[Advocacy Advisors] Digital Rights Networking Lunch @ Wikimania

[Stevie Benton]

Taking the heat out of this a little,  wouldn't it be great if we could
reschedule if possible? I think given the conversation we are having it
feels important that 1) Yana is there to share her perspective and 2) we
make a conscious choice and show that advocacy in our movement is
*definitely not* "an old boys club".

Stevie
On 3 Aug 2014 21:38, "Luis Villa" <lvilla at wikimedia.org> wrote:

> Given the bluntly awful representation of women around the projects[1],
> yes, the WikiWomen's lunch should get some different deference. It is
> unfortunate that the issue was raised so close to the date of the
> conference[2], but I hope Dimi will try to find some alternatives that are
> workable.
>
> Luis
>
> [1] Take a look at who posts on this list. Or the membership of affcom
> <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Affiliations_Committee#mediaviewer/File:AffCom_group_photo_-_Wikimedia_Conference_2014.jpg>.
> Or... I could go on and on with examples.
> [2] I, like many of you, will have to reschedule some other lunch meetings
> if the date for this is changed.
>
>
> On Sun, Aug 3, 2014 at 1:25 PM, L.Gelauff <lgelauff at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> 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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