Although note that I live on the west coast of the US, so travelling to anywhere in the UK or doing anything before 5pm UK time might not be my strength. ;-)
Dan On 6 June 2015 at 05:46, Dan Garry (Deskana) <djgw...@gmail.com> wrote: > 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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