It hasn't been common practice thus far, but that's more due to risk aversion on
the part of the WMUK board than anything culturally to do with the country. I'll spare
you all my opinions on that subject; suffice to say I'm pleased to see it changing.
Very much a step in the right direction.
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From: Deryck Chan <deryckchan(a)gmail.com>
To: UK Wikimedia mailing list <wikimediauk-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org>
Sent: Thursday, 21 June 2012, 22:01
Subject: Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Wikimedia UK Business Cards
Am thrilled to see that WMUK is recognising its non-board member-volunteers in a tangible
way!
(I've got business cards from WMHK for a while now and some of you have seen them -
for a long time I thought giving regular volunteers official business cards isn't
common practice in this country... maybe it still isn't)
Deryck
On Jun 21, 2012 5:25 PM, "Richard Symonds"
<richard.symonds(a)wikimedia.org.uk> wrote:
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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