How to Run HeatSync Labs

This is a list of responsibilities (what is expected of the position), as well as a knowledgebase of how to practically accomplish those responsibilities.

Everyone

• Try to be physically at the lab as often as possible
• Specifically be at the lab for Hack Your Hackerspace night
• Convert strangers into members
• Serve on committees
• Fundraise
• Evangelize HeatSync
• Staff HSL personally or find someone to to make sure we're 'open' 7pm-10pm

Champion

• Physical face of HeatSync, primary contact point
• Present for most events
• Host/life of the party
• Leader
• Checks/Balances (treasurer, etc)
• Vision, on track and clearly conveyed, the "why"
• Set and clarify expectations of positions
• Understand/track all aspects of HeatSync
• Accountability, Follow-up
• Empower/motivate
• Delegator
• Focus
• Mediate
• Communication (to/from board, to new people "no wallflowers!", connect people, to partners, getting and keeping contacts)
• Decider
• Clarity
• Soliciting for membership
• Presentation

Treasurer

Also see Office of Treasurer HowTo

• Manage bank accounts (with accountant's help)
• Collect dues and monetary donations
• Initiating and revoking memberships (with secretary's help)
• Timely updates to the board
• Taxes, IRS communication
• Collecting receipts for sales
• Delivering receipts to donators, with tax exempt notification (as easy as possible)
• Improving sales process to make it easy for customers (with IT/Marketing help)
• Set up accounts with vendors
• Purchasing (processing orders)
• Capital value (asset tracking with resource manager's help)
• Budgets
• Expenses (monthly/yearly)
• Building and debt management
• Accounts payable
• 501c3 status (account switchovers)

Secretary

• Check PO box
• Initiating and revoking memberships (keys, documents, etc, with treasurer's help)
• find and enter speakers using the Speaker Process
  • be point of contact on thursdays for these presenters, set up any resources they need (projector, mic, etc)
  • send thank yous, etc
  • post presentations on wiki and maybe a private list of emails so we can reschedule speakers http://wiki.heatsynclabs.org/w/index.php?title=Presentations
• post agenda to lab and discussion board 1 week prior to board meeting
• take minutes during board
• post draft minutes directly after board meeting finishes to discussion board
• add approved minutes to wiki directly after board meeting finishes
• take minutes staff meetings--email minutes to attendees immediately after staff meetings
• Reminders (reporting, taxes, due dates)
• Operations/Events accountability
• Contacting lawyer/insurance
• Organize organization documents and maintain document compliance for 501c3 status
• PUBLIC Accountability

1023 (and attachments), determination letter(1023 acceptance)XX, all correspondence!(the letter from IRS that told us to fix stuffXX) and last 3 filed 990 and 990ts at any time (not including donors schedule (b?)) if in person, MUST REMIT SAME DAY! per day($20/day capped at 10k per document) penalties!, (can ASK reasonable copying fee, but we can't withhold for payment) or request by writing, we have 30 days to comply

• MEMBER Accountability

Articles, bylaws(WIKI), resolutions dealing with member rights(none atm?), minutes for past 3 years(in binder),actions taken by committees, written communications to members for 3 years(we dont have single channel for this, can we just say google groups?), names and business addresses of current directors and officers(make list), most recent annual report(state corporation commission report), member agreements, accounting records, membership list, most recent financial statements (very broad discretion here...)