+1 Srikanth.
Great initiative, Bishakha! All the best!
-- User: Netha Hussain
On Fri, Sep 14, 2012 at 10:57 PM, Srikanth Ramakrishnan < parakara.ghoda@gmail.com> wrote:
All the very best Bishakha. I hope the number of women editors increases by a considerable margin! --
On Fri, Sep 14, 2012 at 3:30 PM, Bishakha Datta bishakhadatta@gmail.comwrote:
---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Bishakha Datta bishakhadatta@gmail.com Date: Fri, Sep 14, 2012 at 3:29 PM Subject: Meeting to plan wiki workshop for women - Sunday 16 Sept To: Mumbai List Wikimedia wikimedia-in-mum@lists.wikimedia.org
Dear all,
Sorry for the short notice, but was trying to get enough women editors from Mumbai involved and find a venue - both are on track now, so this can happen.
Am writing to invite the Mumbai wp community to an informal meeting Sunday 16 Sept to plan a wiki academy or workshop for women in Mumbai.
Here is where I am coming from: In my day job, I run a non-profit called Point of View http://www.pointofview.org, which promotes the points of view of women through media, art and culture. In this capacity and others, I routinely come across women, including other NGOs working with women, and with women bloggers and others active on social media. Many of them have expressed a tentative interest in editing wikipedia, but are stuck at this place. Pranav and I visited one such org in Mumbai earlier this year, but it's too time-consuming going org by org.
Instead, I propose that we start with an introductory workshop for interested individuals/organizations and then perhaps follow up with those who are more interested...hoping to do the introductory workshop sometime in November. And hoping that each of you can similarly invite interested women to the Nov workshop.
This is a working meeting devoted to planning this workshop. If you would like to be part of it and help reduce the gender gap at wikipedia, please do come!
The meeting will be held at 4 pm on Sunday 16 Sept at Pinstorm's office (many thanks, Netra for offering us this facility). *Pinstorm, Swati Bldg, North Avenue, Santa Cruz (W) Bombay 400 054 Phone: +91 22 6739 3888*
There is a map here http://www.pinstorm.com/contact_us.htm.
Cheers Bishakha
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