Thanks for the updates Sumana, and I agree with Siko -- item #3 is especially awesome! Pete [[User:Peteforsyth]]
On Fri, May 10, 2013 at 8:11 AM, Siko Bouterse <sboute...@wikimedia.org>wrote: > Yay :-) And congratulations to you and your team, Sumana, on the OPW>GSoC > boost - it is really exciting to see the work pay off! > > > On Fri, May 10, 2013 at 7:27 AM, Sumana Harihareswara < > suma...@wikimedia.org> wrote: > >> >> https://wikimania2013.wikimedia.org/wiki/Submissions_sorted_by_number_of_interested_attendees >> - some of the most-wanted talks are "Towards bridging the gender gap in >> Indian Wikimedia community" and "Recruiting Librarians and Archivists to >> Help Close the Wikipedia Gender Gap" with "Bridging the Gender Gap with >> Women Scientists" a little further behind. >> >> >> https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Talk:Ombudsman_commission#Gender_neutrality >> has several people speaking up in favor of a more gender-neutral name. >> (Feel free to pipe up there.) >> >> The Wikimedia engineering department's participation in Outreach Program >> for Women internships >> https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Outreach_Program_for_Women#Round_6 led to >> far more women and genderfluid people applying for the Google Summer of >> Code internships than we'd ever recruited before. Previous years: 0-2 >> non-spammy applications. This year: ~10. Practicing affirmative >> outreach and explicitly welcoming women really works. One applicant >> told me that #mediawiki is one of the few open source-related IRC >> channels she's felt comfortable and welcomed in. >> >> Various Wikimedian women are going to be speaking at Open Source Bridge >> next month >> http://opensourcebridge.org/blog/2013/05/2013-speakers-list-is-here/ , >> including Sucheta Ghoshal, me, Alolita Sharma, and Valerie Aurora. >> >> So, we have a lot to do, but I just wanted to take a moment to say yay. >> >> -- >> Sumana Harihareswara >> Engineering Community Manager >> Wikimedia Foundation >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Gendergap mailing list >> Gendergap@lists.wikimedia.org >> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/gendergap >> > > > > -- > Siko Bouterse > Wikimedia Foundation, Inc. > > sboute...@wikimedia.org > > *Imagine a world in which every single human being can freely share in > the sum of all knowledge. * > *Donate <https://donate.wikimedia.org> or click the "edit" button today, > and help us make it a reality!* > > _______________________________________________ > Gendergap mailing list > Gendergap@lists.wikimedia.org > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/gendergap > >
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