Wikiducation Belgium/Volunteer Personal Development Initiative

The Volunteer Personal Development Initiative(VPDI) is a sideproject of Wikiducation project, about training for off-wiki volunteers.

Target audience

• off-wiki volunteers are the volunteers that organise events, activities, with the WMBE chapter
• give presentations about wiki, mentor newbees
• run GLAM projects
• organise edit-a-thons and wik-nics
• organise lectures, conferences, seminars
• help run the chapter
• organise wikiparties and other occasion involving beer food

Objectives

Wikiducation objectives are :

• recruit new off-wiki volunteers
• train/educate off-wiki volunteers to organisationall skills, planning & program management, financial management, evaluation and reporting, press and communications
• teaching and presentation skils
• mentorship for the newbees
• skills and comptences for GLAM-projects, Wikimedian in residence projects, content donations , metrics, advocacy and lobbying
• in general acquire and train skills and competences for volunteering in the Wikimedia- environement
• attend as skilled participants in events like Wiki-education Collaboratie, Wikimania or Wiki Affiliate conferences

Activities

• identify recuitment needs
• make recruitment materials