User:RobLa/Volunteer welfare DRAFT

DRAFT - Started by User:RobLa during the 2020-03-12 board meeting, this is a work-in-progress. Copied from welfare DRAFT staff:Volunteer welfare DRAFT at 06:02, 1 April 2020 (UTC)

The Miraheze community relies heavily on volunteer morale in order to function smoothly. User:Southparkfan has asked for help taking steps (both proactive and reactive, as appropriate) to ensure that Miraheze works toward ensuring a mutually fulfilling volunteer experience (for both Miraheze and its volunteers).

As of 2020-03-13, only the reactive portions of the regimen have been formalized. In particular, a Miraheze operates under a Code of Conduct to provide guidelines for community behavior. Escalations to the Code of Conduct/Commission are sometimes necessary when conflict arises.


 * The short term plan: boost morale to reduce the risk that people channel their inner Eric Cartman (declaring "Screw You Guys I'm Going Home", and leave the project)
 * The medium-to-long term plan: take steps to ensure that things never get close to that point

Plan for completion

 * User:RobLa plans to correspond with the Code of Conduct/Commission, with the goal of better understanding the current state, and the needs of the community and its leadership
 * The Code of Conduct/Commission is currently composed of User:Void, User:Reception123, User:Dmehus, and User:RhinosF1, per Code of Conduct/Commission/Members.
 * The main thing is to handle both the urgent and important aspects fo volunteer management. Getting people to cool it when they need to, and figure out who is on the verge of quitting before they get to that point.

Status
See User talk:RobLa/Volunteer welfare DRAFT

Journal
Reverse chronological status:


 * 2020-03-31 - User:RobLa technically fulfills his promise to get this published by the end of the month. Technically (since it's still 2020-03-31 in San Francisco)...
 * 2020-03-29 - Miraheze wiki migrations complete, and the SRE team figures out many of the performance issues. \o/ yay! \o/
 * 2020-03-16 through 2020-03-29 - the world figures out just how serious this COVID-19 thing is
 * 2020-03-12 - User:RobLa agrees to work with the Code of Conduct/Commission during the board meeting to publish a volunteer welfare plan