its kind, Wiki-Women Conference to be held in India. We have been talking about the huge gender imbalance among Wikipedia contributors (not unlike science, technology, engineering, and mathematics fields). However the gender skew seems particularly prominent here.

With the Aim of attracting and sustaining larger Women population, a Conference for Women would be a Great place without any influence that would undermine the confidence(just a possibility) in any way from Male contributors. With this agenda in mind The National Wiki-Women Conference would be a two day Event (a weekend) in Pune. It has been a place of lot of historic reforms particularly in the field of Education with the initiation of Women-Education movement and establishment of the first Women's school in India. And this seems to be a Good place for the first Women's Conference considering some other practicalities as well.

As per, User:Netha Hussain has created a Meta-page for the conference Here . Dates for the conference have been proposed as 12th-13th Jan 2013 tentatively on the eve of Wikipedia Birthday on 15th Jan. Followed by an after-party till 15th which will be open for males. This will bring in Wikipedians from different areas under one roof and make it a memorable celebration ! The page will be developed as the programme shapes further here-on.

Would be Great to carry the discussion further with your inputs about the first Wiki-Women Conference in India. Look forward with sincere hope to make this happen and increase Indian women contributors and that Wikipedia benefits from a wider and more divers community of contributors.