SciCat Project Governance

IMPORTANT: these governance document are still a work-in-progress

Introduction

The purpose of this repository is to formalize the governance process that the SciCat project follows and has been using informally for the past few years. These documents clarify who has which responsibility, how decisions are made and how the various elements of our community interact. It is based from Bluesky governance, which has been adapted from GitHub's Minimum Viable Governance.

Why?

Data cataloging, curation and sharing are becoming a critical step in many facilities data lifecycle. The SciCat project and its community aims to communicate clearly how the project is managed, how the priorities are set and effort is allocated. We would like to formalize and document the processes contributors and adopters can follow to become active members of the community and easily contribute to the project. This effort is also important to communicate the commitment of the community to the Project and render SciCat a viable and well thought option in the landscape of data catalogues.

Purpose

The governance documents aim to formalize the SciCat project (following referred as the Project) as an international, multi-facility, community-driven project.

Adoption

Project contributors, adopting facilities and commercial partners agree to adhere to the definition, procedure and responsabilities described in the content of these documents

Governance Entities Mission

The Governance Entities of the Project are set in place to promote a positive development culture through caring for the entire community, strategic management, outreach, commitment to quality, effort on sustainability.

Governance Keywords

• Community
• Strategy
• Outreach
• Quality
• Sustainability

Governance Components

• Governing Entities
  • User Community
  • Contributors Community
  • Technical Leaders
  • Project Leaders
  • Steering Committee
  • Advisory Boards
• Project Components
  • SciCat Project
  • SciCat Core
  • Supported Projects
  • Project Channels
• Procedures
  • Voting
  • Nomination
  • Member Early Dismissal
  • Supported Project Request
  • Repo Archival
  • Project Decision
• Code of conduct

Status

These documents are in active development. They have been adapted from Bluesky Governance, which have been derived from the GitHub's Minimum Viable Governance. We are in Step 1 of the following process:

1. Develop a draft of the governance.
2. Collect feedback and contributions from Collaborators and the Community Please use GitHub Issues on this repository to provide feedback.
3. Content revision based on feedback.
4. Announce initial memberships for each group and committee and maintainers for each repo, if possible.

Even if we are in step 1, we already working to find Project Leaders, and forming the Main Technical Committee.