Archive:FCX/Unconference/SFC administration

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Full-time employee
Sustainability
 * Difficulty in scaling the organization

Purpose of this job

 * Supporting the chapters
 * Campaign structure: Open University Campaign

Job descrip brainstorm

 * f2f campus contact
 * chapter cultivation
 * corporation administration
 * reusable materials
 * events that chapters can re-do easily
 * PR, media connections
 * fundraising
 * incidental costs
 * representing SFC at conference
 * helping to generalize activities among campuses

Skills

 * extensive fc knowledge
 * design, web skills
 * organizing
 * charismatic
 * tech
 * grant writing

Salary?
Set a salary goal
 * 35k$?

Can we set a 3-year goal?
 * Connecting with bigger orgs

Corporations

 * Google
 * Mozilla
 * Redhat

University

 * Berkman
 * Boalt
 * Yale ISP
 * Big Ideas Berkeley
 * CITP
 * Annenberg
 * GU CCT
 * NYU

Associations

 * CEA
 * IFTA
 * Open Content Alliance
 * IFPA
 * One Web Day
 * ISOC
 * Computer & Communications Industry Association (CCIA)

Foundations

 * Omidyar
 * Open Society Institute
 * Paople 4 the American Way
 * CAP
 * Cato
 * Kusuma
 * Knight
 * Mellon
 * NAF - http://newamerica.net/pressroom/2009/new_america_foundation_announces_its_first_knight_media_policy_fellow
 * Warhol
 * MacArthur
 * Hewlett
 * Shuttleworth
 * Benton
 * GFEM
 * Sloan
 * Ford
 * ITIF
 * Mozilla
 * Canonical
 * Glaser - http://www.glaserfoundation.org/program_areas/independent_media_init.asp

Benefactors

 * Gorton
 * Ito
 * Templeton
 * Brin, Schmidt
 * Thiel

Gov't

 * Research grants
 * OCW

Models

 * PIRGS - http://www.uspirg.org/media-internet/internet-freedom
 * Campus programs
 * EFF
 * Ashoka

How do we manage HR?
Contractor
 * Higher salary
 * Person has to buy their own benefits
 * Pay their own taxes

Finding friendly org, univ
 * Person works through a department or office
 * Use their infrastructure for benefits, etc.

Employee of SFC
 * Not the best because we lack infrastructure
 * Difficult to manage this

What is the pitch?

 * Student activism
 * Tech, law, culture
 * Internet freedom
 * We should have a one-sheet demonstrating this in the past

Two year goals

 * 75 active chapters

How would we pick this person?

 * Election?
 * Group task?
 * Find employee of another org?

Alternatives

 * Interns with part-time SFC tasks

How do other orgs work?

 * Talking to other student-based activism