Thank you, Bishakha and Anirudh.
We missed the presence of a Board of Trustee member here. I shall be very
happy to share my experiences with you in detail. The other participants
and chapters have also extended their help in launching gender sensitive
projects in India. I will be writing my experiences in detail on my
personal blogs also.
We have already got an offer from a Public library in Kerala to conduct an
outreach program. Will try to get more women into it!
Netha
On Sun, May 27, 2012 at 4:07 AM, Anirudh Bhati <anirudhsbh(a)gmail.com>wrote;wrote:
thank you for the report, netha! hopefully,
we'll see more women
participation focused workshops and meetups coming up in your hometown
soon! ;-)
best,
anirudh
On Sun, May 27, 2012 at 4:26 AM, Netha Hussain <nethahussain(a)gmail.com>wrote;wrote:
Hola!
Greetings from Buenos Aires!
I am User: Netha Hussain (1), writing from Buenos Aires, Argentina. I
was lucky to represent India in the WikiWomenCamp (2) and WikiGenero held
here from 23-26 May 2012. My travel and accommodation were sponsored by
Wikimedia Germany and Wikimedia Austria. The past four days had been
fabulous, and I enjoyed being in the company of amazing women from
different parts of the world.
The conference was held in open space format with no agenda. Open space
technology is called the 'wiki-way' of conducting conference as ideas are
created by the way of discussing in groups and accepting contributions from
all participants. I loved this, and I think we must try and use this
methodology in Indian conferences too. We discussed about many issues which
are primarily of concern to women, including mapping gender issues,
edit-wars, GLAM, attracting women to Wikiprojects etc (3). We learned about
the many projects launched in different countries for the increasing the
participation of women in administration.
I could present the Indian perspective of issues at the conference.
Most participants were amazed to know about the diversity of Indian
languages. I also spoke about the WikiConf-Mumbai 2011 and the results of
the gendergap session organized in the conference. The working of the
chapter was also explained, but it was disappointing to reveal that we did
not have had any women member in the chapter ever since.
We created a private mailing list for women to get support when dealing
with harassment, took steps to create WikiChix, decided to print books on
perspectives of women in various countries and discussed about conducting a
WikiWomencamp with more participants the coming year.
At WikiGenero which happened on 26th May, Sue Gardner delivered a
keynote address which was very inspiring. The news about the camp was
published in local newspapers. The notes are available on meta and photos
on commons(4). At the conference, I could build contacts with many women
from different parts of the world. I could learn many new things could also
share my knowledge. It was a highly rewarding experience.
(1)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Netha_Hussain
(2)
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/WikiWomenCamp
(3)
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/WikiWomenCamp/Agenda
(4)
http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:WikiWomenCamp_2012
Gracias!
Sincerely
Netha Hussain
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Student of Medicine and Surgery
Govt. Medical College, Kozhikode
Blogs : *nethahussain.blogspot.com
swethaambari.wordpress.com*
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