Hi Dan, that's excellent. Thanks very much. Will definitely follow up
with you as we move forward.
All the best,
Michael
Dan Garry (Deskana) <mailto:djgw...@gmail.com>
6 June 2015 13:48
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
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Dan Garry (Deskana) <mailto:djgw...@gmail.com>
6 June 2015 13:46
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
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Michael Maggs <mailto:mich...@maggs.name>
5 June 2015 14:38
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 chairatwikimedia.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
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