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
[edit]- 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
[edit]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
[edit]- identify recuitment needs
- make recruitment materials