General Manager's Report to the Board of Twin Cities Free-Net

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.