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Further detail is provided in the OpenXT Platform Properties document.
Project Governance Board
The OpenXT Project shall have a Governance Board of seven appointed individuals.
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Board members accept the responsibility of actively building consensus within the community.
Board Member Responsibilities
The members of the Governance Board are required to:
Attend the monthly Community Call.
Provide guidance and direction to project contributors on how to address challenges presented by proposed changes in order to seek solutions that are acceptable and desirable to all the project stakeholders and in alignment with the OpenXT Project Purpose.
Participate in the Consensus Building Process, the Voting Process and in Changes to the Board.
- Ensure that OpenXT Project decisions are recorded.
For each Community Call at least one member of the Governance Board shall:
- Ensure that minutes are taken for each Community Call meeting, and
- Send the minutes of the meeting to the mailing list, and
- Archive a public copy of the minutes to the project wiki.
Board Changes
The legitimacy of the Board and its decisions depends upon the composition of the Board reflecting the balance of stakeholders within the OpenXT Project.
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Vacancies shall be filled by a unanimous appointment by the remaining members of the Board with a formal notification to the mailing list and revision of this document to record the appointee.
Board Member Responsibilities
The members of the Governance Board are required to:
Attend the monthly Community Call.
Provide guidance and direction to project contributors on how to address challenges presented by proposed changes in order to seek solutions that are acceptable and desirable to all the project stakeholders and in alignment with the OpenXT Project Purpose.
Participate in the Consensus Building Process, the Voting Process and in Changes to the Board.
- Ensure that OpenXT Project decisions are recorded.
For each Community Call at least one member of the Governance Board shall:
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Governance Changes
To be described
Changes may be made by the following process:
- Collect and understand the perspectives of affected stakeholders.
- Send a written RFC to the OpenXT mailing list.
- Discuss the RFC on the monthly OpenXT community call.
- Publish revised RFC to the mailing list.
- Finalize and accept the RFC on the next community call.
- If consensus exists on the list/call, one Board member (other than the proposer) records the decision and consensus in a JIRA ticket.
- If no consensus on the list/call, the proposer escalates the decision to the Board via JIRA ticket. The Board uses the "Consensus Building Process" defined in this document.
Project Changes
The Board will assist the community by providing guidance and recommendations on direction of work that will increase the potential for consensus to be obtained to accept changes within the project. Proposed changes will be described in Request For Comment (RFC) documents. RFC documents should adhere to the template for these established within the project.
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Compatible Works use OpenXT Platform Properties to make validated assurances. A list of Compatible Works and their validated assurances will be published in OpenXT Project documentation. Compatible Works are developed and governed independently of the OpenXT Project. Developers of Compatible Works can propose technical changes to the OpenXT Platform using the process defined by "Project Changes" in this document.
Governance Document and Board Structure Amendments
Changes may be made by the following process:
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in this document.
Governance Board
This section shall contain the names of the current Governance Board. It shall be modified to contain the names of new board members when necessary and shall not require a vote beyond the approval of the resolutions appointing the board members.
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The Community Conference Call is public and open to all members of the OpenXT community.
Notification of the Community Conference Call should be sent to the mailing list at a time between one week and one day prior to the call. The Notification shall include the timing of the call and the telephone access information for the call.
The Community Call will be hosted by a member of the OpenXT community.
License of this Governance Document
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