 Florence Devereux is another one who probably does not need an introduction, but here it is nonetheless She joined Wikipedia in February 2002 That's right more than 20 years ago Prior to wikimania prior to wikimedia prior to any meetup in fact She notes that because of this She is an archaeology piece Florence is also the former chair of the wikimedia foundations board of trustees Florence Hello So I guess you hear me Yes Okay, good. So thank you very much Rosie and thank you for the organizing committee for this very first wiki women's summit And I would like to thank you all both people in the room and people online as well So what I would like to introduce today is a very ancient tradition of every single wikimedia So that's something that runs a very long time ago and Which is still live today and that's the wiki women lunch So before I go into specifics I just want to very quickly say this will take place on Friday in room three two four at Watch lunch lunchtime so 1215 and I would like to leave go a little bit in history to talk to you about what happened So what happened was already mentioned a little bit by maria early on Gender gap always always existed in our communities It runs very deep and even if the situation is I would say better right now It was quite tough the first few years and back in two or six Somebody called Angela Bislay was then a board member at the wikimedia foundation board decided to create a mailing list and That very first mailing list while cool was called the wiki chicks mailing list for those of you who are not English speakers chicks means women and It was particularly used in the American world For example by the Ubuntu women and the Linux women So she thought creating a list would be an interesting thing to do and What happened and that was very radical at that time is she decided to make it to close mailing lists So only female and guess what happened it really raised a lot of energy Lots of anger lots of anxiety We had people complaining Women complaining because it was a closed list but also many men complaining that this was too radical for our Organization so I can't remember exactly when this list was closed But it was very quickly after the creation just a few months later And then a few months later We had the third wikimania event which at that time took place in Taipei, Taiwan And maybe you can show that image there was whether some people at Taipei at the time. Yeah We had three So I would like to show you the very first image of the very first women's lunch Which took place in Taipei How many people on the picture? 12 people so I'm sure there were more because at least there were three of you But at that time that table was in the middle of a very big room with plenty of round tables So we were women only but some lots of men around in other tables And that very first lunch was called the wiki shakes lunch so it was not a wiki women at that time and You may recognize some of the people was still around so I am in on the left-hand side But there's also some people was still here today at wikimania in particular. There's a cat wash So I don't know where she's exactly if she's in the room and there's also Phoebe Ayers who was also a wikimania organizer later, so she's on the right-hand side I don't think any of the other people are still around or at least not today and If you look at 12 o'clock, you will see Sue Gardner So Sue Gardner just joined the wiki media foundation at that time as in first eddy and Jandegap was a very important thing to her so she really started working on that topic and That's after that meeting that we saw emerge all the initiative that were earlier mentioned and that you are probably aware of So that's a very deep very long time ago This was in 27 and as you see we were 12 people so it followed in the following year. We had 40 people in Gdansk in Poland in 2010 and then we went to 60 people in 2014 that was in London So 60 people is quite a big some very curious to know how many people we will have this year you will count for me for us And the important thing is actually we were named the wiki chick lunch till 2012 So it went for many years as a wiki chick lunch until Washington when people decided to rename it and call it wiki women. I Don't know who renamed it. I have no memory of that Maybe it was a political decision because people thought that chick was not so much a nice name for us But that's what happened And in any cases, let me give you some specific about this year wiki chick wiki women lunch, sorry about that Some very important point how what that happened? So on Saturday at 12 15 you can grab lunch wherever lunch is proposed And you get to the room which is room 3 2 4 Okay, is There a dress code? No, no dress code you come as you are don't worry about that However, since you will be with your plate be super careful because if you've got your best clothes Maybe you might make a mess so be careful You are here, but there will be other women by Saturday So please please be ambassador before lunch if you go around and meet some other women Please invite them to join us. Okay, so be at the ambassador of that Some of you might be very busy people. So you might not have the time to spend the entire 90 minutes of lunch with us at the wiki lunch So that's okay. We have a rule which is called the two feet The two feet rule at unconferences so that rule means whenever you need to leave you leave When you can come you come so just do that if you have other Obligations or other places you need to go to that's fine. Just come whenever you can come Now I have a very controversial statement and I'm sorry in advance about that, but that's very serious This lunch is restricted to women to only people who identify themselves as women So people who might we identify themselves as men. Sorry about that, but you stay out of the room Please keep it a moment just for women But if you see somebody entering the room and you're not sure whether they are women or men This is not up to you to really decide whether what they identified So please leave it to the organizer to decide if it's an issue and they need to deal with it So be nice be gentle be considerate with other joining But just make the the information known that it's for women. It's a space for us Last point which is quite important what will happen during the lunch? Why are we gathering together? There are three reasons the number one reason if you look at the program It's a very busy program in the afternoon So you simply need to drink to eat and to gather energy so that you're very much awake in the afternoon So that's the first goal Second thing there will be a photo a group photo for women. That's how we know that there were 12 attendees back in 207 60 attendees in back in 2014 so there will be a picture Same thing if you don't want to be on the picture because you want your private life to be not seen online That's fine. Just hide yourself behind somebody or do not join the picture. No problem. It's there's no obligation there and last point We will not just stand and have lunch if you want to stay silent and listen to others Do that if you want to speak to your neighbor just speak to your neighbor But the tradition is usually that there are some people speaking up They are not there to present themselves and to talk about their initiative and who they are and do a sort of a power trip they're here to tell a story to Maybe inspire you if they want to say something they will do that And if you are interested by doing that think of your story in advance and when the time is ready Then you can you know raise your hand and share story with the others so that's about it for the wiki women lunch and I can tell you in advance that I will have another meeting as well at that time Which is the wiki mania committee organizing team? So I might be there sometimes but no not the time so it's the same for you I will be happy to see you and we'll be happy to see all of you join if you identify as women Thank you very much