Hi girls.

I agree with Netha, a women lunch is not enought. We must organize almost 1 day (first or after) on a Wikimedia great event, where the participation is greater (and this seems to be Wikimania).

A big hug to all of you😘,

Camelia

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2017-11-14 10:46 GMT+01:00 Netha Hussain <nethahussain@gmail.com>:

Dear Anna,

Thank you for following up with the WikiWomenCamp! 

The conversations from WikiWomenCamp have continued at Diversity Conference in Stockholm, where a significant number of talks, discussions and informal meetups were about gender diversity, friendly spaces and equity. Some of the participants from WikiWomenCamp who attended Diversity conference were Carmen, Rosie, Camelia, Jaime, Marti and me. The formal discussions at the conference were meticulously summarized, and you can read them here.

The next best opportunity for continuing the conversation, I think, is Wikimania 2018. A pre-conference is a very good idea, and we should aim to make it happen. It doesn't have to be a two day event if the planning, logistics etc are hard to take care of, it is okay to schedule it as a half-day event, too. Several awesome women attend Wikimania every year, so getting the participants to South Africa will not be much of a problem. In having organized WikiWomen's lunch for some years now, I have a strong feeling that lunch meetups are too short to make meaningful conversations happen. We need to plan for something that involves longer, structured conversations and careful documentation. 

I am interested in listening to what others think about this idea.

Regards

Netha

On 13 November 2017 at 16:47, Anna Torres <de@wikimedia.org.ar> wrote:

Dear all, 

First of all, apologies as I am reaching to you very late. As you know I am also de ED of Wikimedia Argentina and post Wikimania we had the FDC process and a site visit...and after that "life pendings" that were also important.

However and also knowing that some of you were in Stockholm I wanted to send you this pending email with some comments on "how to move on" that we talked about it back in Wikimania. 

The main points we talked were:

* We all agreed that was great meeting us and that would be great to do it more often. However WMF told us that there are not funds to replicate a WWC every year. Maybe a great option can be "a pre-conference" format before WIkimania (that was how North-America Conference happened ¿?)

* We analyzed the results of the survey. I want you all to know that I worked closely with Sara and share with her your comments in order to improve/do better some issues at the the Diversity Conference.

* @Moriel proposed to create different local support-networks to help us out during 2018 and see if a system like this may work for us? Please Moriel, can you explain it better ?

* Any of you attending to Diversity Conference. Any idea/project you feel we could all work together?

*Any other idea we can work as a network this year? Would it help to organize a hangout?

Thanks again and sorry for this late email!

Hugs!

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A.C. Wikimedia Argentina

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