Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] For Netha Re: Wikimediaindia-l Digest, Vol 179, Issue 1
Hi Harriet, Thank you for the mail. I was asked by the participants if India would be willing to host the WikiWomencamp next year. I did not reply positively as there were only around 5 women in India at present who would be willing to take part in the organisation process. For an international camp, we would require the presence of at least 20 women, out of which at least 3 of them should be residing at the national capital to take care of the visa requirements. If you know a group of women who would be happy to assist us in organising the camp, I will be happy to put you in touch with Beria Lima and Laura Hale, the organisers of the WikiWomenCamp. Looking forward to hear from you! Netha Hussain On Sun, May 27, 2012 at 10:51 AM, Outofindia outofin...@gmail.com wrote: Netha Awesome to hear from you! Like the others, will wait to hear the details. Count me in for any WikiWomenCamp India! Mangalore is close enough and if anyone wants to organise anything here..I will be happy to coordinate and organise. Harriet Harriet Vidyasagar www.outofindia.net www.womenofindia.net INDIA: 91-99011 66276 USA: 1-301-649-2240 On Sun, May 27, 2012 at 5:30 PM, wikimediaindia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org wrote: Send Wikimediaindia-l mailing list submissions to wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to wikimediaindia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org You can reach the person managing the list at wikimediaindia-l-ow...@lists.wikimedia.org When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific than Re: Contents of Wikimediaindia-l digest... Today's Topics: 1. WikiWomenCamp and WikiGenero-Buenos Aires,Participation (Netha Hussain) 2. Re: WikiWomenCamp and WikiGenero-Buenos Aires,Participation (Bishakha Datta) 3. Re: on WCI, the report, and more (Bishakha Datta) 4. Re: WikiWomenCamp and WikiGenero-Buenos Aires,Participation (Anirudh Bhati) 5. Re: WikiWomenCamp and WikiGenero-Buenos Aires,Participation (Netha Hussain) -- Message: 1 Date: Sat, 26 May 2012 19:56:22 -0300 From: Netha Hussain nethahuss...@gmail.com To: Wikimedia India Community list wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Subject: [Wikimediaindia-l] WikiWomenCamp and WikiGenero-Buenos Aires, Participation Message-ID: CACP3XfpPwCSL0ar5vrgCf30= 2lja53kmj3au00uz+ysqlim...@mail.gmail.com Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Hola! Greetings from Buenos Aires! I am User: Netha Hussain (1), writing from Buenos Aires, Argentina. I was lucky to represent India in the WikiWomenCamp (2) and WikiGenero held here from 23-26 May 2012. My travel and accommodation were sponsored by Wikimedia Germany and Wikimedia Austria. The past four days had been fabulous, and I enjoyed being in the company of amazing women from different parts of the world. The conference was held in open space format with no agenda. Open space technology is called the 'wiki-way' of conducting conference as ideas are created by the way of discussing in groups and accepting contributions from all participants. I loved this, and I think we must try and use this methodology in Indian conferences too. We discussed about many issues which are primarily of concern to women, including mapping gender issues, edit-wars, GLAM, attracting women to Wikiprojects etc (3). We learned about the many projects launched in different countries for the increasing the participation of women in administration. I could present the Indian perspective of issues at the conference. Most participants were amazed to know about the diversity of Indian languages. I also spoke about the WikiConf-Mumbai 2011 and the results of the gendergap session organized in the conference. The working of the chapter was also explained, but it was disappointing to reveal that we did not have had any women member in the chapter ever since. We created a private mailing list for women to get support when dealing with harassment, took steps to create WikiChix, decided to print books on perspectives of women in various countries and discussed about conducting a WikiWomencamp with more participants the coming year. At WikiGenero which happened on 26th May, Sue Gardner delivered a keynote address which was very inspiring. The news about the camp was published in local newspapers. The notes are available on meta and photos on commons(4). At the conference, I could build contacts with many women from different parts of the world. I could learn many new things could also share my knowledge. It was a highly rewarding experience. (1) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Netha_Hussain
[Wikimediaindia-l] For Netha Re: Wikimediaindia-l Digest, Vol 179, Issue 1
Netha Awesome to hear from you! Like the others, will wait to hear the details. Count me in for any WikiWomenCamp India! Mangalore is close enough and if anyone wants to organise anything here..I will be happy to coordinate and organise. Harriet Harriet Vidyasagar www.outofindia.net www.womenofindia.net INDIA: 91-99011 66276 USA: 1-301-649-2240 On Sun, May 27, 2012 at 5:30 PM, wikimediaindia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org wrote: Send Wikimediaindia-l mailing list submissions to wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to wikimediaindia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org You can reach the person managing the list at wikimediaindia-l-ow...@lists.wikimedia.org When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific than Re: Contents of Wikimediaindia-l digest... Today's Topics: 1. WikiWomenCamp and WikiGenero-Buenos Aires,Participation (Netha Hussain) 2. Re: WikiWomenCamp and WikiGenero-Buenos Aires,Participation (Bishakha Datta) 3. Re: on WCI, the report, and more (Bishakha Datta) 4. Re: WikiWomenCamp and WikiGenero-Buenos Aires,Participation (Anirudh Bhati) 5. Re: WikiWomenCamp and WikiGenero-Buenos Aires,Participation (Netha Hussain) -- Message: 1 Date: Sat, 26 May 2012 19:56:22 -0300 From: Netha Hussain nethahuss...@gmail.com To: Wikimedia India Community list wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Subject: [Wikimediaindia-l] WikiWomenCamp and WikiGenero-Buenos Aires, Participation Message-ID: CACP3XfpPwCSL0ar5vrgCf30=2lja53kmj3au00uz+ysqlim...@mail.gmail.com Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Hola! Greetings from Buenos Aires! I am User: Netha Hussain (1), writing from Buenos Aires, Argentina. I was lucky to represent India in the WikiWomenCamp (2) and WikiGenero held here from 23-26 May 2012. My travel and accommodation were sponsored by Wikimedia Germany and Wikimedia Austria. The past four days had been fabulous, and I enjoyed being in the company of amazing women from different parts of the world. The conference was held in open space format with no agenda. Open space technology is called the 'wiki-way' of conducting conference as ideas are created by the way of discussing in groups and accepting contributions from all participants. I loved this, and I think we must try and use this methodology in Indian conferences too. We discussed about many issues which are primarily of concern to women, including mapping gender issues, edit-wars, GLAM, attracting women to Wikiprojects etc (3). We learned about the many projects launched in different countries for the increasing the participation of women in administration. I could present the Indian perspective of issues at the conference. Most participants were amazed to know about the diversity of Indian languages. I also spoke about the WikiConf-Mumbai 2011 and the results of the gendergap session organized in the conference. The working of the chapter was also explained, but it was disappointing to reveal that we did not have had any women member in the chapter ever since. We created a private mailing list for women to get support when dealing with harassment, took steps to create WikiChix, decided to print books on perspectives of women in various countries and discussed about conducting a WikiWomencamp with more participants the coming year. At WikiGenero which happened on 26th May, Sue Gardner delivered a keynote address which was very inspiring. The news about the camp was published in local newspapers. The notes are available on meta and photos on commons(4). At the conference, I could build contacts with many women from different parts of the world. I could learn many new things could also share my knowledge. It was a highly rewarding experience. (1) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Netha_Hussain (2) http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/WikiWomenCamp (3) http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/WikiWomenCamp/Agenda (4) http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:WikiWomenCamp_2012 Gracias! Sincerely Netha Hussain -- Netha Hussain Student of Medicine and Surgery Govt. Medical College, Kozhikode Blogs : *nethahussain.blogspot.com swethaambari.wordpress.com* -- next part -- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikimediaindia-l/attachments/20120526/8b73e126/attachment-0001.html -- Message: 2 Date: Sun, 27 May 2012 10:39:58 +0530 From: Bishakha Datta bishakhada...@gmail.com To: Wikimedia India Community list wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Subject: Re: [Wikimediaindia-l]
