@Philip
Am with you on all your proposals except this:
Skunkworks has been open to *all* and IMO membership fees will bring complications bure. Let people feel they are Skunks coz they want to not coz they have paid to be.

On Fri, Dec 11, 2009 at 3:09 PM, Philip Musyoki <pmusyoki@gmail.com> wrote:
My suggestion for the structure for now is as follows:

The group will comprise members who will contribute some amount of money; may be yearly as membership fees. With these we can confortable run the activities of the organization in terms of server space, bandwidth, and so on.


 Secondly, trust me the issue of remittances will bring unwanted headaches.

Now to my points:

Someone suggested that Techies feel uncomfortable working in set structures. Thats a valid point but now that Skunks is almost 5 years old (I stand to be corrected) its time we gave ourselves a formal stature in the society.

The positions I propose are the following:

Position: Facilitator
Roles: Facilitate Skunkworks meetings and venues

Position: Spokesperson
Roles: Act as skunkworks 'mouthpiece' to media, and society in General

Position: Skunkworks Publicist (Can be more than one)
Roles: Look for and identify issues on which the Skunkworks group can contribute, at least in ideas, in the outside world. By outside I mean outside the mailing list.
If need be the publicist can create issues.
Case in point: How many times have we seen Mutahi Ngunyi on TV commenting on Legal matters? We should be seeing Skunkworks guys giving their professional opinions as well. And I would feel very proud to hear on, say KTN, "And here we have Philip Musyoki, an IT Manager with Bla Bla and a member of the renowned Skunkworks ..."

Position: Techno Leads
Roles: Act as leads for as respective line of IT - e.g. MySQL Lead, for all MySQL enthusiasts, .Net Lead, Java, etc. This will help in grooming and knowledge transfer

Position: Inventory Manager
Roles: Keeps stock of Skunks resources

Position: Innovators
Role: Think and act!!
Proposed Office Holder: EVERYONE!!

Position: Sponsors (Am thinking Corporates)
Roles: To organise for and sponsor Skunk events. In return their products will be showcased.

And many more. Guys, we dont have to go the traditional way of chairmen and secretaries as such. Lets have what can work for us