Hi Keith, Hi all, 2013/5/9 Keith N. McKenna <[email protected]>
> Edwin Sharp wrote: > >> Volunteers need personal guidance from more experienced volunteers. >> >> It is easy to give up trying to figure out what to do on your own. >> >> Endless nested emails don't help. >> >> Volunteers should be given levels according to their time in the >> project. >> >> So a level three is guiding level two, level two is guiding level >> one etc. >> >> When a fresh volunteer joins, the head of the project is assigning >> him a personal tutor. >> >> With a close guidance, learning, confidence and motivation are much >> better. >> >> > Edwin; > > The ideas are very good. The question is one of manpower and knowledge. > At the momnt we do not have active volunteers with knowledge in tech > writing and publishing processes to do the tutoring and hand holding. If > you have any ideas on how we can recruit people at that level we would > love to hear them. > Amha, some people with the required skills are already present in the list. But they are perhaps always active in their professional life and don't have the available time to do the job. So, these people could perhaps be more available for punctual tasks. Why not try to find directly retired people who have been worked in this area, retired journalists, etc. They could perhaps accept to coach and organize le project on a more global manner, if they have more available time. Only a thought A+ -- gw > >
