Jeff Best

Contact Details

• Telephone: 264409

Roles

• Guide: 2007 - present
• Lead Guide: 2008 - present
• Director: 27/05/2007 - 03/06/2011, 15/06/2018 - present
• Company Secretary: 27/05/2007 - 03/06/2011, 01/01/2020 - present
• Acting Chairman: 14/06/2019 - present
• Domain/Web/Email Administrator (highsalvingtonmilltrust.co.uk): 2007 - present
• Domain/Web/Email Administrator (highsalvingtonwindmill.co.uk): 2018 - present

Projects

• Website Membership Payments
  • Status: Awaiting on Treasurer setting up official account with provider.
    • I think she agreed for us to use Stripe...
  • To Do:
    • Final wording of each page of plug-in.
    • Install payment buttons for each membership category.
    • Test!
    • Document.
    • Release.
• Members' and Volunteers' Wiki
  • Status: Awaiting review from various people.
  • To Do:
    • Training document to explain how to edit pages.
      • Possible assistance from possible new trainer.
    • Encourage input from experienced members of Trust.
      • Accounts created for Bob Potts, Peter Casebow.
    • Keep under review progress on MediaWiki rich text editor or find way to get it working on a private wiki.
    • Keep photographing engineering features of mills.
• Health & Safety Review
  • Status: In progress
  • To Do:
    • Health & Safety Policy being written, by Jeff Best.
    • Mill Operation Risks documented by Jeff Best, on behalf of Hazel Marsden.
    • First draft risk assessment produced by Paul Minter.
    • Awaiting feedback from Hazel Roper about how many RAs may be needed. It may be several sections
      • Hazel has involved Lloyd Harris from Worthing Borough Council
    • We will need additional sections for some of these, e.g.
      • Working at height. Lloyd has forbidden sail climbing without use of a fall arrest system.
      • Lifting heavy weights (runner stone, wind pump frame, stocks, sails, etc.)
      • Allergy - anaphylactic shock
• Find Secretary/Company Secretary Replacement
  • Hazel Collins has volunteered and will attend next Board meeting for Board to confirm appointment.
  • Currently appointed by Chairman as "Assistant Secretary".
• Find permanent Chairman
• Multimedia jukebox for self-service of videos, audio clips and photographs on open days.
  • Three hardware prototypes.
  • Two software prototypes.
  • To Do:
    • Find a larger monitor for an additional hardware prototype.
    • Build a case for prototype(s) we decide to use.
    • Work out best way to mount
    • Develop simple transport and set-up options for use at exhibitions.
    • Change media linkage on static HTML version to use in-page players.
      • This will solve the problem of no obvious return mechanism, using touch display, to full page player triggered by following direct file link.