Alice, thank you. If your PEG request is funded, would you be interested in traveling to Seattle for an outreach event later this year?
Pine *This is an Encyclopedia* <https://www.wikipedia.org/> *One gateway to the wide garden of knowledge, where lies The deep rock of our past, in which we must delve The well of our future,The clear water we must leave untainted for those who come after us,The fertile earth, in which truth may grow in bright places, tended by many hands,And the broad fall of sunshine, warming our first steps toward knowing how much we do not know.* *—Catherine Munro* On Wed, Jan 21, 2015 at 2:16 PM, Alice Backer <[email protected]> wrote: > Announcing AfroCROWD Intro to Wikimedia and How to Edit Wikipedia > workshops at New York's Brooklyn Public Library. Please > also excuse cross-posting to various lists as we try to network across > the United States. > > WHEN: > Saturday, February 7th 12:30 -3PM > Sunday February 8th 1-3:30PM > > EVENTBRITE (better reading format): > > https://www.eventbrite.com/e/afrocrowd-intro-to-wikimedia-how-to-edit-wikipedia-101-tickets-15350655223 > > If you plan to view via Livestream from a different city, please let > me know of your interest at [email protected]. > > BROOKLYN PUBLIC LIBRARY ANNOUNCEMENT: > > http://bklynlib.org/15tFUph > > http://bklynlib.org/15tGPGd > > > > PROPOSAL: > > https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:PEG/AFROcroWd_and_Interglider.ORG/Outreach_to_Afrodescendant_community_in_US > ) > > > BACKGROUND: > Against the backdrop of Black History Month, the workshops seek to > further the International Decade for People of African Descent’s > development and education goals and Wikimedia’s goal of increasing its > reach. Technology companies Facebook, LinkedIn, Yahoo and Twitter have > recently reported that their workforce is 2% Black, a figure > non-proportionate to the 13% of Blacks living in the United States. > The Black Twitter phenomenon shows that Afrodescendants have > successfully taken to social media as an organizing tool. Exposing > more Afrodescendants to Wikimedia has the potential to take this foray > a step further and transfer skills that might deepen Afrodescendant > exploration of online technology. But beyond it all, editing Wikipedia > alone or as a group is a constructive and rewarding way to spend time > online. > > > > > The workshops will be the first in a series of activities by Afro Free > Culture Crowdsourcing Wikimedia (AfroCROWD), a new initiative which > seeks to increase the number of people of African Descent who actively > partake in the Wikimedia and free knowledge, culture and software > movements. 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. > > > > > > > Although the February workshops will be held in English, they will > take into account that many Afrodescendant groups in the United States > might find that access to Wikipedia’s multilingual crowdsourcing > platform can help them transfer free knowledge to populations of > African descent outside of the United States that they are connected > to through origin or direct familial bonds. Multilingual > Afrodescendants may also want to use such platforms to develop and > maintain online bodies of relevant knowledge in native languages such > as Garifuna, Haitian Kreyòl, Igbo, Spanish, Twi or Yoruba, thereby > contributing to the survival of and increasing their proficiency in > those languages while also feeling more culturally grounded. > > > > > > > WHERE: > Brooklyn Public Library > > Main Branch > > 10 Grand Army Plaza > > Brooklyn. NY > > http://www.bklynlibrary.org/ > > (Subway: 2,3, 4 to Grand Army Plaza) > > > > > FOUNDERS > > AfroCROWD founders are Alice Backer, founder of www.kiskeacity.com, > www.haitianbloggers.com, and Global Voices Lingua, a Brooklyn-based > lawyer, blogger and free knowledge and culture enthusiast who has been > aggregating and disseminating Haitian online expression since 2005 and > has launched citizen media campaigns in Haiti, the Caribbean, Africa > and the United States and Milos Rancic, founder of Anarchopedia, > veteran Wikimedian with over 10 years in the movement, Wikimedia > Language Committee member and chair of Interglider.ORG. Milica > Gudovic, Interglider.ORG's CEO, participant to the process of > localization of Creative Commons Licenses for Serbia and experienced > feminist activist of 20 years, has lended considerable time and > expertise to our grant proposal and will help us with training in the > coming months. > > > > > > > STAY UPDATED VIA FACEBOOK: > https://www.facebook.com/afroCROWD > > > > A L I C E B A C K E R > Haitian Blog Aggregator: http://haitianbloggers.com > LOF1804 Podcast: http://www.kiskeacity.com > Blog: http://www.kiskeacity.com > Twitter: http://twitter.com/kiskeacity > Newsletter: Kiskeácity Daily > skype: alicebacker > > _______________________________________________ > Wikimedia-Cascadia mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-cascadia >
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