Of course you don't need to be a member to volunteer with us or to be
part of this or any other consultation. There are only a very few
things that are restricted to members or that need member support, for
example borrowing our equipment and handling the charity's money.
Michael
Fæ <mailto:fae...@gmail.com>
5 June 2015 15:22
Do you have to be a paid up member of the charity to be part of the
consultation or the envisaged interest groups?
As last year you changed the charity policies to limit all equipment
to paid members only, which caused WM-LGBT+ a pointless degree of
hassle to even borrowing a projector, I presume that the same policy
of exclusivity would apply.
Fae
Previous Chairman of Wikimedia UK, uniquely excluded from membership
of the UK charity or elections.
Michael Maggs <mailto:mich...@maggs.name>
5 June 2015 15:14
Dear movement colleagues
I thought you might like to hear about a new WMUK initiative,
following on from our recently-completed staff restructure. We are
hopeful our local community will react positively to much greater
levels of volunteer engagement.
Our initiative might be of interest to other chapters who are trying -
as we are - to get away from a perception of not being sufficiently
open to community involvement.
Also, we are looking for movement-wide input. If you can provide
thoughts, ideas or feedback, do please make contact.
For the full details on wiki see:
https://wikimedia.org.uk/wiki/Volunteer_strategy_consultation_2015
Best regards
Michael
____________
Michael Maggs
Chair, Wikimedia UK
*From:* Michael Maggs
*Date:* 5 June 2015 14:38
*To:* "wikimediau...@lists.wikimedia.org"
<wikimediau...@lists.wikimedia.org>
*Subject:* [Wikimediauk-l] Volunteering with Wikimedia UK: a call to
action
Volunteering with Wikimedia UK: a call to action
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
_______
Michael Maggs
Chair, Wikimedia UK
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