Maker Nexus operating teams

Teams

The board of directors can't do all the work required to open the makerspace. We need your help. We have a list of teams that need members to help, and we'd really like to have someone step forward to lead each. Contact us at MakerNexusBayArea@gmail.com if you'd like to be on one or more teams - or if you see something we're missing. It will take all of us to make this work.

Current Team List

• Site Selection
• Site Build Out
• Outreach (Sales/Marketing)
• Fundraising
• Finance
• Governance (Bylaws, shop rules, position plans)
• It Systems (CRM, scheduling, physical access, maintenance)
• CRM Specification and Vendor Selection
• Education Development (STEAM & Shop Classes)

Collaboration Tools

We have standardized on the following tools at this time. As you work with us, we do not want to splinter into a plethora of other tools. Please use one of these or engage the larger group on Slack to discuss a new tool.

• Knowledge Sharing - This wiki is our method of codifying what we have decided. Eventually our bylaws, policies, training, etc will all be here.
• Slack - We use Slack for group chat. It is best for immediate communication around on-going issues and conversations.
• Google Docs - We use GDocs when we need to collaborate on some evolving document. Once a team has got the document to a relatively stable form, the information will be moved to this wiki and the original doc will be unshared; this is to prevent forking and synchronization issues.
• Google Drive - We use this for storing documents that are not shared widely.
• GMail - We maintain one account (makernexusbayarea@gmail.com) which is managed by Kirsten.

The IT Team is currently exploring CRM and collaboration tools. For example, CiviCRM and BaseCamp.