OpenWetWare talk:Hiring

--Vincent 14:11, 5 December 2006 (EST): Following the meeting on Hiring someone:

From a User perspective,it would be great if that person could be at least a 50% 'Facilitator' for the OWW community. 'Facilitator' meaning that this person would try to address issues related to:

• Building a stronger sense of community with OWW
• Improving visibility of available resources within the community (knowledge, technical skills, experimental skills ...)
• Helping people willing to contribute to get involved (visibility of on-going projects, be able to point current OWW trends and active discussions)
• animate and coordinate sub-OWW-communities:
  • Administration
  • Implementation of extensions
  • Consensus Protocol editors
  • Scientific writers
  • ...
  • The 'Facilitator' would support these open-groups to define their mission, short and long term goals, organize their conference-call meeting once a month, define their deliverables and chase them 'gently' to fulfill what they agreed on (no need of much technical knowledge, just someone to go through a check list and make sure that all networks are up-to-date.

I agree that this person should also be able to communicate outside of the OWW community. It would be good to have that person producing communication tools/documents to liaise with:

• Funding bodies
• General public and scientific Media
• Other communities of people having skills or experience in fields where OWW needs to strengthen (programmer is an obvious example)

At the end of the day, I see that person as someone with a lot of people skills (often over the internet, to ease the task ...), with a good sense of organization and coordination.