Management

Our Hackerspace Management

The management of Hive76 consists of the following officers/office The management is elected every 6 months, and replacements are elected at the next monthly meeting after someone resigns a position. All members of management are responsible for making themselves available to members to discretely address issues within the group.

President

Office Currently Held By: Brendan President is the public face of the space. They try to find new members, find people to teach classes/skills, events, etc

• The President ensures democracy takes place amongst the board, the management and the members of Hive76.
• The President is the contact for outside groups or people to contact, not related to publicity
• The President presides over all member, and board meetings
• The President checks up on all management roles to assure they are being completed
• The President makes emergency decisions when necessary

Quartermaster

Office Currently Held By: Pete Perreault The Quartermaster manages the physical space, making sure it runs smoothly and is reasonably clean and usable.

• Makes monthly trips/orders of parts
• Allocates space and storage to new members
• Checks the space to make sure it's kept clean
• Organizes regular cleanups
• Sets rules on how the space is used and makes sure they are followed for safety/sanity
• Keeps inventory and such

Treasurer

Office Currently Held By: Daniel Provenzano The Book Keeper manages the finances and dues, and makes sure they're managed run smoothly.

• Monthly review of the finances
• Updating the board/members of current financial status.
• Keeps track of what dues members owe
• Coordinates reimbursements of expenses for classes and general supplies
• Can approve expenses between $10 - $50.

Chief Technological Officer

Office Currently Held By: David Morfin The CTO keeps the website, mailing lists, and IRC channel running, and up to date.

• Watches for SPAM in comments and mailing lists
• Monthly checks the 'check in' sheet to add people to the announce mailing list
• Encourages people to edit the wiki, or contribute to the weblog
• Manages who has access to what online accounts
• Sets up new members with wiki/weblog/server admin, and teaches them to use the stuff.

Secretary

Office Currently Held By: Chris Thompson Keeps track of internal business, makes sure meetings and events happen. They keep an eye on the state of official projects.

• Keeps track of keys, forms, paperwork, etc.
• Runs the monthly meetings, and makes a list to current happenings for the last month sent to the members.
• Makes sure the monthly letter gets sent to the announce list.
• Keeps (or appoints a keeper) of official meeting minutes when they are needed
• responds to curious people who contact the [email protected] account

Events Coordinator

Office Currently Held By: PJ Events Coordinator coordinates events. This person will not plan events on his/her lonesome, but will instead help teachers and members make events.

• have periodic planning meetings to delegate individual events to responsible members and officers.
• He/she will establish a best-practices for holding events,
• ensure the quality of events being held, and make sure that anyone who wants to run an event has all the necessary knowledge and resources
• Keeps track of calendar of events (both in planning and happening) to make sure events don't collide
• The Event Coordinator is NOT in charge of the email sign-in-sheet but probably will end up doing it anyway.
• The Events Coordinator will write nice thank you's to people that run classes or events.

Publicist

Office Currently Held by: Chris Thompson The publicist ensures that Hive76 maintains a positive presence in online and in Philadelphia

• Communicates with newspapers, blogs, and other publications
• Posts related links to various link aggregation and social networking sites
• Gives tours of the space, and can direct questions to an appropriate individual, including management
• Probes members about projects, photos and videos to post