Hi All, Despite Fae’s attempt to derail the conversation and make this all about him (which I am guessing it isn’t) I would like to applaud this initiative.
I hope that in the coming months you can keep us all up to date on your experiences. All of the movement entities are struggling to find meaningful and effective ways to keep people involved in all levels of our decision making. The different approaches in the initiative described below should teach us a lot and I am glad that you are taking such an active approach! Thanks! Jan-Bart > On 05 Jun 2015, at 16:14, Michael Maggs <mich...@maggs.name> wrote: > > > 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 > >> > > > > _______________________________________________ > Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: > https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines > Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org > Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, > <mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe> _______________________________________________ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, <mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe>
