> >Each member has to report these hours so the collective amount for
> >each local group can be reported to the head officers.
This raises interesting questions. Why wouldn't the time you spend
answering technical questions for a group like Arachne qualify as volunteer time?
Or, the uncompensated hours you spend designing and writing instructions for
a lace that appears in one of our IOLI, The Lace Guild, OIDFA, etc.
publications?
I would like to see a written statement that specifies the qualifications for volunteer time with IOLI. At this time I just know what I have been told.
What came to me from both a former representative, and a current IOLI officer, are the two following statements:
> ...it has always been my understanding that demonstration hours should be counted for formal, organized events only -...
.... demonstration hours reported to IOLI must be from a 'formal' event, something organized, such as a festival or museum open house, etc.
My guild records only on-site demo time when we are face to face with the public. Travel and preparation time is not included. Activities within the guild do not count.
Arachne is sort of like a guild -- even though a very large one. Answering questions on Arachne is usually for 'guild members' rather than general public.
(Yes, I know archives can be accessed by non-Arachnians but I don't think that would count.) What we do for ourselves is not counted.
As far as payment goes for expenses incurred, I would guess that it is up to each group or guild as to what they will or will not pay for. The national IOLI does not control each individual guild's handling of it's finances.
It would be nice, sometimes, to get reimbursed for expenses incurred in some activities related to our lace and/or other volunteering, but meanwhile we must be happy with the feeling of a job well done, and occasionally a 'Thank You' from someone. If I had a nickel for each hour I've put in doing things for other people, I might have enough to pay for the new bobbins I just ordered. <G>
Maybe someday, someone will endow IOLI with funds to subsidize the activities you mention. It would be nice to get a money grant for writing articles. We can always hope. (Should we have a campaign to put IOLI donations in our wills? Other groups keep asking me to do it.)
Lace note - About 2/3 done with my first overlapping lace finish. The first cut will be scary.
Alice in Oregon -- trying to type with a huge cat in my lap who won't leave.
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