Grants:PEG/The Ada Initiative/HOWTO Encourage Women in Open Technology and Culture

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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

Writer's time: USD 10,000

Project scope

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

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

We assume the Wikimedia foundation would like to publicize and host the document, but these aren't requirements.

Fit to strategy

This project will increase the number of people who feel comfortable editing Wikipedia.

Other benefits

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

If people frequently refer to the expanded HOWTO in Wikipedia discussions, then we consider this project a success.

Team members (optional)

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!