Re: [Gendergap] I'd like to hear about the Ally Skills Workshop

2015-07-27 Thread Siko Bouterse
The grantee will be reporting back post-grant, so suggest watching here for stats, outcomes from the post-event survey, etc: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:PEG/Ada_Initiative/Gender-gap_admin_training I sometimes find that at events where uncomfortable topics are discussed and

Re: [Gendergap] I'd like to hear about the Ally Skills Workshop

2015-07-24 Thread Luis Villa
I suspect it was just time pressures rather than a conspiracy of silence, Risker :) I certainly thought it was worthwhile and useful, and would have been happy to chat about it if you'd asked. Obviously we need to think about scaling and impact if we want to do more of it, but I think that's

Re: [Gendergap] I'd like to hear about the Ally Skills Workshop

2015-07-24 Thread Risker
Thanks, Luis. It was a bit hard to tell from the promotion of the event if there would be 10 or 100 participants, so I wasn't sure if it was just that I hadn't run into anyone or if...well, you know...like Fight Club... In any case, one of the participants, who wishes to remain unnamed, sent me

[Gendergap] I'd like to hear about the Ally Skills Workshop

2015-07-23 Thread Risker
What it says on the tin. Even though I was present at Wikimania, I heard very, very little about the Ally Skills workshop, even when I asked participants about it. (In fact I don't think I got a straight answer to a single question about it.) Given the interest about this workshop on this list,