Seems good initiative! I'd like to know, who will be training the people
from chapters?? It'll be more efficient if someone who specializes in
management of non-profit organization can do this job.
Regards,
Tanweer
On Wed, Aug 14, 2013 at 11:30 AM, Balázs Viczián <
balazs.vicz...@wikimedia.hu> w
If you wish to educate board people, I think mailing lists and acronyms
should not cover a full bulletpoint of the event because they should have
that knowledge already
I miss volunteer management in particular what is imo amongst the basic
skills (it is totally different in many ways from pai
On 14/08/13 07:40, Oliver Keyes wrote:
> We have weekend support - for core services, which constitute our MediaWiki
> instances. Git, however, is not a core service - as Max accurately notes,
> while it makes development finicky and frustrating,
I didn't know anyone used git.wikimedia.org. I thin
On Tue, 13 Aug 2013, Oliver Keyes wrote:
I'd like to think Engineering do a pretty good job at uptime for core
services - when was the last time you saw Wikipedia down for any extended
period of time? - regardless of what day of the week it is.
Wikipedia uptime is certianly much better these d
A quick update I just sent to wikitech-l (where this conversation should
be happening):
http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikitech-l/2013-August/071171.html
Full text below:
As you all are aware, git.wikimedia.org (powered by GitBlit) has been
unstable. The root cause is bas
We have weekend support - for core services, which constitute our MediaWiki
instances. Git, however, is not a core service - as Max accurately notes,
while it makes development finicky and frustrating, it doesn't impact on
our core mission, which is to provide the sum of human knowledge, for
everyb
On Wed, Aug 7, 2013 at 8:50 AM, Denny Vrandečić <
denny.vrande...@wikimedia.de> wrote:
> [...] It might lead to a glorious future, where we really create an open
> source system that allows
> everyone to write in every language and express a wide range of human
> thought.
>
As much as I love this
Hello,
Indeed it seems to me possible to fill a whole master studies with the
things a board member should know :-) but I know that he meant something
different. It would be a could idea to have board members going to
trainings to be a board member in the specific country where they live. A
course
On 13 August 2013 15:39, Federico Leva (Nemo) wrote:
> True. Even worse, many do not even try to be board members (or active
> chapter members, for that matter) because they (think they) don't have
> enough experience. It's crucial to ensure the availability of growing paths
> (usually informal)
This is a very good proposal, and I've forwarded it to the rest of our
board for comment. Thanks, Chris!
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How would they have time to take a master's degree if they have no time to
be volunteers?
/ sophie
2013/8/13 Ilario Valdelli
> In my opinion the real problem is that the volunteers have no time to offer
> being board members.
>
> Anyway people can be trained to manage a NGO or to be board memb
In my opinion the real problem is that the volunteers have no time to offer
being board members.
Anyway people can be trained to manage a NGO or to be board members, there
are some university masters to train NGOs managers.
Regards
On Tue, Aug 13, 2013 at 4:39 PM, Federico Leva (Nemo) wrote:
Thanks Chris (and Markus, Michał and Claudia) for this great initiative. It
is needed and I'm sure it will be really appreciated from most Chapters,
especially from those who are moving from executive boards to governance
oriented boards.
Patricio
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Chris,
Would it be a person per board? Or whole boards and then fewer of them? If
yes to the first one we should include how they can go back and train the
rest of the board members so it gets properly disseminated.
/ sophie
2013/8/13 Chris Keating
> Thanks for all the enthusiasm!
>
>
> > Sin
Thanks for all the enthusiasm!
> Since you said it will be organised in the early 2014, does it mean that
> the workshop will happen in Chapter Conference 2014?
Hi Ted,
It could happen as a pre-meeting to the Wikimedia Conference, or it could
be a stand-alone workshop earlier in the year. This
David Gerard, 13/08/2013 15:47:
Excellent and well done!
It's pretty much standard in small charities that board members start
off as enthusiasts on the topic, but who have *no idea* how to be a
board member of a nonprofit. (Been there, done that, beg off all
opportunities these days.) This is n
I think this is a great idea.
Since you said it will be organised in the early 2014, does it mean that
the workshop will happen in Chapter Conference 2014?
Regards,
Ted Chien
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2013/8/13 下午8:57 於 "Chris Keating" 寫道：
> At Wikimania there was (not for the first time) discuss
On 13 August 2013 13:57, Chris Keating wrote:
> At Wikimania there was (not for the first time) discussion that not much
> support and advice there is available to Chapter board members. On Sunday
> afternoon a small group of us (myself, Markus Glaser, Michał Buczyński,
> Claudia Garad) met to wo
Sarah, I'd love to do that! Great!
*Be Bold!
Sophie Österberg
sosterb...@wikimedia.org*
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gift of free knowledge to humanity. *
2013/8/13 Sarah Stierch
> I agree! Great idea and thanks for sharing it.
>
> I'm going to take a look at the meta page, a
I agree! Great idea and thanks for sharing it.
I'm going to take a look at the meta page, and see if there is an
opportunity for some WMF support - I know Program and Evaluation could be a
great support for this potentially, and organizational structures from the
Learning and Evaluation side. (I'd
Chris,
Thank you for sharing this. I find this to be of great importance and a
crucial step for our movement. I would be very happy to lead a session on
programmes, and specifically Education Programmes, with its aims, current
status and future.
*Be Bold!
Sophie Österberg
sosterb...@wikimedia.org
At Wikimania there was (not for the first time) discussion that not much
support and advice there is available to Chapter board members. On Sunday
afternoon a small group of us (myself, Markus Glaser, Michał Buczyński,
Claudia Garad) met to work out how we could actually provide some training
to he
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