Thread:Thinking about communication process (4)

Hi Alison,

Yip --- progress is looking good.

The skills table is a great start. Thinking a little wider here that is the skills specification for future workgroups perhaps it would be better to invite the volunteer members of the workgroup to write a succinct statement of their relevant skills pertaining to the workgroup -- no more than a sentence with a link to their userpage. So for example in my case I could write something like:


 * Founder of WikiEducator, elected member of Council with governance, senior level management and leadership experience -- link to User page goes here.

In this way volunteers can identify their relevant experience and interests in a more flexible way and readers and reviewers can quickly scan the experience of the group.

Coming back to a point which I think you made earlier -- we should think about clarifying roles of workgroup participants:

eg Convenor / co-convenor -- responsible for:


 * Convening and facilitating workgroup discussions
 * Ensuring the development of a charter in accordance with the guidelines and recommended criteria
 * Taking responsibility for regular updates on the main list
 * Taking proactive initiative to ensure that volunteers are kept up to date (eg personal email, reminders of deadlines etc.)
 * Prepare final submission of the work group proposal for Council (in the case of community-wide workgroups).

Volunteer participants


 * Regularly visit the work group page
 * Contribute to discussions and draft reviews of the workgroup outputs
 * Aim to achieve consensus on relevant items

Other roles? Thoughts? Cheers Wayne