[Wikimediauk-l] Volunteering with Wikimedia UK: a call to action

2015-06-05 Thread Michael Maggs
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

Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Volunteering with Wikimedia UK: a call to action

2015-06-05 Thread rexx
I've given a few initial thoughts at https://wikimedia.org.uk/wiki/Talk:Volunteer_strategy_consultation_2015 but I'll leave a copy here to see if we can attract list members to the wiki to participate. I welcome all attempts to bring more volunteers into the charity's activities and I'm glad that

Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Volunteering with Wikimedia UK: a call to action

2015-06-05 Thread Gordon Joly
On 05/06/15 14:38, Michael Maggs wrote: Change our Articles of Association to allow volunteers to be appointed full members of board committees Blimey. I always thought any member could be a Trustee, and hence join board committees. Gordo ___

Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Volunteering with Wikimedia UK: a call to action

2015-06-05 Thread Michael Maggs
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