Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Volunteering with Wikimedia UK: a call to action
Dan: I'll be in touch! On 6 Jun 2015 13:47, Dan Garry (Deskana) djgw...@gmail.com wrote: If you'd like someone who's involved in the product and strategy side of tech to help out in a working group, committee, or whatever else, let me know. I'd be happy to help. Dan On 5 June 2015 at 06:38, Michael Maggs mich...@maggs.name wrote: Wikimedia UK needs your help. We want to transform the way we work so that we can bring volunteering right into the heart of the charity. We plan to: - Establish a new volunteer engagement panel https://wikimedia.org.uk/wiki/Volunteer_engagement_panel or steering group, focusing specifically on volunteering and volunteer engagement - Embed members into our day-to-day decision making via a new evaluation panel https://wikimedia.org.uk/wiki/Evaluation_panel - Encourage the setting up of volunteer special-interest working groups https://wikimedia.org.uk/wiki/Working_groups to replace the existing non-board committees https://wikimedia.org.uk/wiki/Committees#Non-board_committees - Set up cultural/GLAM https://wikimedia.org.uk/wiki/Cultural_and_GLAM_advisory_board and educational outreach https://wikimedia.org.uk/wiki/Educational_outreach_advisory_board expert advisory boards to advise the WMUK main board on high-level strategy - Change our Articles of Association https://wikimedia.org.uk/wiki/2015_Annual_General_Meeting/Resolutions#.281.29_Enabling_non-trustees_to_become_full_members_of_Govcom.2C_ARC_and_any_other_board_committees_that_may_be_constituted to allow volunteers to be appointed full members of board committees - Provide more effective support for volunteers via the new project coordinator https://wikimedia.org.uk/wiki/Project_Coordinator staff roles - Move toward project-based https://wikimedia.org.uk/wiki/Project-based_working working practices to improve efficiency and to enable better self-evaluation of our work These draft plans follow on from the excellent feedback we received from our last Volunteer Strategy Gathering https://wikimedia.org.uk/wiki/Volunteer_Strategy_Gathering/July_2015. They deliberately don't attempt to answer all possible questions about implementation, as we think it best that both further questions and the answers to those questions should come out of collaborative discussions. The plans are not set in stone, and with the community's help they can be improved, strengthened and fleshed out. We would like your feedback, either online or in person at our next Volunteer Strategy Gathering https://wikimedia.org.uk/wiki/Volunteer_Strategy_Gathering/July_2015 on Saturday 25th July 2015, in London. For more information, see the links on the right. Feedback, comments and discussion are more than welcome on the discussion page, or you can email chair[image: at]wikimedia.org.uk if you have feedback you would prefer not to make public. To read the full details on wiki see here: https://wikimedia.org.uk/wiki/Volunteer_strategy_consultation_2015 Best regards Michael ___ Michael Maggs Chair, Wikimedia UK ___ Wikimedia UK mailing list wikimediau...@wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediauk-l WMUK: https://wikimedia.org.uk ___ Wikimedia UK mailing list wikimediau...@wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediauk-l WMUK: https://wikimedia.org.uk ___ Wikimedia UK mailing list wikimediau...@wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediauk-l WMUK: https://wikimedia.org.uk
Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Volunteering with Wikimedia UK: a call to action
Hi Dan, that's excellent. Thanks very much. Will definitely follow up with you as we move forward. All the best, Michael Dan Garry (Deskana) mailto:djgw...@gmail.com 6 June 2015 13:48 Although note that I live on the west coast of the US, so travelling to anywhere in the UK or doing anything before 5pm UK time might not be my strength. ;-) Dan ___ Wikimedia UK mailing list wikimediau...@wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediauk-l WMUK: https://wikimedia.org.uk Dan Garry (Deskana) mailto:djgw...@gmail.com 6 June 2015 13:46 If you'd like someone who's involved in the product and strategy side of tech to help out in a working group, committee, or whatever else, let me know. I'd be happy to help. Dan ___ Wikimedia UK mailing list wikimediau...@wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediauk-l WMUK: https://wikimedia.org.uk Michael Maggs mailto:mich...@maggs.name 5 June 2015 14:38 Wikimedia UK needs your help. We want to transform the way we work so that we can bring volunteering right into the heart of the charity. We plan to: * Establish a new volunteer engagement panel https://wikimedia.org.uk/wiki/Volunteer_engagement_panel or steering group, focusing specifically on volunteering and volunteer engagement * Embed members into our day-to-day decision making via a new evaluation panel https://wikimedia.org.uk/wiki/Evaluation_panel * Encourage the setting up of volunteer special-interest working groups https://wikimedia.org.uk/wiki/Working_groups to replace the existing non-board committees https://wikimedia.org.uk/wiki/Committees#Non-board_committees * Set up cultural/GLAM https://wikimedia.org.uk/wiki/Cultural_and_GLAM_advisory_board and educational outreach https://wikimedia.org.uk/wiki/Educational_outreach_advisory_board expert advisory boards to advise the WMUK main board on high-level strategy * Change our Articles of Association https://wikimedia.org.uk/wiki/2015_Annual_General_Meeting/Resolutions#.281.29_Enabling_non-trustees_to_become_full_members_of_Govcom.2C_ARC_and_any_other_board_committees_that_may_be_constituted to allow volunteers to be appointed full members of board committees * Provide more effective support for volunteers via the new project coordinator https://wikimedia.org.uk/wiki/Project_Coordinator staff roles * Move toward project-based https://wikimedia.org.uk/wiki/Project-based_working working practices to improve efficiency and to enable better self-evaluation of our work These draft plans follow on from the excellent feedback we received from our last Volunteer Strategy Gathering https://wikimedia.org.uk/wiki/Volunteer_Strategy_Gathering/July_2015. They deliberately don't attempt to answer all possible questions about implementation, as we think it best that both further questions and the answers to those questions should come out of collaborative discussions. The plans are not set in stone, and with the community's help they can be improved, strengthened and fleshed out. We would like your feedback, either online or in person at our next Volunteer Strategy Gathering https://wikimedia.org.uk/wiki/Volunteer_Strategy_Gathering/July_2015 on Saturday 25th July 2015, in London. For more information, see the links on the right. Feedback, comments and discussion are more than welcome on the discussion page, or you can email chairatwikimedia.org.uk if you have feedback you would prefer not to make public. To read the full details on wiki see here: https://wikimedia.org.uk/wiki/Volunteer_strategy_consultation_2015 Best regards Michael ___ Michael Maggs Chair, Wikimedia UK ___ Wikimedia UK mailing list wikimediau...@wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediauk-l WMUK: https://wikimedia.org.uk ___ Wikimedia UK mailing list wikimediau...@wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediauk-l WMUK: https://wikimedia.org.uk
Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Volunteering with Wikimedia UK: a call to action
On 05/06/15 19:04, Michael Maggs wrote: Change our Articles of Association to allow non-board volunteers to be appointed full members of board committees. Do these volunteers need to be members of the charity? Gordo ___ Wikimedia UK mailing list wikimediau...@wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediauk-l WMUK: https://wikimedia.org.uk
Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Volunteering with Wikimedia UK: a call to action
On 06/06/15 14:08, Michael Maggs wrote: The change in the articles will not require membership as a condition of serving on a board committee, so it will depend on what policies we set. It's open to discussion: what is your view? Michael My view is that membership is require for all aspect of charity Governance. Gordo ___ Wikimedia UK mailing list wikimediau...@wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediauk-l WMUK: https://wikimedia.org.uk
Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Volunteering with Wikimedia UK: a call to action
If you'd like someone who's involved in the product and strategy side of tech to help out in a working group, committee, or whatever else, let me know. I'd be happy to help. Dan On 5 June 2015 at 06:38, Michael Maggs mich...@maggs.name wrote: Wikimedia UK needs your help. We want to transform the way we work so that we can bring volunteering right into the heart of the charity. We plan to: - Establish a new volunteer engagement panel https://wikimedia.org.uk/wiki/Volunteer_engagement_panel or steering group, focusing specifically on volunteering and volunteer engagement - Embed members into our day-to-day decision making via a new evaluation panel https://wikimedia.org.uk/wiki/Evaluation_panel - Encourage the setting up of volunteer special-interest working groups https://wikimedia.org.uk/wiki/Working_groups to replace the existing non-board committees https://wikimedia.org.uk/wiki/Committees#Non-board_committees - Set up cultural/GLAM https://wikimedia.org.uk/wiki/Cultural_and_GLAM_advisory_board and educational outreach https://wikimedia.org.uk/wiki/Educational_outreach_advisory_board expert advisory boards to advise the WMUK main board on high-level strategy - Change our Articles of Association https://wikimedia.org.uk/wiki/2015_Annual_General_Meeting/Resolutions#.281.29_Enabling_non-trustees_to_become_full_members_of_Govcom.2C_ARC_and_any_other_board_committees_that_may_be_constituted to allow volunteers to be appointed full members of board committees - Provide more effective support for volunteers via the new project coordinator https://wikimedia.org.uk/wiki/Project_Coordinator staff roles - Move toward project-based https://wikimedia.org.uk/wiki/Project-based_working working practices to improve efficiency and to enable better self-evaluation of our work These draft plans follow on from the excellent feedback we received from our last Volunteer Strategy Gathering https://wikimedia.org.uk/wiki/Volunteer_Strategy_Gathering/July_2015. They deliberately don't attempt to answer all possible questions about implementation, as we think it best that both further questions and the answers to those questions should come out of collaborative discussions. The plans are not set in stone, and with the community's help they can be improved, strengthened and fleshed out. We would like your feedback, either online or in person at our next Volunteer Strategy Gathering https://wikimedia.org.uk/wiki/Volunteer_Strategy_Gathering/July_2015 on Saturday 25th July 2015, in London. For more information, see the links on the right. Feedback, comments and discussion are more than welcome on the discussion page, or you can email chair[image: at]wikimedia.org.uk if you have feedback you would prefer not to make public. To read the full details on wiki see here: https://wikimedia.org.uk/wiki/Volunteer_strategy_consultation_2015 Best regards Michael ___ Michael Maggs Chair, Wikimedia UK ___ Wikimedia UK mailing list wikimediau...@wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediauk-l WMUK: https://wikimedia.org.uk ___ Wikimedia UK mailing list wikimediau...@wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediauk-l WMUK: https://wikimedia.org.uk
Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Volunteering with Wikimedia UK: a call to action
Although note that I live on the west coast of the US, so travelling to anywhere in the UK or doing anything before 5pm UK time might not be my strength. ;-) Dan On 6 June 2015 at 05:46, Dan Garry (Deskana) djgw...@gmail.com wrote: If you'd like someone who's involved in the product and strategy side of tech to help out in a working group, committee, or whatever else, let me know. I'd be happy to help. Dan On 5 June 2015 at 06:38, Michael Maggs mich...@maggs.name wrote: Wikimedia UK needs your help. We want to transform the way we work so that we can bring volunteering right into the heart of the charity. We plan to: - Establish a new volunteer engagement panel https://wikimedia.org.uk/wiki/Volunteer_engagement_panel or steering group, focusing specifically on volunteering and volunteer engagement - Embed members into our day-to-day decision making via a new evaluation panel https://wikimedia.org.uk/wiki/Evaluation_panel - Encourage the setting up of volunteer special-interest working groups https://wikimedia.org.uk/wiki/Working_groups to replace the existing non-board committees https://wikimedia.org.uk/wiki/Committees#Non-board_committees - Set up cultural/GLAM https://wikimedia.org.uk/wiki/Cultural_and_GLAM_advisory_board and educational outreach https://wikimedia.org.uk/wiki/Educational_outreach_advisory_board expert advisory boards to advise the WMUK main board on high-level strategy - Change our Articles of Association https://wikimedia.org.uk/wiki/2015_Annual_General_Meeting/Resolutions#.281.29_Enabling_non-trustees_to_become_full_members_of_Govcom.2C_ARC_and_any_other_board_committees_that_may_be_constituted to allow volunteers to be appointed full members of board committees - Provide more effective support for volunteers via the new project coordinator https://wikimedia.org.uk/wiki/Project_Coordinator staff roles - Move toward project-based https://wikimedia.org.uk/wiki/Project-based_working working practices to improve efficiency and to enable better self-evaluation of our work These draft plans follow on from the excellent feedback we received from our last Volunteer Strategy Gathering https://wikimedia.org.uk/wiki/Volunteer_Strategy_Gathering/July_2015. They deliberately don't attempt to answer all possible questions about implementation, as we think it best that both further questions and the answers to those questions should come out of collaborative discussions. The plans are not set in stone, and with the community's help they can be improved, strengthened and fleshed out. We would like your feedback, either online or in person at our next Volunteer Strategy Gathering https://wikimedia.org.uk/wiki/Volunteer_Strategy_Gathering/July_2015 on Saturday 25th July 2015, in London. For more information, see the links on the right. Feedback, comments and discussion are more than welcome on the discussion page, or you can email chair[image: at]wikimedia.org.uk if you have feedback you would prefer not to make public. To read the full details on wiki see here: https://wikimedia.org.uk/wiki/Volunteer_strategy_consultation_2015 Best regards Michael ___ Michael Maggs Chair, Wikimedia UK ___ Wikimedia UK mailing list wikimediau...@wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediauk-l WMUK: https://wikimedia.org.uk ___ Wikimedia UK mailing list wikimediau...@wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediauk-l WMUK: https://wikimedia.org.uk
Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Volunteering with Wikimedia UK: a call to action
The change in the articles will not require membership as a condition of serving on a board committee, so it will depend on what policies we set. It's open to discussion: what is your view? Michael Gordon Joly mailto:gordon.j...@pobox.com 6 June 2015 14:04 Do these volunteers need to be members of the charity? Gordo ___ Wikimedia UK mailing list wikimediau...@wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediauk-l WMUK: https://wikimedia.org.uk Michael Maggs mailto:mich...@maggs.name 5 June 2015 19:04 Indeed. Wording clarified to Change our Articles of Association https://wikimedia.org.uk/wiki/2015_Annual_General_Meeting/Resolutions#.281.29_Enabling_non-trustees_to_become_full_members_of_Govcom.2C_ARC_and_any_other_board_committees_that_may_be_constituted to allow non-board volunteers to be appointed full members of board committees. Best regards Michael _ Michael Maggs Chair, Wikimedia UK ___ Wikimedia UK mailing list wikimediau...@wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediauk-l WMUK: https://wikimedia.org.uk Gordon Joly mailto:gordon.j...@pobox.com 5 June 2015 18:59 Blimey. I always thought any member could be a Trustee, and hence join board committees. Gordo ___ Wikimedia UK mailing list wikimediau...@wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediauk-l WMUK: https://wikimedia.org.uk Michael Maggs mailto:mich...@maggs.name 5 June 2015 14:38 Wikimedia UK needs your help. We want to transform the way we work so that we can bring volunteering right into the heart of the charity. We plan to: * Establish a new volunteer engagement panel https://wikimedia.org.uk/wiki/Volunteer_engagement_panel or steering group, focusing specifically on volunteering and volunteer engagement * Embed members into our day-to-day decision making via a new evaluation panel https://wikimedia.org.uk/wiki/Evaluation_panel * Encourage the setting up of volunteer special-interest working groups https://wikimedia.org.uk/wiki/Working_groups to replace the existing non-board committees https://wikimedia.org.uk/wiki/Committees#Non-board_committees * Set up cultural/GLAM https://wikimedia.org.uk/wiki/Cultural_and_GLAM_advisory_board and educational outreach https://wikimedia.org.uk/wiki/Educational_outreach_advisory_board expert advisory boards to advise the WMUK main board on high-level strategy * Change our Articles of Association https://wikimedia.org.uk/wiki/2015_Annual_General_Meeting/Resolutions#.281.29_Enabling_non-trustees_to_become_full_members_of_Govcom.2C_ARC_and_any_other_board_committees_that_may_be_constituted to allow volunteers to be appointed full members of board committees * Provide more effective support for volunteers via the new project coordinator https://wikimedia.org.uk/wiki/Project_Coordinator staff roles * Move toward project-based https://wikimedia.org.uk/wiki/Project-based_working working practices to improve efficiency and to enable better self-evaluation of our work These draft plans follow on from the excellent feedback we received from our last Volunteer Strategy Gathering https://wikimedia.org.uk/wiki/Volunteer_Strategy_Gathering/July_2015. They deliberately don't attempt to answer all possible questions about implementation, as we think it best that both further questions and the answers to those questions should come out of collaborative discussions. The plans are not set in stone, and with the community's help they can be improved, strengthened and fleshed out. We would like your feedback, either online or in person at our next Volunteer Strategy Gathering https://wikimedia.org.uk/wiki/Volunteer_Strategy_Gathering/July_2015 on Saturday 25th July 2015, in London. For more information, see the links on the right. Feedback, comments and discussion are more than welcome on the discussion page, or you can email chairatwikimedia.org.uk if you have feedback you would prefer not to make public. To read the full details on wiki see here: https://wikimedia.org.uk/wiki/Volunteer_strategy_consultation_2015 Best regards Michael ___ Michael Maggs Chair, Wikimedia UK ___ Wikimedia UK mailing list wikimediau...@wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediauk-l WMUK: https://wikimedia.org.uk ___ Wikimedia UK mailing list wikimediau...@wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediauk-l WMUK: https://wikimedia.org.uk
Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Volunteering with Wikimedia UK: a call to action
One of the problems we have with membership is that there's little we can offer as benefit. That's OK in many ways, because I guess many members pay their five quid as a way of supporting WMUK, in the same way as they do other charirties, rather than for what it gives them in return. Nevertheless, it does make it a bit harder to sell the idea of joining a committee to a volunteer who is not yet a member, if they have to pay £5 as a pre-requisite for giving up yet more of their time. Personally I think the idea of open and flexible membership of committees should imply that we don't insist on membership of the charity to take part in a non-board committee meeting. We can always suggest that they become a member after we've got them working. I do agree though, that anyone serving on a Board sub-committee like ARC should be a member of the charity - I see those as quite distinct from the non-board committees (whatever we eventually decide to call those). -- Rexx On 6 June 2015 at 14:14, Gordon Joly gordon.j...@pobox.com wrote: On 06/06/15 14:08, Michael Maggs wrote: The change in the articles will not require membership as a condition of serving on a board committee, so it will depend on what policies we set. It's open to discussion: what is your view? Michael My view is that membership is require for all aspect of charity Governance. Gordo ___ Wikimedia UK mailing list wikimediau...@wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediauk-l WMUK: https://wikimedia.org.uk ___ Wikimedia UK mailing list wikimediau...@wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediauk-l WMUK: https://wikimedia.org.uk
Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Volunteering with Wikimedia UK: a call to action
It would make sense to require charity membership of those serving on the formal board committees (Audit Risk, and Governance), but certainly not what we have called the 'working groups'. Membership has never been needed to help out on the current tech committee, for example, and we should try to make any replacement 'tech working group' even more open and welcoming. Michael Deryck Chan mailto:deryckc...@gmail.com 6 June 2015 16:42 I'm wary of non-members being allowed to serve on any committee that is enshrined in the charity's articles. If paying a fiver is a concern, the board can always vote to exempt said prospective member's fee. ___ Wikimedia UK mailing list wikimediau...@wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediauk-l WMUK: https://wikimedia.org.uk Michael Maggs mailto:mich...@maggs.name 6 June 2015 14:08 The change in the articles will not require membership as a condition of serving on a board committee, so it will depend on what policies we set. It's open to discussion: what is your view? Michael ___ Wikimedia UK mailing list wikimediau...@wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediauk-l WMUK: https://wikimedia.org.uk Gordon Joly mailto:gordon.j...@pobox.com 6 June 2015 14:04 Do these volunteers need to be members of the charity? Gordo ___ Wikimedia UK mailing list wikimediau...@wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediauk-l WMUK: https://wikimedia.org.uk Michael Maggs mailto:mich...@maggs.name 5 June 2015 19:04 Indeed. Wording clarified to Change our Articles of Association https://wikimedia.org.uk/wiki/2015_Annual_General_Meeting/Resolutions#.281.29_Enabling_non-trustees_to_become_full_members_of_Govcom.2C_ARC_and_any_other_board_committees_that_may_be_constituted to allow non-board volunteers to be appointed full members of board committees. Best regards Michael _ Michael Maggs Chair, Wikimedia UK ___ Wikimedia UK mailing list wikimediau...@wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediauk-l WMUK: https://wikimedia.org.uk Gordon Joly mailto:gordon.j...@pobox.com 5 June 2015 18:59 Blimey. I always thought any member could be a Trustee, and hence join board committees. Gordo ___ Wikimedia UK mailing list wikimediau...@wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediauk-l WMUK: https://wikimedia.org.uk Michael Maggs mailto:mich...@maggs.name 5 June 2015 14:38 Wikimedia UK needs your help. We want to transform the way we work so that we can bring volunteering right into the heart of the charity. We plan to: * Establish a new volunteer engagement panel https://wikimedia.org.uk/wiki/Volunteer_engagement_panel or steering group, focusing specifically on volunteering and volunteer engagement * Embed members into our day-to-day decision making via a new evaluation panel https://wikimedia.org.uk/wiki/Evaluation_panel * Encourage the setting up of volunteer special-interest working groups https://wikimedia.org.uk/wiki/Working_groups to replace the existing non-board committees https://wikimedia.org.uk/wiki/Committees#Non-board_committees * Set up cultural/GLAM https://wikimedia.org.uk/wiki/Cultural_and_GLAM_advisory_board and educational outreach https://wikimedia.org.uk/wiki/Educational_outreach_advisory_board expert advisory boards to advise the WMUK main board on high-level strategy * Change our Articles of Association https://wikimedia.org.uk/wiki/2015_Annual_General_Meeting/Resolutions#.281.29_Enabling_non-trustees_to_become_full_members_of_Govcom.2C_ARC_and_any_other_board_committees_that_may_be_constituted to allow volunteers to be appointed full members of board committees * Provide more effective support for volunteers via the new project coordinator https://wikimedia.org.uk/wiki/Project_Coordinator staff roles * Move toward project-based https://wikimedia.org.uk/wiki/Project-based_working working practices to improve efficiency and to enable better self-evaluation of our work These draft plans follow on from the excellent feedback we received from our last Volunteer Strategy Gathering https://wikimedia.org.uk/wiki/Volunteer_Strategy_Gathering/July_2015. They deliberately don't attempt to answer all possible questions about implementation, as we think it best that both further questions and the answers to those questions should come out of collaborative discussions. The plans are not set in stone, and with the community's help they can be improved, strengthened and fleshed out. We would like your feedback, either online or in person at our next Volunteer Strategy Gathering
