<div dir="ltr"><div>Cameron, I think your point about conversational traffic is a really good one. I've been involved in several communities over time and one of the best ways I've found to increase volunteer engagement is simply to keep speaking where I can be heard. <br></div><div><br></div><div>These days most of that goes on using Slack, which is probably not the best choice for this group, but there are similar good alternatives eg. <a href="https://about.mattermost.com/">https://about.mattermost.com/</a><br></div><br></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On 1 May 2018 at 18:01, Phillip Smith via linux-aus <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:linux-aus@lists.linux.org.au" target="_blank">linux-aus@lists.linux.org.au</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote"><span class="">On 1 May 2018 at 08:30, Cameron Shorter via linux-aus <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:linux-aus@lists.linux.org.au" target="_blank">linux-aus@lists.linux.org.au</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
<div bgcolor="#FFFFFF" text="#000000">What do others in the committee and on this list think? Would it
help with attracting volunteer engagement? <br>
<br></div></blockquote></span><div><br><div style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif;display:inline" class="gmail_default">LA has a definite problem with engagement in my experience. Personally I have volunteered to assist 2 LCA teams in any capacity; both said yes but did not follow through. I also volunteered multiple times to assist with SysAdmin duties back when LA servers were compromised (2015/2016?). Part of LA's response to that incident was to seek additional volunteers, yet even after I made a face-to-face follow up to my emails, I never received any reply to my offer.<br></div><div style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif;display:inline" class="gmail_default">I have since moved on to other volunteer roles so my offer is now null and void, but when the call is made requesting volunteers, responses are made and to never even get a reply is throwing away goodwill in my eyes. Perhaps it was just me, in which case a "thanks but no thanks" communication would have been courteous.<br></div><div style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif;display:inline" class="gmail_default"></gripe><br><br></div><div style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif;display:inline" class="gmail_default">So in the spirit of being constructive.... Perhaps LA needs to appoint some kind of public volunteer manager that can act as a central point for contact in recruiting volunteers, then facilitate and follow-through on contact and "on-boarding" of the people that are what make the organization?<br><br></div><div style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif;display:inline" class="gmail_default">My $0.02 GST-free.<br></div></div></div></div></div>
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