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2. Open Ulmus Core Team

Gus Austin edited this page Mar 3, 2018 · 9 revisions

Program Team

The following activities are necessary to keep both the program and associated Open Ulmus branding website(s) operational and sustainable. The program team is in charge of leading the direction of Open Ulmus, recruiting sponsors, and assisting specialty project teams on a high level.

Program Managers

  • Responsibilities
    • Manages existing programs, directs development work, builds relationships, coordinates effort
    • Outreach to potential projects, community initiatives, and contributors
    • Blog posts, newsletters, and other promotional activities
    • Manages social media account of Open Ulmus.
    • Internal documentation and process docs
    • Plan and schedule project deliverables, goals and milestones.
    • Identify and eliminate blockers for other roles within the group.
  • Who - Charles Leverington (@cleverington), Gus Austin (@gusaus)
  • Budgeted time estimate – 20 - 40 hrs /month
  • Those with knowledge of this plan who can provide insight if needed( Mark Milutinovic (@mmilutinovic1313))

Platform Team

The Platform Team is responsible for developing and maintaining Open Ulmus platform. This team builds out the core functionality of courses built within Open Ulmus and assists the Specialty Project Teams in getting their systems up and running. This team’s primary goal is to provide technical advice for both the Program Team and the Specialty Project Teams.

System Administrator

  • Responsibilities
    • Setting up and managing ELMS on AWS.
    • Updates and Maintains AWS instances.
    • Monitors for Security Updates.
  • Who - David Fusco
  • Budgeted time estimate -- 5 hours / month

Technical Lead / Site Architect

  • Responsibilities
    • Establish the high-level development strategy through module selection and configuration.
    • Focus on platformwide concerns such as integration, scalability, performance, and security.
  • Who - Bryan Ollendyke
  • Budgeted time estimate -- 5 hours / month

Themer / Designer

  • Responsibilities
    • Create custom theme and design
  • Who - TBD
  • Budgeted time estimate -

Global Instructional designer

  • Responsibilities
    • Ensures there are meaningful objectives
    • Ensures training plan builds knowledge in a logical way
  • Who - Katrina Wehr (@kat-wehr)
  • Budgeted time estimate -- 5 hours / month

Site Builder / Developer

  • Responsibilities
    • Configures Modules, Content Types, and Views.
    • Defines User Roles and Permissions.
    • In charge of Navigation, Menus, Taxonomy; Actions and Workflows.
  • Who - TBD
  • Budgeted time estimate - 5 hours / month