Project Leader

• Should be the most knowledgable in the group about the project topic.
• Responsible for project planning (defining tasks and scheduling them), task assignment, task monitoring (recording weekly progress), updating the on-line project description and progress.
• Project leaders are expected to be contributing members.

Contributing Member

• Expected to expend time, thought, and energy to solve, complete, and check-in solutions to project-related tasks.
• Assist with project planning and group discussion when appropriate.

Project Consultant

• Provides valuable ideas and/or insight into how solve specific challenges within the project as they arise.
• Project Consultants may not expend much time and energy towards project tasks. Their role is primarily advisory.

Task Consultant

• Acts as a consultant for a single project task. A Task Consultant may actually expend time, thought, and energy towards this single task.

Observer

• Participates in meetings, discussions, and planning related to the project.
• Primarily for the educational benefit or interest of the Observer.
• Observers get no accomplishment credit for this role, but may be a Task Consultant.