This Manual of Operations is meant to assist the officers of the Computer Science Graduate Student Organization (CS-GSO) at the University of Pittsburgh with their responsibilities. It was first created in August 2014 by Timothy J Parenti, President of the CS-GSO, 2013--2015.
It is intended to be a constant reference to future officers of the organization throughout their terms of office, and to be updated by the same over the course of the years to accurately reflect any changes to the broader landscape in which the organization operates, as well as the operational adjustments which have made to accommodate such changes.
This is a living document. By no means does this manual aim to completely specify everything the CS-GSO does or should do. The presence of suggestions herein does not bind future officers to adhere to those practices; likewise, the absence of an item does not preclude them from taking action on it as they see fit. When, inevitably, circumstances dictate that a procedure outlined herein be changed, this document should be updated accordingly for the benefit of future boards.
The source files for this manual live in a Git repository at https://github.com/pittcsgso/manual. It is the responsibility of departing officers of the CS-GSO to ensure that sufficient access permissions to this repository are given to incoming officers.
Command-line tools for Git are available from
http://www.git-scm.com/,
as well as through most package managers. The Makefile in this repository
automatically stamps compiled copies of this document with the commit, author,
and date on which it is based. Be sure to commit changes with git commit
before running make.