People

People (or Teams, or Roles)

There are lots of people in the DoES Liverpool community! Everyone gets involved in their own way. Some people just need to come in and use a desk for a few hours, others stay for years and end up scrubbing and varnishing the floor. Some teams have formed along the way; some permanent and some temporary, this page give a bit more detail on these.

Organisers

This is the one you may hear about the most. A mythical group who answer emails and arranges for the cleaner to come in... no-one knows where they came from or why... hm.. maybe not. Originally this group was all of the founders of DoES Liverpool and was the people who would open the doors in the morning, close up in the afternoon and answer any emails that came through to [email protected]. The list of jobs has expanded a bit since then and the list of people doing the jobs has changed but essentially this is the core team of people who keep the lights on at DoES Liverpool. More information on what is done by this group can be found on the Organisers page. Everyone in this team is a volunteer, except...

Admin Employees

DoES Liverpool employs a single person, in fact just 0.3 of a person. Sean comes in 1.5 days a week and makes sure emails are responded to and that accounting is kept on top of. Alongside this Sean also helps with all the Organiser chores.

Directors

As a limited company DoES Liverpool is required to have one or more directors. For many years we didn't really think too much about the directors and everything went through the organisers team. This changed when we went through a period where the money was quite tight and we realised that as directors we would have a legal responsibility to be aware of the decisions being made and be sure that they were the best decisions for the community and for the company. Since then the directors have been meeting regularly to make sure we have a good idea of how things are going within the DoES Liverpool community. You can find minutes from those meetings here.

Currently we have 5 directors:

• Adrian McEwen: [email protected]
• Jackie Pease: [email protected]
• John McKerrell: [email protected]
• Laura Pullig: [email protected]
• Caroline Alcock: [email protected]

See here for a summary of the roles performed by the directors

Grievance Team

The grievance team aim to deal with any difficulties within the DoES Liverpool community that can't be resolved informally. Please see Grievance-Procedure for further details. This is the current list of members:

• Chris Thompson: [email protected]
• JR Peterson: [email protected]
• Snoof Hattersley: [email protected]
• Zarino Zappia: [email protected]
• Adrian McEwen: [email protected]
• Jackie Pease: [email protected]
• John McKerrell: [email protected]
• Laura Pullig: [email protected]
• Caroline Alcock: [email protected]

In case of a grievance that has not been resolved through informal discussions, you can put the complaint in writing to one of the grievance team by emailing any of the above or [email protected] (in which case the email will be received by all grievance team members). Please note that your email will be received by some grievance team members on their personal email address (those with -grievanceteam in the address). For clarity we want to point out that DoES Liverpool has no control over those email accounts.

Safeguarding Team

The safeguarding team can advise on any safeguarding matters arising within the DoES Liverpool community. Please see DoES-Liverpool-Safeguarding-Policy for further details. This is the current list of members:

• Caroline Alcock: [email protected]
• Laura Pullig: [email protected]

Laser Cutter Maintenance Team

This team aims to keep the laser cutters in tip-top condition, to document how they're doing it and to educate more people in the community. You can see more details on GitHib, here: https://github.com/orgs/DoESLiverpool/teams/laser-maintenance/members

Networking Team

DoES Liverpool has a great networking setup now and a team of people keeping an eye on things. If you have any specific requests these should go in as an issue. You can see who's in the networking team here

Event Organising Teams

Whether it's an event within DoES Liverpool, or a trip away to Makefest in the library, or even to somewhere further afield, we usually try to arrange a small team of people to co-ordinate things.