User:Psychoslave/wikimedia convention 2018

Welcome and Orientation
María Cruz introduce the conference, and indicate targeted issues.

The question "what does it meant to learn" is raised. An indication is provided that there will be a focus on:
 * affiliates and collaboration with institutions;
 * measure outcomes & tools to achieve measurable evolution.

Each participant will provide feedback on each session around three poles:
 * 1) liked the best in the session
 * 2) would suggest for next time
 * 3) will do differently in the next 30 day based on this session

The session then focused on woman leadership, starting with a brief history of leadership in the Wikimedia movement. The announced goal on this topic is to support leaders to help them make efficient actions. 300 people were identified as leader and integrated into this process.

Although there is still large place for improvement, some women already reported that they felt the Wikimedia movement as a more welcoming place than most work places or other places with a male predominance.

Still, our projects should be more welcoming, with more room for multiple trial and fail, and more guidance on the road toward qualitative contributions.

How to bring and preserve more female contributor remains an open challenge.

A pair working was then launched, during which misc. related projects where evoked, like:
 * Art+Feminism User Group
 * Wikiwomen Taiwan which organize monthly events

Some current state of affair were highlighted like:
 * fewer women board members
 * there is no clear path to leadership
 * online and offline leadership are significantly different

Some evoked challenges where:
 * underestimating scope of work
 * friendly environment
 * distribution of power

In conclusion this session was a good incentive to learn more on the topic of women in the Wikimedia community.

See also
 * Learning and Evaluation/News/Learning Days for Wikimedia Conference 2018
 * Communications/Resource_center
 * Community Engagement/Leadership Development Dialogue
 * WoFOSS], Women in Free and Open Source Software in Taiwan