Last modified: 2014-10-05 08:05:56 UTC
Hi there, we held a pre-conference before Wikimania in London with people being involved in Volunteers-Support. In order to exchange experiences, best practices and also failures, we would like to set up a mailing list volunteersupport@lists.wikimedia.org Thank you very much for your support and my very best wishes, Muriel
What is "volunteers support" exactly? Can mean many things; description welcome.
This list would be suited for people being involved or interested in Volunteer- and Community Support in the Wikimedia Movement. E.g. it let's us coordinate the jobs we do as Community Liaisons, Community Consultants, Members of a Team Communities or Community Managers among Chapters, Volunteers and the Wikimedia Foundation.
Hi Andre, may I ask what's the status on the mailinglist? We would very much like to use it as soon as possible. Thanks for your help and my best wishes, Muriel
James: ping? (Nothing I can set up myself, sorry.)
hmm, honestly I don't like the name. volunteersupport@ sounds very much like you are using the list itself to give volunteer support (as in 'if you need help email here!') and not a discussion list for a wide and general group of people who might be interested in supporting volunteers. How about something like community-facing-roles@ (with or without the - )? Open to other suggestions from you or from any of the others active in mailing list creation (TheHelpfulOne is on CC I know). I'm also, honestly, a bit skeptical that this list will be able to live up to it's goals given the very broad and diverse jobs the groups use (I think volunteer support is just a bit too broad given the context in the community) but my skepticism does not mean it can't be tried or that the list can't be created :) I just want to make sure we have a proper name.
Hi Andre & James, thanks a lot for your feedback. I talked to people from Austria and Germany about this challenge, and we are very much in favour of giving the list the following name: "volunteer-supporters@" We think, this describes better our role as supporters - and not as the ones being supported. We would appreciate it a lot if you could help us to set up this list (volunteer-supporters). Thanks very much and our very best wishes, Muriel
Hi James, would it be possible to set up the list sometime before Sunday? It's WikiCon this weekend in Cologne and we would very much like to work on/with the list already starting this weekend. Thanks a lot for your support. Best, Muriel
(In reply to Muriel Staub from comment #7) > Hi James, > > would it be possible to set up the list sometime before Sunday? > It's WikiCon this weekend in Cologne and we would very much like to work > on/with the list already starting this weekend. > Thanks a lot for your support. > Best, > Muriel Sorry for the delay, usually I let some of the volunteers do it but it looks like they're busy (which is totally understandable). I've created the list for you and you should have an email with the initial admin password, usually we would wait and ask you some of the initial settings but because of the time pressure I have set it up currently as a list with public archives but requiring approval to subscribe. You can of course set it to not require approval if you want it to be more open (and I encourage you to do so). Let me know if you have any issues or need any help. Others can subscribe at https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/volunteer-supporters
