On Wed, Aug 15, 2012 at 2:20 AM, nikita belavate <
niki8891@gmail.com> wrote:
> Dear All,
>
> 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.
>
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>
> Warm Regards,
> Nikita Belavate.
>
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