AVEN Project Team
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 LGBT 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 Subworkgroup to try to make Hypoactive Sexual Desire Disorder more asexual friendly in DSM-5.
History
In June 2006, AVENguy proposed a new Project Team structure in this thread. 11 members were to be elected by the AVEN membership to the newly formed Project Team, elections were to be held every 6 months. However the original Project Team had run into some issues. A new Project Team was elected after the previous team was disbanded. Members of the previous team had been accused of elitism, a lack of organization and coherence. During this process, which took place in the Visibility, Education and Organizing forum in June, participants discussed the possible nature of the new Project Team. And in July 2007, a new team of 6 members was elected by the membership. [1]
See here for former PT members
Current Members and Responsibilities
Ellie J. - Online media
mandrewliter - Online resources and research
Henrik - Wikimaster
michaeld - Offline UK activities
Southpaw - Offline US activities
