Building Female-Friendly Communities

[aubriejohnson]

Project Lead:@aubriejohnson

Mentor:@esylvan

Welcome to OL6, Cohort E! This issue will be used to track your project and progress during the program. Please use this checklist over the next few weeks as you start Open Leadership Training :tada:.

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Before Week 1 (Sept 13): Your first mentorship call

• [x] Complete the OLF self-assessment (online, printable). If you're a group, each teammate should complete this assessment individually. This is here to help you set your own personal goals during the program. No need to share your results, but be ready to share your thoughts with your mentor.
• [x] Make sure you know when and how you'll be meeting with your mentor.

Before Week 2 (Sept 20): First Cohort Call (Open by Design)

• [x] Complete Assignment 'Write Your Vision or Mission Statement'. Leave a comment on this issue with your draft vision statement & be ready to share this on the call.
• [x] Watch 'Mozilla & Working Open'.
• [x] Check the Syllabus for notes and connection info for all the cohort calls.

Before Week 3 (Sept 27): Mentorship call

• [x] Look up two other projects and comment on their issues with feedback on their vision statement.
• [x] Complete your Open Canvas (instructions, canvas). Comment on this issue with a link to your canvas.
• [x] Start your Roadmap. Comment on this issue with your draft Roadmap.

Before Week 4 (Oct 4): Cohort Call (Build for Understanding)

• [ ] Look up two other projects and comment on their issues with feedback on their open canvas.
• [ ] Pick an open license for the work you're doing during the program.
• [x] Use your canvas to start writing a README, or landing page, for your project. Link to your README in a comment on this issue.

This issue is here to help you keep track of work during the first month of the program. Please refer to the OL6 Syllabus for more detailed weekly notes and assignments past week 4.

[aubriejohnson]

Draft: I’m working with female and female-identifying Wikimedia consumers to increase participation in Wikipedia worldwide so that underserved women can participate more fully in free knowledge movements and campaigns.

[eebigger]

I find this an exciting and needed proposal, and want to ensure females and female identifying contributors feel comfortable in my project as well! What are some ways that you may be brainstorming about to increase participation?

[aubriejohnson]

My Open Canvas is here :)

[aubriejohnson]

@eebigger I'm planning to be on a lot of channels, for one! Slack, Insta, WhatsApp and a few other private chat apps. I'm also trying to build the community quickly in the coming weeks by having it serve as a help desk. Will write more on this later; I'm in between meetings :)

[eebigger]

Sounds Excellent @aubriejohnson!

[bmuenzenmeyer]

This is an important project - equal representation leads to better content, compassion and decision making. Wish you well in your endeavor!

[aubriejohnson]

Thank you, @bmuenzenmeyer! BTW, link to my Roadmap is here cc: @esylvan. 💃

[tejasri19]

Hey @aubriejohnson ! Your idea sounds great. I suggest to use Telegram app as well for user and contributor channels. You find lot of groups there. Wish you a great success in your work.

[withshubh]

Draft: I’m working with female and female-identifying Wikimedia consumers to increase participation in Wikipedia worldwide so that underserved women can participate more fully in free knowledge movements and campaigns.

Hi, Liked your draft, We are also working on somewhat similar project to aware school and university students about Open Source & Mozilla and Our aim is also to promote women participation more in technical activities in Guna region.

[bmuenzenmeyer]

@aubriejohnson I read through your open canvas and liked the clear presentation. I found the tool to be a nice way to create a structured defensible solution to your problem .

I was wondering why you identified Quora editors as a contributor profile. Have you identified Quora as a community where females feel more comfortable contributing? Frankly, I'd never thought about it. Another potential avenue of partnership may be Girl Develop It chapters. Not sure if that fits into the canvas somewhere, but as I understand it they are a thriving community and wikipedia participation might go hand in hand with coding participation.

Thanks again!