Projects

The Projects Team Lead position is responsible for keeping tabs on the community's project portfolio. some of these responsibilities may be delegated to our lovely volunteers to handle things like Tech Mentors to help out at hack nights, or Subject Matter Experts to be on call for specific issues, and Project Leads to drive particular projects forward. Before becoming the Project Team lead, it's best to start in one of these roles to get a feeling for the commitment. In onboarding new members to either position, invite them first to sign up on the volunteer signup sheet for an event as the Tech Mentor.

Tasks

Daily

• Respond to urgent requests & questions from project teams
• Always be alert to opportunities outside of Open Austin that might benefit a team

Weekly

• Respond to all comments from project teams
• Check in with a few less active teams, see what help they need
• Check in with iced-coffee project leads, see what help they need
• Update the calendar with project-related events
• Check that labels are applied appropriately to project ideas (e.g. remove "status: new" label from older issues)

Monthly

• Post to idea issue and Slack channel for projects that haven't had any activity lately, suggest a BASEDEF update
• Make sure shared resources (e.g. AWS) are still running fine
• Look out for particularly interesting updates from teams to share at CTNs
• Update Iced-Coffee projects' milestones at the end of the month and help other leadership team members achieve their organizational project goals