On Wed, May 8, 2013 at 10:15 AM, Sarah Stierch sarah.stierch@gmail.comwrote:
Andreas - when you say "until the Foundation does something," what are you looking for them to do?
You can always directly write the legal team and ask them for input on what "they" could do regarding your concerns. That's what I would do if I was you.
As you very well know, grantmaking and technical aren't able to do much of anything, due to our new focus. However, community members are welcome to develop Individual Engagement Grants and chapters are able to acquire funding for programs and projects, and the gender gap is something everyone loves to talk about over and over and over again but no one seems to be willing to step up as individuals or as chapters to make large scale changes outside of outreach activities. (And I am grateful for all people do on this list, but..I'm just sayin...it seems to be the same people over and over again bringing this up, however, all people seem to do to about it is complain and talk about it, and take no action, and it's really tiring and depressing to watch and puts the burden on those of us who have limited time and are already burnt out).
I've started a page for a Gender Bias task force here, if anyone would like to sign up -- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_Countering_systemic_bias/...
I thought it might help to have a page where we can openly discuss the issues.
Sarah