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The project team is a group of members dedicated to overseeing AVEN's many efforts to bring education and visibility to the outside world.
 
The project team is a group of members dedicated to overseeing AVEN's many efforts to bring education and visibility to the outside world.
  
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==History and Controversy==
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==Purpose of the Project Team==
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The Project Team (PT) consists of five members dedicated to promoting asexual visibility and education who are elected annually by members of AVEN. The PT has four primary functions.
  
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The first Project Team was made up of eleven members elected in the week of June 15 to June 22, 2006.<ref>http://www.asexuality.org/en/index.php?showtopic=16742</ref> The team was given their own forum, which anyone could see, but only they could post in. Within this forum, they worked on projects such as this Wiki, [[AVENues]], a pen-pal exchange, the [[AVEN store]], and a set of pamphlets.
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1) To work with and to provide help to people working on vis/ed projects.
  
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After a promising start, the Project Team fell prey to inactivity and the resignation of many team members. It was hard to find new members to replace the ones who had left. As a stopgap measure, [[AVENguy]] appointed several people to the Project Team without electing them.<ref>http://www.asexuality.org/en/index.php?showtopic=20602</ref> There was talk about holding new elections, but even with the new members, there were fewer than eleven people on the Project Team, so elections never happened.
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2) To create resources that will be of value to the asexual community, to people wanting to know more about asexuality, and to people working on asexuality-related projects. This includes, but is not limited to, AVENues, Asexual Perspectives, Post of the Week, and working on AVEN’s wiki.
  
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Due to the lack of elections, the AVEN public (and even some Project Team members) were not aware of who exactly was on the Project Team and who wasn't. There was an increasing perception of the remaining Project Team as insular and bureaucratic<ref>http://www.asexuality.org/en/index.php?showtopic=23836</ref> and concern over a lack of democracy and accountability<ref>http://www.asexuality.org/en/index.php?showtopic=23621</ref>.
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3) To moderate the Visibility and Education Projects forum.
  
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After discussion<ref>http://www.asexuality.org/en/index.php?showtopic=23836</ref>, the remaining members of the Project Team decided to scrap the original Project Team. Instead of being private to the Project Team, the Project Team forum would now be open to all members of AVEN<ref>http://www.asexuality.org/en/index.php?showtopic=24544</ref>, with five Project Team moderators overseeing and keeping track of the projects. The new PT-mods were elected in July 2007<ref>http://www.asexuality.org/en/index.php?showtopic=25151</ref>. Due to a tie, six rather than five were elected; this has occurred now twice in the PT history, the most recent<!-- when is most recent? --> elections also having had six elected due to a tie.
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4) To be leaders in asexual visibility and education work.
  
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==Current Project Team Moderators==
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The PT is not the only group on AVEN working on visibility and education projects. Bringing Asexy Back is a group devoted to outreach to the asexual community. AVEN’s media teams lead work in coordinating with the media in their respective areas. Formerly, there the AVEN DSM Taskforce lobbied the DSM-5 Sexual Dysfunctions Subworkgrouop to try to make Hypoactive Sexual Desire Disorder more asexual friendly in DSM-5.
  
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==Current Members and Responsibilities==
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Ellie J. - Online media
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mandrewliter - Online resources and research
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Matt Engarde - Wikimaster
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michaeld - Offline UK activities
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Southpaw - Offline US activities
  
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*[[user:EGD|EGD]]
 
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*[[user:SpirallingSnowy|SpirallingSnowy]]
 
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*[[user:Akiraluckystar|Akiraluckystar]] - sometimes under the name of Deus_Ex_Machina
 
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*[[user:GoAllyGoGo|GoAllyGoGo]]
 
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*[[user:Ily|Ily]]
 
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*[[user:. . .but there are sounds|. . .but there are sounds]]
 
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GoAllyGoGo and SpirallingSnowy are the only Project Team moderators who were also in the previous Project Team.
 
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==Former Project Team Members==
 
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=== AVENguy ===
 
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As the site's founder, [[user:AVENguy|David Jay]] retains several administrative responsibilities not yet formally adopted by the other two teams. Most of these responsibilites are under the juristiction of the Project Team and can be reassigned or restructured with a Project Team vote.
 
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David's responsibilities include:
 
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*Answering the info@asexuality.org and webmaster@asexuality.org e-mail accounts.
 
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*Responding to press requests and coordinating AVEN members' media appearances.
 
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*Responding to technical questions, maintaining the technical aspect of the site and installing software upgrades.
 
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*Answering e-mail questions about asexuality or distributing them to the [[AVEN Advisory Team]].
 
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===Resigned===
 
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*[[user:AmoebicMe|AmoebicMe]]
 
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*[[user:Brodertun|Brodertun]] (under the name Triple A)
 
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*[[user:Dargon|Dargon]]
 
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*[[user:Hexpiral|Hexpiral]]
 
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*[[user:Nugan|Nugan]]
 
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*[[user:Lehcar|Lehcar]]
 
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*[[user:Hound|Hound]]
 
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*[[user:Antibubble|Antibubble]]
 
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*[[user:Hallucigenia|Hallucigenia]]
 
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===Became Inactive===
 
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*[[user:Cacille|Cacille]]
 
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*[[user:elizapotter03|elizapotter03]]
 
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*[[user:Hu|Hu]]
 
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*[[user:Islander9|Islander9]]
 
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*[[user:Jesh|Jesh]]
 
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*[[user:Kallan|Kallan]]
 
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*[[user:Neurovore|Neurovore]]
 
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==References==
 
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<references />
 
  
 
[[Category:Community]]
 
[[Category:Community]]

Revision as of 02:25, 3 October 2010

The project team is a group of members dedicated to overseeing AVEN's many efforts to bring education and visibility to the outside world.

Purpose of the Project Team

The Project Team (PT) consists of five members dedicated to promoting asexual visibility and education who are elected annually by members of AVEN. The PT has four primary functions.

1) To work with and to provide help to people working on vis/ed projects.

2) To create resources that will be of value to the asexual community, to people wanting to know more about asexuality, and to people working on asexuality-related projects. This includes, but is not limited to, AVENues, Asexual Perspectives, Post of the Week, and working on AVEN’s wiki.

3) To moderate the Visibility and Education Projects forum.

4) To be leaders in asexual visibility and education work.

The PT is not the only group on AVEN working on visibility and education projects. Bringing Asexy Back is a group devoted to outreach to the asexual community. AVEN’s media teams lead work in coordinating with the media in their respective areas. Formerly, there the AVEN DSM Taskforce lobbied the DSM-5 Sexual Dysfunctions Subworkgrouop to try to make Hypoactive Sexual Desire Disorder more asexual friendly in DSM-5.

Current Members and Responsibilities

Ellie J. - Online media mandrewliter - Online resources and research Matt Engarde - Wikimaster michaeld - Offline UK activities Southpaw - Offline US activities

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