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 >
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