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CHARTER

The Governance working group is a small group chartered by the community to help synthesize and formalize the various governance discussions and documents currently underway.

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Based on stakeholder & community, the group may choose to amend or update its charter or deliverables during the course of its work as long as such changes are communicated openly to the broader community.

MEMBERSHIP

In order to facilitate the tight working timelines necessary to achieve the target deadline, working group membership will be limited to a small 6-8 person agile team which can collaborate efficiently to produce the deliverables in the desired timelines.  With this in mind, we will be soliciting representation from the community as follows:

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Although the group will have limited membership, it will be accountable to ensuring broad community review of each deliverable and input leading to the final proposal.

TIMELINES

• Context: the discussion summary document will be completed by 
  Friday, January 19th, 2018

• Synthesis: the summary of themes will be completed and circulated by 
  Friday, January 19th, 2018

• Draft: initial governance proposal will be drafted for circulation by 
  Friday, February 16th, 2018

• Community Input: will be solicited between 
  Monday, February 19th - Friday, March 2nd, 2018

• Proposal: a revised proposal incorporating stakeholder feedback by 
  Monday, March 12, 2018

• Community Review: circulation of a final proposal between 
  Monday, March 12, 2018 - late March / early April

• Adoption: following online and in-person discussion at a Spring 2018 Partner Meeting.  Community vote to take place within 2 weeks of the partner meeting discussion