Sydney, Good idea. I added some goals to the subsection on goals and structure. I think these are unrelated, btw I won't be in Berlin so I hope you post a link to your talk here.
Jane Sent from my iPad On Oct 18, 2013, at 1:29 AM, Sydney Poore <sydney.po...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi , > > Today I began the discussion about establishing a Wikimedia Foundation > affiliated user group around the topic of addressing the gender gap in > Wikimedia Foundation projects. I see this as being an international > organization where people from all over the world can work together on this > common cause. > > https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Talk:Gender_gap_strategy_2013#Establishing_a_WMF-affiliated_user_group > > The threshold for being recognized is pretty low., only 3 people, but I would > not want to go for affiliation with less than 10 interested people. And I > hope we can attract many many more. > > I plan to discuss this in Berlin at the Diversity Conference but want to make > it clear that the organization is open to every one interested in actively > working on the topic. So please spread the word. > > I put a sign up space in the thread so we can capture the initial interest > that came out of this thread. > > One of the key discussion will be the name of the group. So everyone put > their thinking caps on so we can make this decision within the next month of > so. > > Sydney Poore > > > On Wed, Oct 16, 2013 at 4:29 PM, Nathan <nawr...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Wed, Oct 16, 2013 at 4:11 PM, Sydney <sydney.po...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Yes, with the narrowing focus last year the community will need to take the > > lead. But from the meeting earlier this year it is clear that there > > definitely is talented people on staff at WMF who are more than willing to > > assist as their time permits. > > > That's unfortunate. I understood the narrowing focus to mean not > placing WMF offices and contractors around the world, or doing sort of > boots on the ground face to face outreach. Since usability initiatives > and some other programs are still ongoing, it seems like the gender > gap should've stayed on the table for direct involvement even if not > through the vehicle of the fellowship program. Too bad. > > That said, there are chapters who receive hundreds of thousands of > dollars in funding from the FDC despite having objectively achieved > very little to date; certainly that means there is an opportunity > there for people with an interest in dedicating themselves full time > to this work to be compensated fairly through a funded WMF affiliate. > > _______________________________________________ > Gendergap mailing list > Gendergap@lists.wikimedia.org > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/gendergap > > _______________________________________________ > Gendergap mailing list > Gendergap@lists.wikimedia.org > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/gendergap
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