Category:Infrastructure

Charter

Charter approved by BoD 2019-09-08

Purpose

The Infrastructure Group performs operations and maintenance of Dallas Makerspace mechanical/electrical/plumbing (MEP), communications, online presence, and physical security.

Infrastructure Officer General Charter

The Infrastructure Officer shall be bound by the General Officer Charter.

Governance

The Infrastructure Group is headed by the Technology Officer, who may appoint or dismiss members without cause. The Technology Officer shall record and publically post the names of all members of the Infrastructure Group, noting changes in a timely fashion. The Infrastructure Group shall meet on an as-needed basis and report to the Board when requested by the Board.

Operations

The Technology Officer may delegate functions of the Office of the Technology Officer to member(s) of the Infrastructure Group as they deem necessary.

Responsibilities of the Office of the Technology Officer

1. Facility MEP (Mechanical, Electrical, Plumbing)
   1. Plumbing
   2. HVAC
   3. Electrical
   4. Compressed air
2. Onsite Electronic Communications / information assets
   1. LAN
   2. Wi-fi
   3. Internet
   4. Onsite servers
   5. Phones
   6. DMS-owned computers
3. Online presence
   1. Website (infrastructure)
   2. Cloud infrastructure
   3. Internet access
4. Physical security
   1. Access control
   2. Cameras
5. Contracts related to Infrastructure

Finances

The Infrastructure Group shall have a monthly allocation specified by the Board of Directors. This shall be charged against the general fund; Infrastructure Group will retain no balance.

Policies

The Jump server hosts several virtual machines; including a Windows Server that hosts our VCarve, FeatureCAM, and AutoDesk Inventor software.

• This link provides information about storing and accessing computer files at DMS.
• Jump Server login (and creating AD account)
• Jump Server FAQ.

Telephone System

The phone system is a Voice over IP PBX, which consists of a virtual machine running Asterisk 11 with IncredibleGUI 12 on Ubuntu 14.04LTS. We use Google Voice for trunks, providing free calls to anywhere in the US or Canada. Our main number is 214-699-6537.

VoIP Server Information Page

BoD Annual Election Procedures

Our Bylaws require an annual election of our BoD, the page in the link below details the procedures that were used in the most recent election. These procedures should be updated whenever a change is made.

BoD Annual Election Procedures

Infrastructure

Infrastructure

Governance Model

Group

Contact

Post to the Infrastructure category on the forums, chat with us on Discord, or send an email to [email protected] (or [email protected]) and it will be forwarded to all members of the committee.

Members

• Freddy Calvert - Chief Technology Officer (@yashsedai)
• Stan Simmons
• Dwight Spencer (DevOps, IT, PM)
• Lisa Selk
• Andrew LeCody
• Alex Rhodes
• Bill Gee (@Bill)
• Robert Davidson
• Frank Lima
• Erik Smith
• Joe Helmstetter
• Mark Havens (Grand Master Computer Janitor)
• Jason Ottwell
• Mike Kelp (Code Wizard)
• john a. gorman (Senior IT Specialist)
• Stephenie Webb
• James Blocker
• Justin Edwards
• James Braye
• Woody (@woody)
• Jim Hartnett (@hon1nbo ; cybersecurity stickler)
• Kyle Crothers

Moderators

The Infrastructure Committee sponsors a team (Moderator Team) to moderate the Talk Forum with a published set of moderator guidelines. The Moderator Team desires and promotes an open, transparent environment on Talk that promotes inclusion, diversity of opinions, knowledge sharing, fairness and respect while respecting privacy of all individuals.

Meeting Minutes

The committee routinely meets on the second Wednesday of every month. Meetings will be posted on the calendar.

• Infrastructure Committee Meeting (template)

2018

• Infrastructure Committee Meeting 20180420

How To Join

1. Send an email to [email protected] and request to join the Infrastructure committee.
2. Add your name to the list of members on this page.

All pages related to the Infrastructure Committee.