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Governance

Governance

How the foundation, the Council of Meaning and the projects work together.

Structure

Board

Legal, finance, IP, trademarks

Council of Meaning

Advisory: community, users, research; guards neutrality

Projects

Each with its own Project Management Committee

  • Context Contract Specification
  • Portable Semantic Package
  • Context Runtime & Conformance Suite
  • Design Method (documentation)

Roles

  1. Contributor
  2. Committer
  3. PMC member
  4. (Merit-based)

Working agreements

  • Decisions are made in public channels ("if it didn't happen on the list, it didn't happen")
  • Lazy consensus
  • +1/0/−1 votes on releases
  • Signed releases with LICENSE and NOTICE files