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

Data Coordinator

Currently Ken Lemons and L. Jámal Walton

• Collects data
• Keeps and maintains central datafiles and controls revisions
• Puts together different pieces from different sources
• Monitors inputs and outputs
• Decides on format for results
• Random checks on accuracy
• Final say on data or format standards

Reservations Coordinator

Currently Matthias Hofmann

• Accepts reservations
• Distributes reservation lists

Technical Coordinator

Currently Lionel English

• Mediates between the technical team and the Board
• Coordinates the efforts of the other technical offices, which currently indlude:
  • Head Programmer: Henry Andrews (Leads the web site / application design and implementation)
  • Database Coordinator: L. Jámal Walton (Leads the database design and implementation)

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.

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