Board

Board (Formerly known as "Council")

As of February 2017, the board consists of:

• Chad Elish: President
• Geno Soroka: Secretary
• Dave Coakley: Operations
• James Hyde: Treasurer

Contact the Board

• To contact the entire board at once, email to info@hackpittsburgh.org

• David Coakley: dave@ our domain
• Chad Elish: chad@ our domain
• Geno Soroka: geno@ our domain
• James Hyde: james@ our domain

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Duties, Expectations

DRAFT subject to revision by board and membership

In addition to the duties laid out in the Constitution, Board members are expected to:

• Encourage members to work on projects, collectively and individually.
• Celebrate and promote members successes.
• Be in the shop.
  • Attend every membership meeting.
  • Be in the shop at least one night (not counting membership meetings) a week, ideally two.
• Email! Read your hackpittsburgh.org email regularly.
  • Use your hackpittsburgh.org email for all correspondence relating to your role as board member.
  • Do not conduct shop correspondence through personal email addresses, as that correspondence will be lost to the organization when you leave.
  • A lot of meetings can be avoided by conducting business through hackpittsburgh.org email.
  • Board members need to be responsive via email since we're only in the shop for direct interaction for a few hours a week.
• Arrange for Friday night event presentations/talks.
• Arrange for workshops, classes, etc.
• Make sure that the shop is being maintained (either directly or by volunteer of members):
  • Trash and recycling need to be taken care of
  • Keeping T-Shirts, water, plasticware, paper plates, paper towels, toilet paper in stock
  • Membership email lists
  • Tracking dues and reminders
  • Tracking blue box contents
• Work with the landlord on shop physical needs/concerns (typically one board member is designated to keep things simpler for Dale)
• Generally look to the long-term goals for the shop and help focus members on achieving those (i.e. general leadership).

Perks

• Leadership responsibilities and rewards.
• A set of keys to the shop. (RFID system makes this a perk for all members)