Hi Harriet,
Thank you for the mail. I was asked by the participants if India would be
willing to host the WikiWomencamp next year. I did not reply positively as
there were only around 5 women in India at present who would be willing to
take part in the organisation process. For an international camp, we would
require the presence of at least 20 women, out of which at least 3 of them
should be residing at the national capital to take care of the visa
requirements.
If you know a group of women who would be happy to assist us in organising
the camp, I will be happy to put you in touch with Beria Lima and Laura
Hale, the organisers of the WikiWomenCamp.
Looking forward to hear from you!
Netha Hussain
On Sun, May 27, 2012 at 10:51 AM, Outofindia <outofindia(a)gmail.com> wrote:
Netha
Awesome to hear from you!
Like the others, will wait to hear the details.
Count me in for any WikiWomenCamp India!
Mangalore is close enough and if anyone wants to organise anything here..I
will be happy to coordinate and organise.
Harriet
Harriet Vidyasagar
www.outofindia.net
www.womenofindia.net
INDIA: 91-99011 66276
USA: 1-301-649-2240
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> 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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