All,
I'm currently organising business cards for interested (and active!)
volunteers. If you're interested, please let me know *privately
(off-list) *within
the next day or two. I need to get these cards sorted out ASAP - if you're
interested I'll need your username, your phone number (if you want it on
there), an email address (if you want one on there) and anything else you
think relevant. It'd also be nice to know what you'd consider yourself as
(eg "GLAM Volunteer"). I might need to tweak these titles a little, but not
too much.
I'll also need a brief explanation of why it's important for you to have
them - nothing big, just a sentence or two, something like "I do a lot of
GLAM Outreach with museums in the York area, and would like the cards to
appear more professional when doing projects" or "I speak fluent Cornish
and would like to be able to approach Cornish organisations in a
semi-official basis".
The cards will comply with WMF Visual Identity guidelines, will be
professional-looking, will be funded by WMUK. We'll keep track of who has
them in the office - which means you'll need to be a chapter member, or at
the very least well-known to the chapter. They won't confer any "official
status" on you, and you won't be able to sign agreements or similar on
behalf of the chapter (obviously), but they will help you make those first
vital inroads when talking to people from GLAMs.
I can think of 5 or 6 volunteers off the top of my head who could make good
use of them. Let me know ASAP. *I can't promise that we'll give them out *to
*everyone*, as I need board approval, *and *there needs to be a good
business case for it, but I think the majority of the board and staff
believe that active chapter members should be able to get support like this
without too much hassle.
All the best,
Richard Symonds
Wikimedia UK
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