On 18 March 2014 13:57, Edward Saperia <[email protected]> wrote: >> That would be really bad on multiple levels - two obvious ones being that >> staff should be 'supporting' not 'representing' the movement, > Surely recruitment of new volunteers is supporting the movement.
Note, that for the original socializing event that Stevie posted about, it is very unlikely that attendees will be potential new volunteers. They may represent organizations with their own networks of volunteers, but then we even have trustees on our board who are employed in organizations with extremely large and relevant volunteer networks, and yet this has not resulted in any measurable growth in our membership or active volunteers - in fact the numbers continue to remain almost static when compared to the volunteer led annual doubling in growth we could measure before we set up an office 3 years ago.[1] Links 1. https://wikimedia.org.uk/wiki/Membership/numbers, https://wikimedia.org.uk/wiki/Volunteers/numbers Fae -- [email protected] https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Fae _______________________________________________ Wikimedia UK mailing list [email protected] http://mail.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediauk-l WMUK: https://wikimedia.org.uk
