Chair - Chester Wringe
Hi! I’m Chester and I’ve been your chair this academic year. This mainly consists of making sure stuff is running smoothly, and helping out the various endeavours of committee members. With a competent committee, it’s not a lot of work, but you do sometimes have to sit on people until they Do The Thing.
The primary responsibility of the chair is Chairing meetings. Here, you need to make sure that everyone who needs to has their say, and make sure that the discussion doesn’t go into hyper-bikeshedding territory. With Covid-19, I also oversaw the move to virtual events - as chair, you will probably have to push towards policy decisions like whether events are staying virtual or not, and occasionally deal with YUSU (although this, as with many things, you can delegate).
Secretary - Ash Holland and Adam Birtles
o/ hi! I'm ash, and I've been half of HackSoc's secretary for the past year, adam being the other half. we have the fun job of minuting meetings, replying to emails, dealing with yusu's bureaucracy, and doing all the other Admin Stuff required to make sure HackSoc keeps doing things.
the job doesn't usually need a massive time investment, but it is useful if you can keep track of dates and things that need doing. having two people in the role means twice as many chances to remember to get something done on time (though also sometimes twice as many chances to forget about it...)
Treasurer - Skye Fuller
Hello, I’m Skye, and I held the position of Treasurer for the past year. My job has been really light, because of COVID preventing events! But, my job is mostly around paperwork and liaising with YUSU to organise payments for Society events and items, alongside filling in the form for Grant application. There’s a good amount of stuff to read and keep in mind (Charity by-laws, Yusu by-laws, etc), but it’s mostly good practice and common sense, and Yusu offers good training and documents to help you out. The job requires mostly keeping on top of any emails, but the time investment isn’t huge, and is often quite sporadic.
Social Secretary - Daniel O'Brien
Hi! I'm Daniel and I've been the social secretary for the past year. Given the nature of this role, what you end up doing will be highly dependent on the situation at the time, given that'll influence what sort of events we are able to run.
The role for the most part does not have that much of a time commitment - most events tend to run themselves, with the exception of filmnight for which you'll need to sort out obtaining the film voted in along with showing it (whether that be physical or via live.hacksoc.org)
Press and Publicity - Aaron Christiansen
Hello, I'm Aaron, and I've been Press and Publicity Officer this year! I'm responsible for keeping HackSoc members up-to-date by writing emails just like these, sending out the weekly newsletter, and posting on our social media accounts. From time to time I'm also involved in meetings with sponsors or other societies to advertise their events.
This role is great because you don't need any prior experience or expertise, and you can add your own personal touch to your emails and social media posts!
Academic Events Officer - Tara Harley
Hi! I'm Tara and for the past year I've been the Academic Events Officer. This role doesn't require that much time investment right now, but may require more when we actually host talks in person. As it is it's just sporadically organising people and events. Most of the events are around this time of year!
This position entails organising talks (and hosting them if we can in person) and keeping up to date with academic events hosted by other people that HackSoc members may wish to partake in, like Google HashCode, the BCS Lovelace Colloquium etc. and organising groups for group events.
Infrastructure Officer - Luke Moll and Ezekiel Bethel
Hi, I'm Luke, one of your Infrastructure officers. I help look after the society's technical aspects, including managing our (many) servers, maintaining the backend of our website so other committee members can edit it, and other miscellaneous services like the IRC bridge. You don't have to be an experienced sysadmin to run for this role, and it's an excellent way of gaining experience by itself. There are loads of knowledgeable people in the society, so don't be afraid to ask for help!
