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!*
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