Team SWO - Intro

The Southwestern Ohio community's Administrative Council (hereinafter known as Team SWO) is responsible for the heavy lifting involved in keeping STC-SWO alive. Let's look at some of what Team SWO does, focusing this month on two of the community's most visible activities–planning and conducting monthly meetings and managing the STC-SWO Web site.

Monthly Meetings

Every year, somebody has to plan, schedule, find speakers, publish announcements, and handle meeting place arrangement for nine monthly meetings–from September through May. For the past two years (2005-2007) that somebody has been Wonder Woman Kayte Rudolph-Griffo, with capable assistance from Jeff Stevenson and mostly moral support from the rest of the Admin Council. Kayte has earned her varsity letter, and we've retired her Program Lead jersey in gratitude for her years of service. This year's programs are in the capable hands of a Trilateral Committee: Sylvia Miller, Kathy Reynolds, and Thea Teich. They have reviewed the results of the early-summer Members' Survey and translated your wish list into an impressive program schedule. Your ideas and suggestions for program topics and venues are always welcome. You can even volunteer your services to help with calling, scheduling, and publicizing a program that dovetails with your areas of professional interest.

STC-SWO Website

Chris Schapman has served tirelessly as Webmaster for the past two years (2005-2007). What does the Webmaster do? Here's a short list:

  • Maintains the bulletin board and forum. Thanks to inventive, tireless spammers of every ilk, the bulletin board accumulates daily stacks of unwanted mail. The webmaster weeds out the illegitimate stuff.
  • Updates changeable areas of the Website. including changes in Admin Council contact info and in Society and SWO officers.
  • Updates meeting announcements and makes sure that reservations are processed.
  • Posts important announcements.

Chris is bowing out after a very productive stint with Team SWO. We're looking for a replacement successor (who will not replace Chris, but simply continue his good work). President Jean Fudge is performing interim Webmaster duties, but she needs to focus on playing her primary position. So, please volunteer if you

  • Are a member or student member of STC.
  • Have the experience, desire, and time availability to manage an organization's Website and e-mail.
  • Know HTML, CSS, and JavaScript.
  • Are familiar with PHP (or a similar scripting language) and MySQL (or other relational database).
  • Can handle FTP file transfers.

Team SWO is signing up walk-ons; no agent necessary. We want you!

The Rest of the Team

Here's the complete 2007-08 roster:

We'll take a closer look at all the positions in future issues of BTL.

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