As someone who has previously chosen a jury. The most important factors were experience of wikimania, experience of other events and geographic distribution. Affiliation and role were basically hair splitting factors where volunteers were closely matched in terms of the main three factors.
Seddon
On Tue, Oct 7, 2014 at 1:26 PM, Stuart Prior stuart.prior@wikimedia.org.uk wrote:
Hi all,
Just to clarify, as the impression we're getting from the conversation so far is that it's a "staff jury". This is not really the case if you look at the members.
Esteban: Board member of Wikimedia Argentina >6 years volunteering Daniel: Volunteer >8 years volunteering Finne: Volunteer /Experience organising a Wikimania/>8 years volunteering Claudia: Senior chapter staff Richard: Chapter staff/just helped deliver a Wikimania/>10 years volunteering Me: Chapter contractor/Just organised a Wikimania Ellie: WMF contractor/Just organised a Wikimania
Now, I don't want to speak for the above, but with >34 years of volunteering between the jury + some strong practical experience of delivering such an event, + gender balance + location, that seems like a reasonable jury selection to me.
For my part, as with Richard, I don't see my role fundraising for WMUK as a COI as it's just a job. I volunteer my time to train new editors and support Wikimedia events already and I don't represent Wikimedia UK on this jury.
Gordon, as you quite rightly pointed out, I'll use my personal email address going forward. prior_stuart@me.com
Thanks
S
On 7 October 2014 11:56, Gordon Joly gordon.joly@pobox.com wrote:
On 07/10/14 09:22, Richard Symonds wrote:
I do understand where you're coming from - but we don't judge other people's ability to volunteer based on who pays their salaries. Nor do we assume that I am a 'paid Wikipedia editor'... because I'm not! I'm a volunteer...
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Can I suggest a non WMUK email address (and signature) for your posts as a volunteer?
Gordo
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