Leadership terms
Rotation for TAC leadership goes as follows: a member serves a one year term as Vice Chair which is followed by one year as Chair, totaling two years in leadership.
Vice Chair responsibilities
- Workload: The workload of the Vice Chair position doesn’t add too much – it’s mostly comprised of familiarizing yourself with the Chair duties to ensure a smooth transition in leadership at the end of the term. It might involve a couple of hours a month, depending on the month.
- Responsibilities:
- Leading a few TAC meetings, probably 2-3 (less than half of the meetings in a year).
- Collaborating with TAC Chair to plan TAC meetings, making TAC-related decisions, helping support sub-teams. This typically happens over email and a couple of phone meetings.
- Attending TAC/UAC Coordinating Committee meetings. The Coordinating Committee serves to facilitate the sharing of information between the Technical and User Advisory Councils, planning of joint council activities, and sharing feedback from council members for the Governance Board.
- Maintaining Awesome ArchivesSpace repo by responding to pull requests and issues, and adding new resources at your discretion.
Chair responsibilities
- Workload: The workload of the Chair position can vary throughout the year, depending on the needs of TAC, its sub-teams and members. The first 3 months of a new term will typically require an increased time commitment to orient new TAC members and assign sub-teams in collaboration with UAC leadership.
- Responsibilities:The TAC Chair has primary responsibility for coordinating the work of the TAC and communicating with stakeholders. This includes
- Leading and facilitating TAC meetings.
- Welcoming and orienting new appointees to the TAC. (See Onboarding new TAC members)
- Maintaining documentation and rosters of the TAC on the wiki.
- Assigning TAC members to sub-teams.
- Creating ad hoc working groups and initiating or sunsetting subteams in order to accomplish the work of the TAC.
- Working with the TAC Board liaison to represent the TAC to the ArchivesSpace Governance Board.
- Collaborating with the ArchivesSpace Program Manager and ArchivesSpace Governance Board to accomplish program initiatives by way of TAC/UAC Coordinating Committee meetings.
- Preparing quarterly and annual reports summarizing the activities of the Council and subteams to the Governance Board.
- Serving on the Nominating Committee.