If someone started "WomenCROWD" it would be interesting to see if the other "Crowd" meetups would support it. (AfroCROWD, HaitiCROWD, AfroLatinoCROWD, AfricaCROWD) Not that I think it's necessary, but it would be interesting to see the reaction. And I am curious as to what pushback they might have gotten and how they handled it. But being banned from the site, I'm reluctant to use the email function to ask involved individuals. Maybe I'll just ask politely via twitter? Others can too, if you are curious...

On 3/23/2015 11:25 AM, Neotarf wrote:
That's interesting:

"The workshops are open to all Afrodescendants including but not limited to individuals who self-identify as African, African-American, Afro-Latino, Biracial, Black, Black-American, Caribbean, Garifuna, Haitian or West Indian."

I've never seen editithons that exclude people before. I've been to a couple of black history events, and all were welcomed, although of course there was a very high proportion of African descent. Likewise, the women's editing events I have attended have been very welcoming to men, although as you would expect, there is a very high attendance level for women.



On Sat, Mar 21, 2015 at 12:37 PM, Carol Moore dc <carolmoor...@verizon.net <mailto:carolmoor...@verizon.net>> wrote:

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Meetup/NYC/Wikipedia_Day_2015

    Wikipedia Day NYC 2015 is a celebration and mini-conference for
    the project's 14th birthday,* to be held on Sunday March 22, 2015,
    hosted at Barnard College starting at 10:00 am, and also supported
    by Wikimedia New York City and fellow Free Culture Alliance NYC
    partners.

    There are various events, sessions, talks, etc. Nothing women
    oriented but I do see involvement by a new  NYC meetup group:
    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Meetup/NYC/AfroCrowd";

    Talk page hasn't even been opened yet to comment on its goal: "to
    increase the number of people of African Descent who actively
    partake in the Wikimedia and free knowledge, culture and software
    movements."  I guess meetups targeted on certain groups are less
    controversial than task forces.



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