I won't be able to make the volunteer strategy meeting tomorrow, sadly. In case anyone's interested, I've written another of my reflective essays, this time about evaluation and metrics. https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:MartinPoulter/Tales_of_Evaluation
The questions I would have been taking to the event are: 1) When I want Wikimedia UK to support events like the Wikipedia Science Conference in future, how much advance notice, planning etc. will be needed? 2) We've had situations where a charitable partner has come forward with a hundred pounds, or a thousand pounds, and volunteer support, to make an event happen at quite short notice, but we need a bit of staff time to follow through. Will the project-based way of working present any barriers to taking those opportunities?
Hopefully some written guides will come out of the day?
On 24 July 2015 at 14:15, Martin Poulter infobomb@gmail.com wrote:
I won't be able to make the volunteer strategy meeting tomorrow, sadly. In case anyone's interested, I've written another of my reflective essays, this time about evaluation and metrics. https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:MartinPoulter/Tales_of_Evaluation
Always interesting to have accounts of the history from those actually
involved.
On outreach and metrics: there is the "Micawber metric" which is more of a caricature - "something may well turn up". One has to be careful of that as something to steer by, clearly.
I won't pre-empt the VSG, in dealing with your two questions.
Charles
Thanks Martin - very interesting thoughts.
Chris
On Fri, Jul 24, 2015 at 2:15 PM, Martin Poulter infobomb@gmail.com wrote:
I won't be able to make the volunteer strategy meeting tomorrow, sadly. In case anyone's interested, I've written another of my reflective essays, this time about evaluation and metrics. https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:MartinPoulter/Tales_of_Evaluation
The questions I would have been taking to the event are:
- When I want Wikimedia UK to support events like the Wikipedia Science
Conference in future, how much advance notice, planning etc. will be needed? 2) We've had situations where a charitable partner has come forward with a hundred pounds, or a thousand pounds, and volunteer support, to make an event happen at quite short notice, but we need a bit of staff time to follow through. Will the project-based way of working present any barriers to taking those opportunities?
Hopefully some written guides will come out of the day?
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