Who's Who

Members

As defined in The GCD Charter

Indexers

People who enter data for comics into the database.

Editors

Ensure the data being entered matches the correct formatting. Fix previously entered data.

• List of editors

Senior Editors

Ray Bottorff Jr is the Senior Editor and the leader of the Senior Editors Group. The Group is a body of nine editors picked from the group of editors who discuss data formatting and rules. Senior Editors are identified on the list of Editors in the previous section.

• Senior Editor Votes

Coordinators

Membership Coordinator

Currently Ken Lemons

• Public contact point
• Recruits more contributors
• Answers questions

Reservations Coordinator

Currently Matthias Hofmann

• Accepts reservations
• Distributes reservation lists

Head Technical Coordinator

Currently Lionel English

• Mediates between the technical team and the Board (see: http://groups.google.com/group/gcd-board/browse_thread/thread/3acaa1eb2e7a0a63#)
• Coordinates the efforts of the other technical offices, which currently include:
  • Head Programmer: Henry Andrews (Leads the web site and application design and implementation) (see: http://groups.google.com/group/gcd-board/browse_thread/thread/3acaa1eb2e7a0a63#)
  • Data Coordinator: L. Jámal Walton (Leads the database design and implementation)
  • GCD Postmaster: Ralf Haring (Postmaster reports to the Head Technical Coordinator and is responsible for the creation, maintenance, and deletion of mail accounts, in accordance with standard mail administrator responsibilities and in accordance with policies created by the Board. Postmaster is also responsible for advising the Board on issues of relevance to the performance of their job.) (see: http://groups.google.com/group/gcd-board/browse_thread/thread/d0da553e02035794#)

The Board

The "Board" refers to the GCD's Board of Directors.

The "Board" is a group with a maximum of nine members who help run the GCD. There are elections every year in which either four or five of the Board members are elected to two-year terms by the GCD membership. See The GCD Charter for exact information about the makeup of the board.

The Board exists to help set and revise GCD policy, to make sure that all of the administrative roles are adequately staffed, and to identify problem areas and set up action committees to resolve them. Another way of looking at this is, they don't handle the day-to-day operations of the GCD, but they make sure that there are resources in place to handle them, and make sure that the project addresses areas of change when needed.

You can e-mail the GCD Contact Email to get in touch with board members or if you are on any of the GCD discussion lists (Email Lists FAQ), you can ask questions there and a Board member will usually respond.

	role	term
Will Allred		2007-2009
Henry Andrews		2008-2010
Ray Bottorff Jr		2008-2010
Lionel English		2008-2010
Matt Gore		2007-2009
Ralf Haring		2008-2010
Lou Mazzella	Secretary	2008-2010
Mike Nielsen	Board Chairman	2007-2009
Tony Rose	Treasurer	2007-2009

Board history by term (terms start and end in November). 2000 was the first board election and half the board only had a one year term.

2000-2001	2000-2002	2001-2003	2002-2004	2003-2005
Will Allred	Ray Bottorff Jr	Will Allred	Ray Bottorff Jr	Will Allred
Lionel English	Mike Catron (?)	Lionel English	Mike Catron	Matt Head
Lou Mazzella	Mike Rhode (?)	Ken Lemons	Matt Gore	Tony Rose
Tony Rose	Tim Stroup	Tony Rose	Matthias Hofmann	Per Sandell
	Maurizio Villotta		Lou Mazzella
2004-2006	2005-2007	2006-2008	2007-2009	2008-2010
Ray Bottorff Jr	Will Allred	Ray Bottorff Jr	Will Allred	Henry Andrews
Mike Catron	Mike Nielsen	Mike Catron	Matt Gore	Ray Bottorff Jr
Matt Gore	Tony Rose	Matthias Hofmann	Mike Nielsen	Lionel English
Matthias Hofmann	Per Sandell	Jim Ludwig	Tony Rose	Ralf Haring
Lou Mazzella		Lou Mazzella		Lou Mazzella