On Thu, Nov 26, 2009 at 9:02 PM, George Herbert george.herbert@gmail.com wrote:
It's important to keep in mind that volunteers - anyone you're not compensating for the work - do what they want, and won't do that they don't want to. A lot of volunteer organizations implode when people at the core forget that.
Yep. The trick is to get them to want to do what you need them to do.
IMHO, Wikipedia doesn't make enough effort to set priorities and channel work towards them.
An excellent example of someone reaching their tolerance level on stuff they don't want to do for free (althought it's commercial-ish work on an unfunded project, rather than a purely volunteer project for charity):
Yeah, saw this on reddit. Not really the same though - sounds he like he was a normal contractor understandably pissed off after not getting paid. Don't think he ever intended to be a volunteer...