The Lead Hackweek Coordinator has a background in team leadership and science collaboration. They provide oversight and direction to the eScience Team to ensure all components of the hackweek come together.

Goals

• Ensuring the activities of organizers and participants align with our mission and values.
• Harmonizing community expectations with available resources of the eScience and organizing team.
• Fostering the growth of healthy community interactions and adoption of best practices for open source science.

Specific Activities

• Assist in proposal writing and budget negotiation.
• Assemble an organizing team.
• Facilitate planning meetings to get clear on purpose and scope.
• Meet with organizers to balance workloads and review deadlines.
• Communicate eScience hackweek mission and values to participants and organizers.
• Facilitate the opening day of the hackweek to set the stage for a positive learning environment.
• Evaluate survey and debrief results to design improvements for future events.