New subject: [Wikimediaindia-l] Fwd: Meeting to plan wiki workshop for women - Sunday 16 Sept

14 Sep 2012


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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