General Manager's Report to the Board of Twin Cities Free-Net
April 23, 1998
volunteer reorganization
- Confirmed the commitment of existing committee chairs to serve for
the near future.
- Created and distributed a volunteer questionnaire to all known
volunteers and readers of the tcfn-volunteers mailing list.
- Compiled responses in a custom HyperCard database with plain-text output.
- Distributed lists of interested volunteers to committee chairs and
encouraged delegation of responsibility.
- Selected Dave Anderson to serve as assistant general manager. His
role will be to follow along with what I'm doing and offer suggestions or
criticism, and to help tide the Free-Net over if I should become
unavailable. David Woolley and I will meet with him on April 25.
- Selected Eric Harvieux and Eva Young to chair a committee to review
and redesign the Free-Net's Web presence. Eric has done Web work for TCFN
before and will serve as the primary contact for the committee. Eva is a
professional Web designer. They have more than two dozen eager volunteers
at their disposal. The committee's work will be subject to my approval
for the near future.
- Plan to meet with three committee chairs on
April 25 to work on selecting volunteers to handle delegated
responsibilities.
evaluation project
- Discovered that two volunteers, Shari Hathaway and Dr. A. Baker, had
already created a survey for distribution to the TCFN membership. Worked
with them to finalize and distribute the survey. I feel that the
responses, properly interpreted, will help us to refine and improve our
user-support methods and our plans for expansion of Caucus usership.
- Once I become more familiar with the system, I hope to work with David
Woolley to obtain usership statistics directly from the SGI server and
member database in the future, to make surveys less necessary.
miscellaneous
- Tony Stubblebine has been awarded Grinnell College's Noyce/Intel
Technology Summer Internship Grant and will interning with us for ten
40-hour weeks this summer. His area of interest is system administration,
particularly designing and documenting maintenance routines. To learn
more about Tony, visit http://math.grin.edu/~stubbleb.
This document created by Ben Stallings, 4/19/98.