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PADNUG Organization:
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proven way to structure user group management is by having clearly defined
roles and responsibilities. PADNUG's organizational structure is as follows:
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President
(Rich Claussen)
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The
president's role is to be the master-of-ceremonies, ensuring the meetings run
smoothly and maintaining a high membership approval rating of the group. The
president solicits sponsorships to help offset group logistic funding,
giveaways, or other special events. The president is the final decision maker
regarding group activities.
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Vice
President
(Lee
Williamson)
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The
Vice President should be able to fulfill all the responsibilities of the
President in the event the president is not available.
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Speaker
Coodinator
(Phil
Weber)
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Responsible
for liaising with speakers, including:
Obtaining bio/abstract and updating the meeting info on the website accordingly
Making sure audio/visual needs are met at the venue
Thanks the speaker and presents him/her with a gift
If the speaker requires reimbursement, coordinating with the treasurer
Basically ensures the speaker experience is a good one
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Treasurer
(Lee
Williamson)
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The
Treasurer is responsible for the funds, both from corporate/organizational
sponsorships as well as membership dues, if PADNUG dues are ever collected.
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List Moderator
(Arnie Rowland) |
Makes sure no attacks
(anything libelous) on people or companies occurs on the list
Ensures spam-related email does not enter the list
Makes sure conversations stay on-topic for PADNUG-related discussions
Maintains mailing list user subscription and assists list members with any
list-related issues
Basically takes care of the list
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| Outreach Coordinator (Rich
Claussen) |
Advertises meetings and events
to mailing lists, newspapers, other UG's, and other appropriate media
Responsible for determining and implementing effective ways to promote PADNUG
and expand membership
Assists Speaker Coordinator and Event Coordinator as needed
Basically drives excitement for PADNUG in the local area
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Website
Administrator
(Lee
Williamson)
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The
website director is responsible for all things related to the website. This
will include maintaining the site, keeping the content current, and maintaining
the data backend, such as the membership database.
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Chris Goldfarb is a Senior Software Architect for the Intel Software Solutions
Group, and has been writing software for ten years. .NET has been Chris' main
focus since the pre-beta bits were released, and has both developed
applications and trained others on the framework. He has travelled as far as
Russia to train engineers on .NET.
Chris represented Intel's .NET efforts as a speaker at the .NET Showcase
Theater in the 2001 Microsoft Professional Developer's Conference in Los
Angeles, and has presented .NET topics twice to over 800 engineers of the Intel
Developer's User Group. He is a board member of the Intel e-Business Group .NET
Taskforce and International .NET Association. Chris is Microsoft certified in
.NET and has been awarded Microsoft Most Valuable Professional (MVP) status as
Microsoft Visual Developer and Visual C#.
Prior to joining Intel in January 2001, he engineered mission-critical
applications for the United States Air Force, United States Strategic Command.
These applications included early-warning, ballistic missile flight path, and
nuclear readiness assessment systems.
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Lee Williamson is Senior Web Engineer. and has been writing software for over 20
years; starting with a cassette-driven Radio Shack TRS-80 in 1980.
ASP.Net web development has been his primary programming focus for over 3
years, starting with Beta 1.
Lee has deleloped web sites for UCLA, Nestle, Corp, Intel, and Microsoft.
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Rich Claussen is a Software Engineering student at the Oregon Institute of
Technology. He is graduating Magna Cum Laude and is a member of the respected
engineering honor society, Tau Alpha Pi.
Before returning to his high school sweetheart of programming, he spent several
years working with InFocus Corporation as a business analyst. There, he
developed reporting systems, process improvements, and prepared the service
organization for the arrival of Y2K.
Rich began working with computers over twenty-five years ago on a paper terminal
at his local school. From there, he moved on to TRS-80s, Commodore PETs, and
had his own Apple //e on which he taught himself BASIC, PASCAL, and assembler.
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