United 3D Artists Job Board
These positions need to be filled to keep U3DA running. They are the administrators of our various resources.This post will be edited to reflect the status of the jobs.
To apply make a post in this thread. Applicants should be forum members who are available to act when needed.
Hopefully, there will be two people in each position so someone will be available when needed and to preserve access to the resource.
Most positions require little technical knowledge or experience but it helps to have it. Performance of a job’s duties usually consists of using a user interface(s) similar to the back end of Wordpress or Joomla or when you use the forum. These jobs only occasionally require action.
This is unpaid volunteer work. These “officers” do this in service to their fellow U3DA members.
Prodigy is still admin of everything and imo should be but he is busy with real life. So U3DA needs you to be admins. Besides, wouldn’t it be great if he could just visit, do a speed model, have some fun when he has time to be here?
Note from Finis: I’m not your daddy.
I gained access to U3DA’s resources as an emergency action because of the malware/hack and to get new administrators into these jobs. It was not my intention to be admin of everything. I will resign from treasurer and admin stuff, maybe not host if needed, in a few months with or without new people in those jobs. You all have to “step up” and do these jobs if you want the forum to keep going. Most aren't difficult and might be fun!_____________________________
JOB: Main Site Administrator (Front Page)
STATUS:
Job 1: Clintonman
Job 2: Froo
DESCRIPTION: The front page is a website. It is a separate entity from the forum. In the past that website has acted as a front page to introduce the forum. It could be developed into a full website with much content.
This person maintains and modifies the U3DA website. He makes decisions regarding the site. He seeks the guidance or consent of the U3DA members when appropriate. He updates the software, installs plugins/modifications, assigns powers or abilities to others (such as user accounts who can add content or act as moderators), supervises users, adds and removes content, and more using the Joomla CMS. He works with host admin and forum admin as needed.
REQUIREMENTS: Willingness to learn Joomla CMS is required. Experience with Joomla is preferred. Experience with Wordpress, Drupal, or other CMS or blogging systems would help with learning Joomla. The applicant should be able to supervise moderators and users. https://www.joomla.org/
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JOB: Forum Administrator
STATUS:
Job 1: Stan
Job 2: Clintonman
DESCRIPTION: The forum is the main gathering place for the U3DA members. It is where we post about our projects, show our pictures, write tutorials, have challenges, and so on. It is a separate entity from the front page/main site.
This person maintains and modifies the U3DA forum. He makes decisions regarding the forum. He seeks the guidance or consent of the U3DA members when appropriate. He updates the software, installs plugins/modifications, assigns powers or abilities to others (such as moderators), supervises moderators and users, can act as a moderator, and more using phpBB administrator control panel. He works with host admin and main site admin as needed.
REQUIREMENTS: Willingness to learn phpBB adminstrator control panel is required. Experience with that is preferred. Experience with Wordpress, Drupal, or other CMS or blogging systems would help with learning the phpBB back end. The applicant should be able to supervise moderators and users. https://www.phpbb.com/
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JOB: Host Administrator
STATUS:
Job 1: Clintonman
Job 2: Froo
DESCRIPTION: The host administrator controls the fundamental resources provided by our host to support websites and all things related to them. This where Prodigy installed phpBB and Joomla and the forum and the front page site were born.
This person uses cpanel to install, uninstall, update software, maintain databases, make backups, create and manage email accounts and FTP accounts, create subdomains, manage the many files needed, deal with security issues, and work with the host company to resolve problems. He works with forum admin and main site admin as needed. He makes decisions when needed. He seeks the guidance or consent of the U3DA members when appropriate.
This is the most technical of the admin jobs.
This demo of cpanel will show you the various tasks and abilities related to host admin. https://www.cpanel.com/demo/
REQUIREMENTS: Experience with cpanel and this work is preferred. Ideally, this person has experience as a host admin including dealing with web hosts, using cpanel, and creating and managing websites. An understanding of a broad range of related resources and tools needed by websites as well as medium or better knowledge of how websites and the web work is very beneficial. Additional skills such as understanding html, htaccess files and SQL is preferable. This person must have a suitable technical background to learn any of the host admin tools as needed.
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JOB: Treasurer
STATUS:
Job 1: Finis is currently treasurer but will retire May-June 2017.
Job 2: OPEN
DESCRIPTION: This person pays U3DA’s bills. He collects donations from forum members. He has login credentials for the billing account on our host, our domain registrar, and any other resources that require payment.
This position requires no significant technical knowledge. The treasurer usually acts once every three years or so when our hosting or domain name is renewed. He works with forum admin, main site admin, and host admin as needed.
REQUIREMENTS: The treasurer must have a PayPal account or some other means of receiving donations from members. That means must be available worldwide.
Though we may need to help each other on the getting up to speed part. I haven't done much yet. Plan to make a backup this weekend and then try to rebuild the site from scratch locally and update the forum software. Any roadblocks will show me what I don't know before doing anything serious. Then finally perform real updates on the actual site.