Hi Gordo I'm not sure it's right to say the panel takes over what was formerly a staff decision making process. The intention of the panel (which reports to the board) is to advise on how WMUK can best engage volunteers. That might include looking at questions around volunteer support, training, recognition, etc. It's not necessarily that these questions weren't being addressed before, but we think it's important to formalise a panel to deal specifically and explicitly with them.
On the more general point, of course a new CEO may well want to introduce particular changes, or implement things in particular ways. However, the new CEO will of course need to consider the ongoing changes in the charity and, importantly, the views of the members and volunteers. So I don't think we should feel the need to delay moving the project oriented approach forward, and consulting on these proposals for changes, which is what we are doing here. Best Simon -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Gordon Joly Sent: 08 June 2015 10:37 To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Volunteering with Wikimedia UK: a call to action On 05/06/15 14:38, Michael Maggs wrote: > * Establish a new volunteer engagement panel > https://wikimedia.org.uk/wiki/Volunteer_engagement_panel > or steering group, focusing specifically on volunteering and volunteer > engagement This panel reports to the CEO, and takes over what was formally a staff decision making process. Since we are still in the interim CEO phase, with a CEO in waiting (person unknown), surely these type of changes should be made by the incoming CEO, who will have to live with them! Looking at the timescales, that should be the case... Gordo _______________________________________________ Wikimedia UK mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediauk-l WMUK: https://wikimedia.org.uk _______________________________________________ Wikimedia UK mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediauk-l WMUK: https://wikimedia.org.uk
