Chapters meeting 2009/Working with volunteers & local communities
Acquiring volunteers
[edit]Course of the discussion
[edit]- Revo: activity interesting
- Asaf: "Matchmaker principle": present specific tasks and call for volunteers
- Pavel: people have questions : What will it bring to me? How can I help Wikipedia?
- Asaf: people who want to help outside Wikipedia
- Agnieszka: survey skills & interests
- Lodewijk: people find survey weird?
- Agnieszka: few, but it works
- Agnieszka: summarize possibilities of help
- Asaf: expose that varied tasks can help
- Lodewijk: other side, if you have tasks and need volunteers
- Asaf: location, go to where the skill is common
- use mailing list to introduce to community
Goals
[edit]- Specific tasks
- Variety of activities
- Skill by location
- Decentralize matchmaking by introducing to community
Canalizing volunteers
[edit]Note taker: Delphine Menard
Course of the discussion
[edit]- foster personal development
- know your resources
- indentity card to analyse available skills + interests (+ self-assessment)
- describe task: what, whe, who, how, where?
- define skills needed for the task
- "external" assess sheet for "mentorship"
- deal with leaders + followers
- deal with "bad" professionals