@ Adethya:
Hii ! Thanks for your query and that you cared to ask.
The Women-only-conference will be on 12-13th Jan 2013, however we can or I
think we should have an after-party till 15th (i.e Wikipedia-Birthday)
wherein for the those two days(i.e 14th and 15th), male-Wikipedians and
friends are most Gladly Welcome :)
We now have to chart out programmes and *do let know* if you have*
Ideas*that can be executed on any of those two days.
@ Sudhanwa Jogalekar
Thanks Alot for your Support !
That is one reason of having thought of doing it in Pune, after discussing
places like Mumbai etc.. There are women editors and women campus
ambassadors who can be of Great help for the 'on-ground support'.
Regarding venue, since there are so many universities around, we shall be
optimistic about getting place for free. Your help will be needed :). We
will have to form a core-team and entrust work so that things get going
from now.
Am also planning to attend the meetup on 18th,Sat in Pune and hope to meet
more women contributors or members from Pune. Keenly looking forward to
have interesting and constructive discussion about the Conference
face-to-face with all members !!
On Wed, Aug 15, 2012 at 11:10 PM, Sudhanwa Jogalekar sudhanwa@gmail.com
wrote:
Dear Nikita,
Nice to know about the initiative and the event in Pune.
Wikipedians in/around Pune will be very happy to conduct the event.
We do have women editors in SNDT, Ranade institute, Jnanaprabodhini
school and some other places who will be really interested in the
event.
Please let us know about your ideas of the event. We can surely help
in organising things especially venue and other arrangements (that too
most likely free of cost)
Best regards
-Sudhanwa
On Wed, Aug 15, 2012 at 2:20 AM, nikita belavate niki8...@gmail.com
wrote:
Dear All,
Am very Glad and Honoured to tell you about the First of its kind,
Wiki-Women Conference to be held in India. We have been talking about the
huge gender imbalance among Wikipedia contributors (not unlike science,
technology, engineering, and mathematics fields). However the gender skew
seems particularly prominent here.
With the Aim of attracting and sustaining larger Women population, a
Conference for Women would be a Great place without any influence that
would
undermine the confidence(just a possibility) in any way from Male
contributors. With this agenda in mind The National Wiki-Women Conference
would be a two day Event (a weekend) in Pune. It has been a place of lot
of
historic reforms particularly in the field of Education with the
initiation
of Women-Education movement and establishment of the first Women's
school in
India. And this seems to be a Good place for the first Women's Conference
considering some other practicalities as well.
As per, User:Netha Hussain has created a Meta-page for the conference
Here .
Dates for the conference have been proposed as 12th-13th Jan 2013
tentatively on the eve of Wikipedia Birthday on 15th Jan. Followed by an
after-party till 15th which will be open for males. This will bring in
Wikipedians from different areas under one roof and make it a memorable
celebration ! The page will be developed as the programme shapes further
here-on.
Would be Great to carry the discussion further with your inputs about the
first Wiki-Women Conference in India. Look forward with sincere hope to
make
this happen and increase Indian women contributors and that Wikipedia
benefits from a wider and more divers community of contributors.
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