[Advocacy Advisors] Digital Rights Networking Lunch @ Wikimania

[L.Gelauff]

Hi Yana,

that is the downside of having a wikiwomen lunch in the first place of
course - any meeting that would be planned in parallel would face the same
problem I guess (maybe except a WikiGuys lunch) of an underrepresentation
of women. I'm not sure if that should mean that the Sunday lunch should
therefore be off limits to any other meetings...

Lodewijk


2014-08-03 22:10 GMT+02:00 Yana Welinder <ywelinder at wikimedia.org>:

> I just realized that you scheduled the Digital Rights Networking Lunch at
> the same time as the WikiWomen’s lunch. It doesn't look like a lot of
> people have confirmed attendance and it hasn't been added to the official
> Wikimania program.  So perhaps there is still time to reschedule.
>
> Scheduling these two meetings at the same time means that most women who
> are interested in policy will not be able to attend and the gathering will
> be akin to an old-boys club. That in turn gives Wikimedia’s policy efforts
> less legitimacy in the broader digital rights community, which has had a
> lot of discussions about gender balance and has pretty good female
> representation overall. I know that the Wikimania schedule is tight, but
> there must be a way you can schedule this to avoid excluding an entire
> gender!
>
> Best,
> Yana
>
>
>
> On Mon, Jul 21, 2014 at 3:34 AM, Dimitar Parvanov Dimitrov <
> dimitar.parvanov.dimitrov at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Hi all,
>>
>> I've set up a page [1] and requested a room for our networking lunch on
>> Sunday. It will be in parallel with the WikiWomen's Lunch, so I apologise
>> to everyone whose scheduling now got even harder. This was, however, the
>> best possible timeslot I could manage.
>>
>> As it is not possible to get a list of all Wikimania attendees and filter
>> out the digital and policy activists among them to send out invitations,
>> please help me by inviting anyone you know will be present and interested.
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Dimi
>>
>> [1]
>> https://wikimania2014.wikimedia.org/wiki/Digital_Rights_Networking_Lunch
>>
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