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Our diverse Executive Board comes from a wide background of both technical and managerial experience and has successfully been running large scale IRC networks and Internet communities for many years and bring a collective experience that will provide the oversight that will allow DareNET to maintain its mission of providing quality community related IRC services without compromising its core beliefs. Our Executive Board's goal is to create a streamlined staff organization, not unneeded bureaucracy, by creating positions that oversee specific areas of responsibility with specific duties attached to them. Two distinct areas have been created each with its own director: Operations and Support. Those directors appoint and manage individuals to fulfill the needs of our users and serve to maintain the network. The current makeup is as follows:
The TeamsTiered below our Executive Board, as shown above, are a few teams which are responsible for the day to day operations of DareNET: Development What network would be complete without its own in house development gurus? The Development team, lead by the Development Manager, is broken down into two sub-teams: IRCd and Services Development These bit magicians are responsible not only for our professional quality IRC services system, services-darenet, but also maintain patch sets and fixes for our IRC daemon, ircd-darenet (based off of ircu). Web Development What happens when you put web designers and web programmers into the same room? You get a highly functional, well designed web experience. Our web development team is responsible for the design and development of our end user website, as well as our integrated staff intranet, which will soon provide the solid operational basis for our network to run. Managing a network requires copious amounts of information management and these web divas and gurus turn bleeding edge into rock solid stability allowing for multiple teams and staff members to co-manage and provide the best possible network experience to our end users. Server Management Building a geographically diverse, yet well structured network is both an art form and science. Lead by the Server Managers, and made up of server administrators and operators, these fine folks have both aspects down. Their responsibilites include reviewing prospective servers, integrating them into the existing network, maintaining DareNET's IRC pool using its integrated IRC<>DNS management service and collectively reviewing the network on an ongoing basis to ensure link stability. Security With an ever increasing number of security vulnerabilities, our security team, which shall be made up of both DareNET staff and outside industry experts, performs periodic audits and advisories to help ensure the network is secure as can be. Support One of two areas of responsibility, Support is lead by the Director of Support, and is also made up of well respected individuals in our community who over a period of time have shown great dedication to the network and propensity for management. These fine folks are responsible for the customer service end of our day to day operations. Managing a few sub-teams and a volunteer staff, these cat wranglers work to keep the end user experience on DareNET a positive one. Abuse With any network large or small, there are rules to enforce, botnets to thwart, and individuals with a complete disregard for rules and those around them who need to be dealt with. The abuse team, a sub-team of support, is responsible for that. These defenders of harmony and foes of would be system exploiters, script kiddies, and packet attackers have protecting DareNET down to a science. Training Another sub-team of support, training is responsible for ensuring staff posses the necessary knowledge and tools to effectively do their job here on DareNET. |
