Wikipedia:Meetup/Boston/Fall 2018 Women in Computing

Schedule

 * 12:00p-1:00p - Lunch, Wikipedia introduction and editing class
 * 1:00p-3:30p - edit-a-thon -- work on articles: get one-on-one help from experienced Wikipedia editors, librarians and writing instructors. Use MIT Library resources to add citations and information.
 * 3:30p-4:00p - edit-a-thon discussion and report-out

What we did
List your edits here!
 * Added short bibliography to Frances E. Allen, --Ctanguay (talk) 17:51, 2 November 2018 (UTC)
 * es:Lupe Valdez
 * improved Cynthia Barnhart
 * wrote Asuman Özdağlar
 * Added a citation to Nancy_Lynch and started breaking the article into sections -Jfcarrano (talk) 19:31, 2 November 2018 (UTC)

Participant List

 * phoebe / (talk to me) 19:12, 25 September 2018 (UTC)
 * Gkuriger (talk) 20:45, 25 September 2018 (UTC)
 * Girona7 (talk) 19:41, 24 October 2018 (UTC)
 * Rtbhive (talk) 21:58, 24 October 2018 (UTC)
 * Jfcarrano (talk) 16:37, 2 November 2018 (UTC)
 * Ctanguay (talk) 16:57, 2 November 2018 (UTC)
 * Deemariedelgado (talk) 17:50, 2 November 2018 (UTC)
 * Hypoborean (talk) 17:58, 2 November 2018 (UTC)
 * Paciamor (talk) 18:08, 2 November 2018 (UTC)
 * Turnator (talk) 19:16, 2 November 2018 (UTC)
 * Dianeew (talk) 19:40, 2 November 2018 (UTC)

Topics to work on

 * Women in computing

Examples of specific things to do
Work on articles about women scientists & engineers and their work:

Work on various topics:
 * Find current statistics for Women_in_engineering
 * Improve articles about CS conferences: List_of_computer_science_conferences (common fixes: ensure that the website is current; history of locations; publisher of conference; describe topics)
 * Anything to add to List of important publications in computer science?
 * As a random idea, perhaps add non-traditionally young/active personal photos? "People in the field, they don't look like me" is a well-known barrier for engineering students from non-traditional populations.  What I've not seen discussed, is that for kids, "they look so old" can also be a barrier to identification.  And "I was inspired to become an engineer, when I met one, and she " stories reoccur.  Attending to appearance and age can be fraught.  But in addition to the usual "mature professional gravitas" headshots, perhaps recruitment would be aided by "and here's a picture of them having fun as a graduate student".  Or... reading with a cat?  As from the "thanks everyone - it was a blast" slides at the end of thesis defenses (unusually extensive in MIT microbiology).  An MIT AeroAstro graduating-cohort photo was useful for a middle-school student interested in astro, both for its gender and racial accessibility, but also for showing a tight crew, dressed to party, having fun.

MIT Libraries Resources:
 * EECS Resources libguide
 * EECS new books - contains online resources
 * DSpace@MIT - MIT’s institutional repository. Includes Open Access papers by MIT faculty and over 14,000 MIT theses
 * Women and underrepresented minorities in computing ebook at MIT Libraries
 * Vertical files from the MIT Institute Archives and Special Collections and a selection of books will be on site

Categories:
 * category:Women mathematicians
 * Category:Women computer scientists