Committees
Current Committees
Committee to Rework Genre List
Established: November 10, 2010 by Board Motion
Chair: Tony Rose, Jim Van Dore
Objective: Update the GCD genre list.
Message Board: GCD Genre Committee
Committee to Study Who's Who Integration
Established: June 18, 2011 by Board Motion
Chair: Donald Dale Milne
Objective: Produce a report on integrating the Bails' Who's Who into the structure of the GCD.
Message Board: gcd-whos who
Past Committees
Comic Strip Committee
Established: September 3, 2010 by Board Motion
Chair: Lionel English
Objective: Explore the possibility of a comic-strip database. The Comic Strip Committee is only responsible for identifying a logical set of data points to be collected and implementation. The structural details such as data normalization and table structures will delegated to the tech team at a later date.
Message Board: GCD Comic Strips
Report Delivered: December 12, 2010
Strategic Committees
Established: March 4, 2010
Objective:Present proposals that outline where the GCD should be on April 1, 2014 (the project's 20th anniversary) in clear, measurable goals that will help the Board achieve, retain and support the objectives. Milestones should be developed in such a way that members can reach the goals in incremental steps (short term goals to achieve the long term goals). Periodic updates will be provided.
Goals will support the mission statement, but committees are asked to consider ways in which the focus area might contribute to the overall objective of the GCD Project within the given time frame. Brainstorming sessions can be used to identify realistical and achievable goals with some leeway for labor and finances since those areas might grow. Costs of each idea (financial and other resources) and prioritize the idea must be included in the final result.
Financial Goals
Chairman: Tony Rose
Objective: The Financial Goal Committee focused on the following:
- identify income and expense areas
- identify growth areas (such as increasing Google Ad revenues, paypal donations and other revenue streams?)
- decide on a reserve fund
Message Board: GCD Financial Goals
Results: None
Hardware Committee
Chairman: Ralf Haring
Objective: The Hardware Committee focused on the following:
- define growth plans, if any, do we have for support services, like the wiki, the bugzillas and review board.
- identifiy additional features, better integration, and new support applications.
- determine the need for any new hardware requirements for areas that might maintain or even imporve stability and performance.
Message Board: gcd-hardware-committee
Results: None
Software Committee
Chairman: Henry Andrews
'Objective:' The Software Committee focused on the following:
- determine if project will be able to reach the New Fun schema within the allotted time frame
- determine if the New Fun schema needs revisions.
- determine if progress can be made to the More Fun schema
- examine the possibility of expanding into other projects (*not* strips or reference work)
- examine the possibility of web service support
- recruit more developers
Message Board: gcd-software-committee
Results: Software Planning Committee 2010