Inkscape Project/Community Coordinator position

Date of discussion: 2021-05-30, BigBlueButton video

The details were the live notes taken at the time of the meeting. These need to be redrafted after a discussion with the board, this drafting process will focus on matching some of the requirements in this document with real world job descriptions to standardise the language:

  • Preferably fulltime position (maybe to be seen with SFC what they think about it, based on their experience with other SFC projects)
  • From anywhere in the world.

Administration

  • Help the project maintain contact with the SFC, document the communication with the SFC and keep the logs available (+ document the administrative side of Inkscape in general)

  • Keep a list of all points of contact; maintain overview of people, teams, infrastructure providers, sponsors etc.(CRM)

General

  • write and publish a monthly report to community on own activity (blog post, accountability)

  • prepare monthly updates for different parts of the project, such as a creating a newsletter which describes the key developments of each of the teams so other parts of the project can quickly understand more of what is being decided by teams.

  • Create an asset map of the project team / community (as in: what skills, time budget, services, ... are available)

Development support

  • Making digest reports what got merged/fixed in master on monthly basis ???

  • Should communicate in between teams and keep ppl acountable to their tasks

  • Keep an eye on the issue trackers and raise important issues with developers?

Community support

  • Community management in general, enabling information flow between teams (maybe even CoC?)

  • Make proposals/compile requests for spending money based on team feedback (?)

  • Documentation about processes (for instance around the release) and coordination (making sure information flows efficiently across teams)

Conditions

  • Can make decisions about ? independently
  • Board decides on task priorisation(?)/tasks and votes in cases of disagreement

Will not do any of the following:

  • Evaluation of other projects to steal ideas. <- This is the UX/Design team
  • Managing fund raising campaigns for sponsors and donors <- This is currently (? unfinished sentence) (I, Tav, disagree with this. If this is going to be a full time position, this should be included.)
  • Facilitating the project's relationship with the SFC <- Ted Gould on the board
  • Prepare and manage the budget <- Handled by the board.
Edited by Tavmjong Bah