Area and Committee Descriptions
Areas are the physical spaces within the MakeICT building, whereas committees are groups dedicated to sustaining and growing the MakeICT community. Standing committees perform the vital functions that keep MakeICT up and running, while ad hoc committees are formed by the board for a specific purpose.
The area and committee leads have, more or less, the same responsibilities:
- Attend leads and chairs meetings
- Attend Maker Mondays (currently 2nd and 4th Mondays)
- Attend new member orientations (weeks following on Tuesdays/Saturdays)
- Maintain inventory
- Hold regular meetings
- Make a budget yearly
- Recruit members for the area/committee and sub leads
- Maintain equipment
- Hold “basics”/safety classes regularly (for areas)
They also all share one "perk" in common: the opportunity to make decisions that benefit MakeICT community.
With their budgets, committees and area leadership may replace consumables and make repairs to property, but they also use these funds to hold events, purchase new equipment, and arrange the physical space of an area to make it more orderly, usable, and attractive. Summaries of each area and committee are available at their pages, but here's a quick rundown of what each one is/does:
Committees
- The Security Committee makes it possible for MakeICT to be a safe place to be in, 24/7. Security members advocate for changes they think will make the space more secure. They perform background checks when new members apply, create badges for new members, and re-issue badges when they're lost or damaged.
- The IT Committee makes things happen on the back end. Members are responsible for moderating the forum, keeping the internet up and running, managing the software that MakeICT uses such as Wild Apricot, monitoring the permissions for network drives to preserve security of information, and collaborate with the Security committee to implement technological solutions to making MakeICT safer.
- The Membership Committee are the first representatives of MakeICT that prospective members typically meet. Membership committee members run Maker Mondays and new member orientations, maintain membership records along with IT and Security, and listen to the needs of membership so that solutions can be found.
- The Communications Committee speak on behalf of MakeICT. Communication committee members write and send the MakeICT newsletter, manage social media accounts, and make improvements to MakeICT's website and wiki.
- Finance Committee
- Facilities Committee
- Classroom Committee
- Fundraising Committee
- Inventory and Procurement
