Grants:PEG/The Ada Initiative/HOWTO Encourage Women in Open Technology and Culture
- Legal name of chapter or nonchapter group
- N/A
- Grant contact name
- Valerie Aurora
- Grant contact username or email
- valerie@adainitiative.org
- Grant contact title (position)
- Executive Director
- Project lead name
- Valerie Aurora
- Project lead username or email
- valerie@adainitiative.org
- Project lead title (position), if any
- Writer
- Full project name
- HOWTO Encourage Women in Open Technology and Culture
- Amount requested (USD assumed if no other currency stated)
- 10,000
- Provisional target start date
- March 1, 2012
- Provisional completion date
- May 1, 2012
Budget breakdown[edit]
- Writer's time: USD 10,000
Project scope[edit]
Expand and update HOWTO Encourage Women and Linux so that it encompasses Wikipedia and other open technology and culture projects as well as Linux. The document will stay focused on concrete everyday actions that individual community members can take. The document will be licensed CC-BY-SA.
Project goal[edit]
The goal of this project is to increase the participation of women in Wikipedia in all roles. As a side effect, it will likely increase overall participation, since often the things that discourage women disproportionately also discourage all people, just at lower rates for non-women.
Non-financial requirements[edit]
We assume the Wikimedia foundation would like to publicize and host the document, but these aren't requirements.
Fit to strategy[edit]
This project will increase the number of people who feel comfortable editing Wikipedia.
Other benefits[edit]
The Wikimedia Foundation will be acknowledged as a sponsor of the document in both the document itself and on the Ada Initiative web site.
Measures of success[edit]
If people frequently refer to the expanded HOWTO in Wikipedia discussions, then we consider this project a success.
Team members (optional)[edit]
Ada Initiative staff:
- Valerie Aurora, Executive Director, original author of the HOWTO Encourage Women in Linux
- Mary Gardiner, Director of operations, major Geek Feminism wiki and blog contributor
Ada Initiative community members:
- We expect extensive review by Ada Initiative advisors and supporters
Wikimedia community members: we hope for input from as many Wikipedia editors as possible, GenderGap mailing list participants, Wikimedia fellows, and hopefully Sarah Stierch in what time she has free!