Directors

Directors are volunteer-members that have accepted certain responsibility at hackrva. We are always interested in new talent to progress hackrva's mission, so please let us know if you are interested in a director role or want to be active helping an existing director. We believe one of the best ways to ensure sustainability at hackrva is to always be looking for fresh leadership.

List of Acting Directors

Kent Durvin - Member Experience

• Member Experience: Maintains communication with members in real time on facebook and mailing list. Helps mailing list for friendliness and health. Helps guide members to appropriate resources or people for their needs or concerns. Leads and addresses immediate concerns of space such as keeping things stocked and clean etc. Keeps member experience and hackrva values as a focus for business meetings and members.

Dustin Firebaugh - Technical Infrastructure and New Media

• Technical Infrastructure: Keep internet, computers, and video stuff running. Guides decisions about what to implement and what to buy w/r/t computers and servers.
• New Media: Takes lead on areas such as video production, novel web assets, video games, human interface devices, animation, digital modeling, and virtual reality. Seeks opportunities to strengthen hackrva in these areas through purchases, events, and workshops.

Michael Lane - Finance and Facilities

• Finance: Ensures solvency of space. Pays bills, collects dues, processes donations. Completes budgetary reporting and taxes. Controls space purchasing.
• Facilities: Leads in considering the betterment of space facilities.

Jonathan Lundquist - Safety

• Leads the way on safety at the space. Looks for opportunities to improve our facilities to be more safe as well as training people to be more safe.

Shellie Lundquist - Community Outreach and Diversity

• Community Outreach: Strengthens our community through event planning. Considers outside events and relationships with other groups in Richmond and abroad.
• Diversity: Leads HackRVA in issues of member diversity. Ensures hackrva is inviting and comfortable for all people

Aaron Nipper - Planning & Communication

• Planning: Helps other directors with their goals and programs. Works on long term plans for space growth and improvement. Looks for global ways to improve space.
• Communication: Leads updating of website, blogs, and wiki. Works to communicate with members and other related groups in Richmond. Gets the word out about HackRVA.
• Education (interim): Insures education initiatives are met.

Specific Task Details

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Director Openings

We are actively seeking multiple directors. Possibilities such as Director for Education and a Director for Blogging/Branding/Advertising are some that have been tossed around. We are also fine with members creating new directorships to encompass a role they are interested in filling or pursuing. Just pitch your idea. Another good method is to work with an existing director with the goal of splitting the "And" in their title, essentially splitting duties between two directors for what is currently one.

We encourage any member with the will, determination, and excellence (or a pulse) to pursue a director role. See the the criteria below to get started. There's plenty work, and even more learning opportunities and satisfaction. Talk to one of the existing directors or come to a business meeting to find out more.

Guidelines to be Considered for a Director Position

• Must be a member for at least one year.
• Must have attended 4 of the last 6 business meetings.
• Must be considered by existing directors and approved.
• Must teach one workshop and assist in one event during the last year.
• Must create a clear range of responsibilities for directorship or be willing to fulfill an existing if they are taking over from another director.
• Must be approved by an up-down vote of attending members at a leadership meeting.

Guidelines for Existing Directors

• Should attend 6 business meetings per year.
• Should give occasional updates on their area of responsibility.
• Should recruit a person or committee to assist in their duties if possible.
• Should run at least one workshop or event per year.
• Should create a personal wiki-page for our community to know them better.
• Should try one novel, new, or interesting idea per year of their own devising (or a new twist on an existing one).