[Wikimedia-l] Proposal - Training for Wikimedia movement boards

[Balázs Viczián]

If you wish to educate board people, I think mailing lists and acronyms
should not cover a full bulletpoint of the event because they should have
that knowledge already....

I miss volunteer management in particular what is imo amongst the basic
skills (it is totally different in many ways from paid staff mgmt) and
fundraising. (Omg, we got a donation...what to do now? :)

I'd go for general project (and time and workflow...) management instead of
particular this and that kinda specific things. Imo first get the "big
picture", than the specific ones (Glam, editathon, etc.)

Are you plannig to hire a professional NGO trainer (individual[s])? A
training company specialized on NGOs? Or we should educate each other?

Cheers,
Balázs

2013/8/13 Ziko van Dijk <vandijk at wmnederland.nl>

> Hello,
> Indeed it seems to me possible to fill a whole master studies with the
> things a board member should know :-) but I know that he meant something
> different. It would be a could idea to have board members going to
> trainings to be a board member in the specific country where they live. A
> course of a weekend, for example, would be already a good help. Everything
> must remain a little bit realistic.
> Possibly, some board members are more open to other Wikimedians than people
> from the "outside world" - possibly not. Narrowing the target group down to
> chapter board members to "staff chapters" is a good step, and I share the
> arguments on the Meta page. Maybe one should let participants apply for the
> seminar in a similar way as to Wikimania, in order to have those
> participants most likely to succeed. For example, if someone is already
> more than a year board member and likely to remain at least on a board for
> another year, that would be a pro.
> Kind regards
> Ziko
>
>
> Am Dienstag, 13. August 2013 schrieb David Gerard :
>
> > On 13 August 2013 15:39, Federico Leva (Nemo) <nemowiki at gmail.com
> <javascript:;>>
> > wrote:
> >
> > > True. Even worse, many do not even try to be board members (or active
> > > chapter members, for that matter) because they (think they) don't have
> > > enough experience. It's crucial to ensure the availability of growing
> > paths
> > > (usually informal) for volunteers or you lose them and they lose
> > > opportunities.
> > > For me, it's been crucial to be told by a prof. "you can learn the job
> > of a
> > > [university] board member in 6 months" (so it's inexcusable if you
> don't,
> > > but you must try). He was right.
> >
> >
> > A very useful book: Nonprofit Kit For Dummies by Stan Hutton and
> > Frances Phillips. I so wish I'd read it 25 years before I did. Very
> > US-centric, but informative outside that.
> >
> >
> > - d.
> >
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