Thanks Chris.
Interesting you chose to link to my unfinished peer review with WMEE, considering you asked me to halt my inter-chapter governance activities when you were the Chair of WMUK. If you think it is a good idea to allow me to finish the peer reviews I started, perhaps you should check with the board of WMUK so that I am can "officially" approach those involved to see if they think it would be worthwhile.
Fae
On 27/04/2014, Chris Keating chriskeatingwiki@gmail.com wrote:
Hi all,
I've started a page on Meta which I hope will act as a hub for documentation and ideas around the training and development needs of Wikimedia movement organisations:
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Organisational_development
I'd ask anyone who's interested in this kind of thing to have a look and add examples and thoughts for the future.
As many people will know from my contributions to this year's and last year's Wikimedia conference, or from the training workshop we held in London in early March, this is an issue where I feel the movement (or, at least, the part of the movement that is involved in movement organisations!) can and should do better.
I was interested to read the Signpost coverage of the Wikimedia Conference(1) which evidently comes from a similar point of view!
We are slightly hampered by the fact that there is no single body responsible for doing this kind of training and development work, so I would invite everyone with a stake in this (WMF, FDC, AffCom, Chapters, Thorgs, User Groups, interested individuals) to treat this as something where everyone can play a role in sharing experience, scoping out the way forward, and building a better way of doing this for the future!
Regards,
Chris
(1) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/2014-04-23