On Wed, Apr 20, 2011 at 13:06, steve virgin <st...@mediafocusuk.com> wrote: > In terms of this discussion about breaking down diversity barriers, we’ve > had some limited success with the two events we have ran in Bristol > recently: > > http://uk.wikimedia.org/wiki/Bristol_Wiki_Academy_1 (March 19) > > http://uk.wikimedia.org/wiki/WikiConference_UK_2011 (April 16) > > A large number of women students etc attended the Academy (about half of the > 20 present) and they came mainly from this group in the URL below: > > http://bristolgirlgeekdinners.com/ (you’ll notice they kindly publicised our > AGM on the front page of their website) > > We also saw one or two from the same group at the AGM – I believe they are > now members of Wikimedia UK (so welcome if you are reading this) > > I think we have a ‘regional opportunity’ to reach out and diversify our > membership base here. I urge other Wikipedians to look for similar groups > across the country and to go and talk to them about our work and invite them > to collaborate on events together, as we undoubtedly hold a lot in common in > terms of mutual interest. >
There are Girl Geek Dinner groups across Britain: London, Brighton, Nottingham, Manchester, Leeds, Hull, Reading, Bristol, Oxford, Winchester, South Yorkshire, Plymouth, Dorset and Birmingham. I've added that list to the Institutional outreach page: http://uk.wikimedia.org/wiki/Institutional_outreach I've also posted on Twitter saying that WMUK may be interested in doing events/outreach with the London GGD community. Any ideas where we can run Wikimedia Academy events in London? I was talking to someone on IRC who suggested collaborating with coworking spaces. Alternatively, it would be very useful if, especially in London, there were a few standard places we could use to run outreach-focussed Wikimedia Academy/editathon type events. Any ideas? -- Tom Morris <http://tommorris.org/> Please don't print this e-mail out unless you want a hard copy of it. If you do, go ahead. I won't stop you. _______________________________________________ Wikimedia UK mailing list wikimediau...@wikimedia.org http://mail.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediauk-l WMUK: http://uk.wikimedia.org
