Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Fwd: Meeting to plan wiki workshop for women - Sunday 16 Sept

2012-09-15 Thread Bishakha Datta
Thanks, both - we need all the encouragement we can get.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Meetup/Mumbai/Mumbai18

Do sign up here, and the meetup is open to all genders, not just to women.

Cheers and more after we meet,
Bishakha

On Fri, Sep 14, 2012 at 11:31 PM, Netha Hussain nethahuss...@gmail.comwrote:

 +1 Srikanth.

  Great initiative, Bishakha! All the best!

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 User: Netha Hussain

 On Fri, Sep 14, 2012 at 10:57 PM, Srikanth Ramakrishnan 
 parakara.gh...@gmail.com wrote:

 All the very best Bishakha. I hope the number of women editors increases
 by a considerable margin!
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Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Fwd: Meeting to plan wiki workshop for women - Sunday 16 Sept

2012-09-14 Thread Srikanth Ramakrishnan
All the very best Bishakha. I hope the number of women editors increases by
a considerable margin!
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On Fri, Sep 14, 2012 at 3:30 PM, Bishakha Datta bishakhada...@gmail.comwrote:



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 From: Bishakha Datta bishakhada...@gmail.com
 Date: Fri, Sep 14, 2012 at 3:29 PM
 Subject: Meeting to plan wiki workshop for women - Sunday 16 Sept
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 Dear all,

 Sorry for the short notice, but was trying to get enough women editors
 from Mumbai involved and find a venue - both are on track now, so this can
 happen.

 Am writing to invite the Mumbai wp community to an informal meeting Sunday
 16 Sept to plan a wiki academy or workshop for women in Mumbai.

 Here is where I am coming from: In my day job, I run a non-profit called Point
 of View http://www.pointofview.org, which promotes the points of view
 of women through media, art and culture. In this capacity and others, I
 routinely come across women, including other NGOs working with women, and
 with women bloggers and others active on social media. Many of them have
 expressed a tentative interest in editing wikipedia, but are stuck at this
 place. Pranav and I visited one such org in Mumbai earlier this year, but
 it's too time-consuming going org by org.

 Instead, I propose that we start with an introductory workshop for
 interested individuals/organizations and then perhaps follow up with those
 who are more interested...hoping to do the introductory workshop sometime
 in November. And hoping that each of you can similarly invite interested
 women to the Nov workshop.

 This is a working meeting devoted to planning this workshop. If you would
 like to be part of it and help reduce the gender gap at wikipedia, please
 do come!

 The meeting will be held at 4 pm on Sunday 16 Sept at Pinstorm's office
 (many thanks, Netra for offering us this facility).
 *Pinstorm, Swati Bldg,
 North Avenue,
 Santa Cruz (W)
 Bombay 400 054
 Phone: +91 22 6739 3888*

 There is a map here http://www.pinstorm.com/contact_us.htm.

 Cheers
 Bishakha


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