Chapters meeting 2009/Working with volunteers & local communities

Acquiring volunteers

Course of the discussion

• 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

1. Specific tasks
2. Variety of activities
3. Skill by location
4. Decentralize matchmaking by introducing to community

Canalizing volunteers

Note taker: Delphine Menard

Course of the discussion

• 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