>Another thought: perhaps more investment could be made in providing career >development support for our volunteers of all kinds. It's relatively common >in the United States for organizations with lots of volunteers to put some >investment explicitly into helping the volunteers develop skills snd >experience that are useful for both their voluntary and paid work CVs. If >more of that kind of investment was made by WMF, volunteering would be more >attractive *and* WMF would benefit by having more ability to fill paid >positions from the ranks of volunteers. > >Pine
I'm curious, concretely speaking, what do you have in mind? FWIW, I'm very thankful to say that Wikimedia has given me many opportunities to develop skills etc. When I made my first edit I didn't know how to program, now that's what I do for living. Much of that is thanks to help and guidance of many Wikimedians. Obviously that's a different type of mentoring than you're suggesting, but nonetheless much of what I know can be directly attributed to mentoring by various people associated with the movement. -- bawolff _______________________________________________ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, <mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe>
