Hi all,
this November, there will be a Wikimedia Volunteer Supporters Network Meeting taking place in Berlin, with volunteer supporters from all over Europe participating.
In an international volunteer supporters Skype call in June, we came to the conclusion that it would be very helpful and inspiring to have an occasion for face-to-face exchange about volunteer support related topics and the possibility to work on some specific aspects concerning our work.
As you might know, the Volunteer Supporters Network (VSN) aims at establishing and maintaining collaboration between volunteer supporters in the Wikimedia movement in order to continually improve volunteer support. We try to do that by offering communication channels for volunteer supporters to exchange experiences, learnings, questions and advice.
After meetings and sessions with some of us during this year’s Wikimedia Conference and Wikimania, we have continued discussing ideas and projects online and would like to build on this momentum and meet in Berlin in person to:
learn more about each other’s work and get inspired
discuss specific challenges related to working with Wikimedia volunteers (and come up with ways to handle those)
discuss and learn ways to evaluate the success and impact of our work (especially when it comes to topics that are difficult to measure)
To do this, we would like to meet with fellow Wikimedia Volunteer Supporters in Berlin from November 10th until 12th, 2017.
If you would like to attend, please send a short e-mail with your name, affiliation and role to: veronika.kraemer@wikimedia.de (UNTIL October 16th, 2017).
Logistics:
Two days workshop (Friday evening, Saturday all day, Sunday until after lunch)
Number of participants: we are planning with a group of ca. 10 people, 15 maximum
WMDE would host the workshop and would be able to cover costs for catering, venue, and facilitation. Support for travel and accommodation by WMDE is possible upon request.
If you are interested in participating, please respond by October 16th, so we can start planning. Thank you!
Looking forward to hopefully seeing many of you in November!
Veronika (WMDE), Raimund (WMAT) and Cornelius (WMDE)