Wikipedia:Meetup/San Jose/Cisco/January 2017

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Wiki Tech Women at Cisco

As part of its Women In Technology Professional Development Series (WiT), Cisco Systems is hosting a Wikipedia presentation and edit-a-thon on January 19, 2017. The event will focus on orienting attendees to Wikipedia's gender gap -both content and editorship- especially relating to women in technology. The event is open to Cisco staff, and invited guests. Lunch is provided courtesy of Cisco.

Training:
 * Username account creation
 * Notability
 * Reliable sources
 * Hands-on how to edit, improve, expand existing articles
 * Hands-on new article creation

Goals:


 * To encourage inexperienced editors (especially women) and show them how they can contribute to Wikipedia
 * To improve a selection of Wikipedia articles related to women in technology
 * To increase awareness of systemic bias

RSVP
Attendees:
 * Rosiestep (talk) 19:56, 10 January 2017 (UTC)
 * ''Rehana Rehman
 * Serpil Bayraktar
 * Alli Walton (participating remotely)
 * further registration occurred through the Cisco system

Worklists
Attendees should feel free to add the names of notable women in technology who need a better Wikipedia presence. The provided lists are not intended to be comprehensive, but rather to provide a starting point for work by event participants.

Lists of gaps

 * Computer scientists (This page contains a list of women who have a biography on another language Wikipedia, but not on English Wikipedia.)
 * Engineering (This page contains a list of women who have a biography on another language Wikipedia, but not on English Wikipedia.)
 * Technology (This page contains a "crowd-sourced" list of women who don't have a biography on English Wikipedia.)
 * List of Women in Technology International Hall of Fame inductees

Articles needing improvement

 * - This list contains over 300 women's biographies which need expansion or improvement, including:
 * Susanne Albers - we'll expand the lede paragraph
 * Nina Amenta - we'll add Authority Control, which will link her to structured data; and we'll add a header
 * Cecilia R. Aragon - we'll expand the lede paragraph
 * Gillian Arnold (technologist) - fix a typo in the lede, add a wikilink, and add italics.
 * Winifred Asprey - we'll improve a reference
 * Stella Atkins - we'll add first name per VIAF; add punctuation
 * Henriette Avram - we'll update the article status
 * add others here

Specific requests
Add names here; include reference link, if possible.
 * Deborah Mills-Scofield
 * Ina Minei
 * Margaret Chiosi
 * Jeanne Beliveau-Dunn, Cisco Systems, VP/GM, CEO of the IoT Talent Consortium
 * Barbara Paulson, Macie Roberts, Helen Ling, Sue Finley - Pioneers in space exploration, rocket science, computer science, and engineering at Jet Propulsion Laboratories. ,

Women in Technology International Hall of Fame inductees

 * Linda Sanford (1953–), IBM Enterprise Transformation (see also Linda Sanford's Oral History Interview)
 * Dr. Cheryl L. Shavers (1953–), Under Secretary for Technology, US Commerce Department (1999–2001)
 * Pamela Meyer Lopker, Founder, President and Chairman of the Board, QAD Inc., an Enterprise Resource Planning / manufacturing software company
 * Shaunna Sowell, former Vice President & Manager of Worldwide semiconductor Facilities, Texas Instruments
 * Patricia Wallington, former Corporate Vice President and CIO, Xerox Corporation
 * Julie Spicer England former Vice President, Texas Instruments, Incorporated General Manager, RFid Systems
 * Sherita T. Ceasar, Vice President Product Engineering Planning and Strategy, Comcast Communications
 * Dr. Claudine Simson, former Executive Vice President, Chief Technology Officer, LSI Corporation; current Director & Business Development Executive, Research and IP, Worldwide Growth Markets, IBM Corporation
 * Yukako Uchinaga, Vice President, IBM's Yamato Software Development Laboratory (see also Yukako Uchinaga's Oral History Interview
 * Janet Perna, former General Manager of Information Management Solutions at [IBM] specializing in Distributed database systems / IBM DB2 (see also Janet Perna's oral history)
 * Darlene Solomon, Senior Vice President, Chief Technology Officer, Agilent Technologies specializing in Bio-analytical and electronic measurement
 * Dr. Caroline Kovac, former General Manager, IBM Healthcare and Life Sciences (see also Caroline Kovac's oral history)
 * Shirley C. McCarty, aerospace consultant
 * Eileen Gail de Planque, Ph.D. (1944–2010), expert on environmental radiation measurements; first woman and first health physicist to become a Nuclear Regulatory Commission Commissioner; technical areas of expertise include solid state dosimetry, radiation transport and shielding, environmental radiation, nuclear facilities monitoring and problems of reactor and personnel dosimetry
 * Barbara Bauer, technology innovation, software development, global management
 * Sandra Burke Ph.D., cardiovascular physiologist, former pre-clinical cardiovascular researcher at Abbott Vascular's Research and Advanced Development; developed drug-coated stent intravascular stents for treatment of restenosis
 * Melendy Lovett, senior vice president of Texas Instruments; President of Texas Instruments's worldwide Education Technology business; STEM education and workforce advocate, High-Tech High Heels (HTHH)
 * Neerja Raman, global manufacturing and poverty. Senior Research Fellow, Stanford University; Advisor, Committee for Cyber-Infrastructure, National Science Foundation; formerly HP Labs
 * Maria Azua, former IBM Vice President of Advanced Cloud Solutions, former IBM VP of Technology & Innovation; patent in Transcoder technology, Java implementation and enhancements, data manipulation
 * Nor Rae Spohn, former SVP Hewlett-Packard LaserJet Printing Business
 * Dr. Been-Jon Woo, Director, Technology Integration & Development, Intel
 * Dr. Carolyn Turbyfill, VP Engineering, Stacksafe
 * Susie Wee, CTO, Cisco Systems; former CTO, Client Cloud Services, HP Labs. Focus on streaming media; co-edited JPSEC standard for JPEG-2000 image security  (see also TED TEDxBayArea Women talk)
 * Alicia Abella, Ph.D., Executive Director, Innovative Services Research, AT&T Labs; Member, President's Advisory Commission on Educational Excellence for Hispanics
 * Sophie V. Vandebroek, Ph.D., CTO and President, Xerox Innovation Group, Xerox Corporation
 * Joanne Martin, Ph.D. (1947–). Served on management team that developed and delivered IBM's first supercomputer, with specific responsibility for the performance measurement and analysis of the system. Distinguished Engineer and VP of Technology, IBM Corporation
 * Marian Croak, Senior Vice President of Applications & Services Infrastructure at AT&T Labs
 * Lisa McVey, CIO of Enterprise Information Systems, Enterprise Medical Imaging, Automation, McKesson Corporation
 * Laura Sanders, General Manager of Delivery Engineering & Technology and CTO for Global Technology Services, IBM Corporation
 * Cheemin Bo-Linn, President & CEO, Peritus Partners
 * Pam Parisian, Chief Information Officer, AT&T
 * Sheryl Root, President and CEO, RootAnalysis

Outcomes

 * Susanne Albers - improved
 * Nina Amenta - improved
 * Gillian Arnold (technologist) - improved
 * Susie Wee - new