{"id":1993,"date":"2022-06-06T18:47:00","date_gmt":"2022-06-06T21:47:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/felipeelia.com.br\/?p=1993"},"modified":"2022-06-06T19:18:29","modified_gmt":"2022-06-06T22:18:29","slug":"the-senior-volunteer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/felipeelia.dev\/the-senior-volunteer\/","title":{"rendered":"The senior volunteer"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
Did you already realize that not all volunteers have the same characteristics? How nonprofit communities are similar to business companies? How do some open-source<\/em> group members seem to handle everything? We will talk about this and some related problems and solutions in this post.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Everything will get easier if we start to think about seniority in volunteer work.<\/p>\n\n\n\n When we talk about seniority, we are talking about several different characteristics. In our specific case here, two of them are the most important: responsibility and experience<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n By responsibility, I mean task ownership<\/strong>. If you ask this volunteer to handle catering of an event, you don’t need to call him one day before to confirm how things are going. You can trust them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n In our context, experience is to know what needs to be done<\/strong>. In the Brazilian WordPress community, for example, we have a group focused on translation and localization. The senior volunteer knows how the group is organized, that we have a glossary and a style guide, etc.<\/p>\n\n\n\nWho are the senior volunteers<\/em>?<\/h2>\n\n\n\n