Advisory Board/Volunteerism

Group report: Angela Beesley, Mako Hill, Erik Möller, Achal Prabhala

Mainly a collection of ideas on how to increase volunteer participation in WM:

• Better cross-networking of projects
  • Concrete outcome: get in one click from any project to other projects
• Clearly highlight volunteer participation opportunities, both on the level of projects & organization / mission-related activities; modeled after "Contribute to Ubuntu" wiki page.
• Facilitate project teams beyond the rather heavyweight structure of chapters (WikiTeams)
  • Encourage free association in different forms: around topics, goals, projects, regions, languages
  • Concrete outcome: "One local team in countries with >1000 contributors"
  • Low overhead reporting (e.g. blogging requirement)
• Collect data-set of contributors and reader patterns
  • Where do people come from, which articles do they read, etc.?
• "Volunteer drive" analogous to fundraising drive
• Team info packages
• Third party info packages
• Speaker coordination database
• Contract clauses for third parties that require WP documentation
• Newsletter-equivalent communications technology for informing users about volunteer opportunities