Hi everyone,
In honour of Women’s History Month, I will be coordinating a series of
conversations with community members about Women in the Wikimedia movement
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Community_Engagement/Women_in_the_Wikimedia_movement:_Conversations_with_communities>,
and what their experience is like contributing to our projects.
Our conversations will focus on women within three strategic areas of our
work: Programs, Technical Spaces, and Leadership positions. Each
conversation will have two community members presenting on their work, and
15-20 minutes at the end for conversation, follow up questions, and
discussion. The goal of these discussions is to foster understanding of
challenges and inequalities that women face throughout our movement, and to
engage with our communities to help better address them.
These conversations will be online events, streamed on our YouTube channel
<https://www.youtube.com/c/WikimediaLearningandEvaluationCE>, and hosted on
BlueJeans. If you would like to participate in these events, please add the
event to your calendar, or sign up on wiki:
-
Women in Wikimedia programs: Thursday, March 8, 2018, 17:00 UTC (add to
calendar
<https://calendar.google.com/event?action=TEMPLATE&tmeid=NzNqdGxuNWttazNwMGZmOXRraG1rcXJ0b28gd2lraW1lZGlhLm9yZ184bXNrZXFjcmpmOXQ2cWJjMjllYml0bGs3Y0Bn&tmsrc=wikimedia.org_8mskeqcrjf9t6qbc29ebitlk7c%40group.calendar.google.com>)
(sign up on wiki
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Community_Engagement/Women_in_the_Wikimedia_movement:_Conversations_with_communities#Women_in_Wikimedia_programs>
)
Presenters: Monika Sengul-Jones (OCLC Wikipedian in Residence) and Luisina
Ferrante (Wikimedia Argentina education coordinator).
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Women in leadership: Wednesday, March 14, 2018, 19:00 UTC (add to
calendar
<https://calendar.google.com/event?action=TEMPLATE&tmeid=MGJqaXQzaTlmb3ZpMnJvaDc1ZGYxY29vb2ogd2lraW1lZGlhLm9yZ184bXNrZXFjcmpmOXQ2cWJjMjllYml0bGs3Y0Bn&tmsrc=wikimedia.org_8mskeqcrjf9t6qbc29ebitlk7c%40group.calendar.google.com>)
(sign up on wiki
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Community_Engagement/Women_in_the_Wikimedia_movement:_Conversations_with_communities#Women_in_leadership>
)
Presenters: Mervat Salman (Wiki Arabia 2015 organizer) and Natalia
Szafran-Kozakowska (CEE Spring coordinator, and Polish Wikipedia sysop)
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Women in technical spaces: Wednesday, March 21st, 15:00 UTC (add to
calendar
<https://calendar.google.com/event?action=TEMPLATE&tmeid=MzFqMWV2YXZlc3VrYjJsYTZscWxjbXRxZjcgd2lraW1lZGlhLm9yZ184bXNrZXFjcmpmOXQ2cWJjMjllYml0bGs3Y0Bn&tmsrc=wikimedia.org_8mskeqcrjf9t6qbc29ebitlk7c%40group.calendar.google.com>)
(sign up on wiki
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Community_Engagement/Women_in_the_Wikimedia_movement:_Conversations_with_communities#Women_in_technical_spaces>
)
Presenters: Josephine Lim (Mediawiki contributor) and Ciell (organizer of
all-women hackathon in the Netherlands).
If you find this conversation series interesting, I would greatly
appreciate your support spreading the word. Please feel free to invite
anyone you think might have something to add to the conversations.
I look forward to seeing many of you online!
Best,
María
*María Cruz * \\ Communications and Outreach project manager, L&E
Team \\ Wikimedia
Foundation, Inc.
mcruz(a)wikimedia.org | Twitter: @marianarra_
<https://twitter.com/marianarra_>