Hello folks.
If anyone is interested in the sharing economy, and would like to attend this event, please let me know. We can try and arrange something.
Thank you,
Stevie
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* Dear Stevie, * You are invited to the following event: Recognising Value - Innovation, Relationships and the Sharing Economy https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/recognising-value-innovation-relationships-and-the-sharing-economy-tickets-10922506511?ref=enivtefor001&invite=NTM3OTIxMS9zdGV2aWUuYmVudG9uQHdpa2ltZWRpYS5vcmcudWsvMA%3D%3D&utm_source=eb_email&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=inviteformal001&utm_term=eventpage [image: divider]
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Tuesday, 29 April 2014 from 12:00 to 17:30 (BST)
*Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park* E20 2ST United Kingdom
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Event registration is by invitation only. Register with your email address to attend this event. [image: divider] The sharing economy is the talk of the town.
There's certainly been a global shift in the business paradigm towards a new mode of collaborative commerce, followed closely and supported by Central Government.
There is much the London Legacy Development Corporation can learn from these models to redefine an approach to regeneration in and around Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park. But what could the sharing economy bring to established charities or businesses? And what could this landscape look like a decade from now?
In your role as innovators, business, thought leaders and practitioners, LLDC and Echo [link] would like to invite you to an opportunity to explore and harness the growth and potential that can be unlocked through the sharing economy - for our industries, and for the communities we sit within.
The conversation starts with lunch on 29th April at 12 noon and continues from 5.30 with a drinks reception. [image: eventbrite]
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On 18/03/2014, Stevie Benton stevie.benton@wikimedia.org.uk wrote:
Hello folks.
If anyone is interested in the sharing economy, and would like to attend this event, please let me know. We can try and arrange something.
Thank you,
Stevie
I am unsure as to why Wikimedia UK would want to promote a collaborative commerce conversation (as the LLDC and Echo describe the event), rather than ensuring our members and volunteers take part in open knowledge conferences and events. This appears to be a business/charity networking social of the 'big society' format. Lots of people are interested in the issues of the sharing economy (I am an active support of freecycling); but this seems a long way from Wikimedia projects, if the intention was to pay expenses for someone to attend and write a blog post about it.
If anyone has spare time we have a lot of past GLAM (and University) contacts from editathons that could do with practical follow up, or support finishing creating articles and making use of media uploads. The issue for the backlog of properly completing past projects is attracting active and productive volunteers (globally), which seems a pressing issue compared to the benefits to the charity of creating a bigger list of potential commercial, political and NFP partner organizations.
Fae
Perhaps part of the reason that we struggle to recruit is that we don't publicly take part in events in related topics. An event like this has a communications budget far in excess of our own, we might as well take advantage of it. We should have someone charismatic there to present on behalf of the community.
*Edward Saperia* Chief Coordinator Wikimania London http://www.wikimanialondon.org email ed@wikimanialondon.org * facebookhttp://www.facebook.com/edsaperia * twitter http://www.twitter.com/edsaperia * 07796955572 133-135 Bethnal Green Road, E2 7DG
On 18 March 2014 12:05, Fæ faewik@gmail.com wrote:
On 18/03/2014, Stevie Benton stevie.benton@wikimedia.org.uk wrote:
Hello folks.
If anyone is interested in the sharing economy, and would like to attend this event, please let me know. We can try and arrange something.
Thank you,
Stevie
I am unsure as to why Wikimedia UK would want to promote a collaborative commerce conversation (as the LLDC and Echo describe the event), rather than ensuring our members and volunteers take part in open knowledge conferences and events. This appears to be a business/charity networking social of the 'big society' format. Lots of people are interested in the issues of the sharing economy (I am an active support of freecycling); but this seems a long way from Wikimedia projects, if the intention was to pay expenses for someone to attend and write a blog post about it.
If anyone has spare time we have a lot of past GLAM (and University) contacts from editathons that could do with practical follow up, or support finishing creating articles and making use of media uploads. The issue for the backlog of properly completing past projects is attracting active and productive volunteers (globally), which seems a pressing issue compared to the benefits to the charity of creating a bigger list of potential commercial, political and NFP partner organizations.
Fae
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On 18 March 2014 12:12, Edward Saperia ed@wikimanialondon.org wrote:
Perhaps part of the reason that we struggle to recruit is that we don't publicly take part in events in related topics. An event like this has a communications budget far in excess of our own, we might as well take advantage of it. We should have someone charismatic there to present on behalf of the community.
"Promotion" and "networking" is a rationale we have put forward many times before for paying for conference/event attendees. Often the money is put up based on commitments to write a blog post or an internal report. For a speculative, principality social networking event, the lost opportunity cost of volunteer and employee time and expenses should be justified with measurable reported outcomes, such as increased project participation, content creation or productive long term partnerships with other organizations.
The charity is accountable and committed to transparency, so if money and time is spent in ways with no direct outcome that benefits Wikimedia projects or the open knowledge aims of the charity, we should expect questions to be raised. In my view, and that of several other members, an example of a poor decision was sending an inexperienced new volunteer for an all expenses paid weekend at a Berlin conference last year, there was a blog post afterwards with ideas, none has provided any measurable outcomes in the several months since; in fact the volunteer has been completely inactive in terms of creating educational content for Wikimedia projects.[1][2]
If there were a couple of conference that we could see made a real difference to finding new active volunteers for Wikimedia projects or where highly productive long term partnerships with organizations were started, then I would prefer to see the charity provide scholarships for several active volunteers to take part or attend. The key here is measurement of outcomes, something that the new board have made a fuss about in the new strategy and should be a natural part of the way the charity works and makes decisions about where to spend its £700,000+; keeping its active volunteers at the centre of the decision making process.
Links 1. https://wikimedia.org.uk/wiki/Water_cooler/2013#Diversity_Conference_-_how_m... 2. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Contributions/Kwaku_BBM
Fae
Then if we are to approach this more realistically, the outcomes should be measured on a longer scale. You do not develop a network from a single networking event. And certainly I'd prioritise this for more established community members. Certainly I'd see community integration as a significant positive outcome for the chapter.
I'd be very keen to see a dedicated technical community manager as a paid role, who would mostly spend their time going to London tech events and representing the movement.
*Edward Saperia* Chief Coordinator Wikimania London http://www.wikimanialondon.org email ed@wikimanialondon.org * facebookhttp://www.facebook.com/edsaperia * twitter http://www.twitter.com/edsaperia * 07796955572 133-135 Bethnal Green Road, E2 7DG
On 18 March 2014 13:12, Fæ faewik@gmail.com wrote:
On 18 March 2014 12:12, Edward Saperia ed@wikimanialondon.org wrote:
Perhaps part of the reason that we struggle to recruit is that we don't publicly take part in events in related topics. An event like this has a communications budget far in excess of our own, we might as well take advantage of it. We should have someone charismatic there to present on behalf of the community.
"Promotion" and "networking" is a rationale we have put forward many times before for paying for conference/event attendees. Often the money is put up based on commitments to write a blog post or an internal report. For a speculative, principality social networking event, the lost opportunity cost of volunteer and employee time and expenses should be justified with measurable reported outcomes, such as increased project participation, content creation or productive long term partnerships with other organizations.
The charity is accountable and committed to transparency, so if money and time is spent in ways with no direct outcome that benefits Wikimedia projects or the open knowledge aims of the charity, we should expect questions to be raised. In my view, and that of several other members, an example of a poor decision was sending an inexperienced new volunteer for an all expenses paid weekend at a Berlin conference last year, there was a blog post afterwards with ideas, none has provided any measurable outcomes in the several months since; in fact the volunteer has been completely inactive in terms of creating educational content for Wikimedia projects.[1][2]
If there were a couple of conference that we could see made a real difference to finding new active volunteers for Wikimedia projects or where highly productive long term partnerships with organizations were started, then I would prefer to see the charity provide scholarships for several active volunteers to take part or attend. The key here is measurement of outcomes, something that the new board have made a fuss about in the new strategy and should be a natural part of the way the charity works and makes decisions about where to spend its £700,000+; keeping its active volunteers at the centre of the decision making process.
Links
https://wikimedia.org.uk/wiki/Water_cooler/2013#Diversity_Conference_-_how_m... 2. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Contributions/Kwaku_BBM
Fae
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On 18 Mar 2014, at 13:33, Edward Saperia ed@wikimanialondon.org wrote:
I'd be very keen to see a dedicated technical community manager as a paid role, who would mostly spend their time going to London tech events and representing the movement.
That would be really bad on multiple levels - two obvious ones being that staff should be 'supporting' not 'representing' the movement, and such work really shouldn't be London-centric.
Thanks, Mike
I'd be very keen to see a dedicated technical community manager as a
paid role, who would mostly spend their time going to London tech events and representing the movement.
That would be really bad on multiple levels - two obvious ones being that staff should be 'supporting' not 'representing' the movement,
Surely recruitment of new volunteers is supporting the movement.
and such work really shouldn't be London-centric.
Well, we can pay for them to travel around as well, but there is a concentration of talent and community activity in London, and our office is located there.
On 18 March 2014 13:57, Edward Saperia ed@originalcontentlondon.com wrote:
That would be really bad on multiple levels - two obvious ones being that staff should be 'supporting' not 'representing' the movement,
Surely recruitment of new volunteers is supporting the movement.
Note, that for the original socializing event that Stevie posted about, it is very unlikely that attendees will be potential new volunteers. They may represent organizations with their own networks of volunteers, but then we even have trustees on our board who are employed in organizations with extremely large and relevant volunteer networks, and yet this has not resulted in any measurable growth in our membership or active volunteers - in fact the numbers continue to remain almost static when compared to the volunteer led annual doubling in growth we could measure before we set up an office 3 years ago.[1]
Links 1. https://wikimedia.org.uk/wiki/Membership/numbers, https://wikimedia.org.uk/wiki/Volunteers/numbers
Fae
On 18 March 2014 13:33, Edward Saperia ed@wikimanialondon.org wrote:
Then if we are to approach this more realistically, the outcomes should be measured on a longer scale. You do not develop a network from a single networking event. And certainly I'd prioritise this for more established community members. Certainly I'd see community integration as a significant positive outcome for the chapter.
I'd be very keen to see a dedicated technical community manager as a paid role, who would mostly spend their time going to London tech events and representing the movement.
Luckily Wikimedia UK is not new and there is no need to "reset the clock" for proposals such as this. Given the several years of history of funding volunteers and employees to attend and support events, it should be possible for the existing employees to analyse the record and work out the true value of outcomes against the major conferences and social events we have supported in the past. If the value is high for some we should send more volunteers (!) if the value is nil, let's stop spending money on it. :-)
Per Mike's point, if this were seen as a fund to support tech-aware regular volunteers and appropriately skilled employees to represent the charity at different events, there is less of an issue with London-centrism. In essence we already have the fund, we just lack the process of measurement of outcomes to improve how it is spent.
Fae
In essence we already have the fund, we just lack the process of measurement of outcomes to improve how it is spent.
I agree, this is very difficult. And it's not just the metrics themselves, but learning as an organisation what are realistic outcomes for a given investment, and how significant they are in the grand scheme of things.
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