OLE Roles and Responsibilities

Owned by Nora Roggeveen-Sams (Unlicensed)
Last updated: Mar 22, 2016

 

 

Board Chair(s)

Responsibilities:

  • drive the Board meeting agendas

  • solicit and shepherd new project partners

  • monitor Board member engagement

  • monitoring partner engagement

  • cultivate the relationship with Mellon

  • act as main point of contact with Mellon

  • assign Mellon related duties as necessary

Selection Process:

Elections for Board Vice Chair will be held in November/April. Each Board Voting Member will have a vote. Any Board member and alternate can make a nomination. The nominee must be a voting member.

Term Length:

The OLE Board Vice Chair will serve a term of 18 months January 1st-June 30th/June 30th-January 1st. The Vice Chair will then go on the serve an 18 month term as Board Chair.

Board Members

Responsibilities:

  • promote OLE among peers at meetings

  • identify potential new members

  • review and advise on proposal/s

  • vet decisions, etc.

  • approve Scope, Resources, Timeline

  • approve vision and near-term and long-term direction

Managing Director

Responsibilities:

  • provides guidance to the OLE board
  • create and manage budget

Steering Committee

Responsibilities:

  •  act as advisers to the managing director
  • guides strategic direction for the community

 

 

Director of Community Development 

Responsibilities:

  • outreach to potential new partners
  • outreach to community through conferences
  • communications to educate about OLE
  • existing Mellon grant administration

Communications Team

Responsibilities:

  • manage the public face of Kuali OLE
  • respond to requests for information
  • updates to Kuali OLE site
  • collecting and organizing OLE public documents
  • provide templates for presentations, collect presentations

Project Manager

Responsibilities:

  • timeline for releases
  • delivery of code
  • manages scope process
  • reporting to Board and Mellon
  • management of technical teams
  • ensure sustainability of software technical direction
  • OLE Board ex-officio member and Project Team  representative

 Project Team

Responsibilities:

  • provide support in defining and documenting functional specifications
  • provide support in functional user testing
  • provide and maintain  project documentation
  • provide and maintain software user documentation
  • provide and maintain software technical documentation
  • provide quality assurance management through testing efforts

Development Team

Responsibilities:

  • provide software technical design documentation
  • provide maintainable software source code

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