[Advocacy Advisors] Digital Rights Networking Lunch @ Wikimania

[Luis Villa]

I should add that I apologize to Yana and the other women on the list for
not spotting and raising  this problem earlier. We're only going to get
better on our gender problem if we all take responsibility for spotting and
dealing with problems like this one. That includes me; I failed to do that
here, so my apologies.

Luis

On Sunday, August 3, 2014, 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
> <javascript:_e(%7B%7D,'cvml','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
>> <javascript:_e(%7B%7D,'cvml','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
>>> <javascript:_e(%7B%7D,'cvml','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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