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From: Srravya C <srravya.c@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Fri, Mar 14, 2014 at 9:32 PM
Subject: [FSFTN] Wiki Women Workshop on Women's Day
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On International Women's Day (March 8), a Wikipedia Workshop for Women was
conducted at College of Engineering, Guindy, (CEG) Anna University. It was
jointly organized by Free Software Foundation, Tamil Nadu (FSFTN) and CEG's
GNU/Linux Users Group (CEGLUG).
Conducted as an all-girls workshop, the workshop was attended by 40
students from the Departments of Computer Science and Engineering (CSE) and
Information Science and Technology (IST).
The one day workshop was aimed at encouraging women to contribute to
Wikipedia and thereby reducing the current gender bias.
The participants were not only taught how to contribute to Wikipedia but
also about the importance of their contributions and how they can make a
difference.
The session was handled by Mr. Sibi from Free Software Foundation, Tamil
Nadu. At the end of the session, the participants were encouraged to start
contributing to Wikipedia as well as its sister projects. The feedback
collected showed positive response and a few had requested for follow up
sessions.
The Wikimedia Commons link to images taken on the day of the workshop,
http://goo.gl/lNpFRP
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