Governance Readiness

Status: Concluded
Bottom liner: Javier Cánovas
Further details: This working group has concluded. You can view details about it in the Discourse discussion thread

Purpose

To define a methodology to identify and deploy healthy governance models.

The main goal of the working group has initially been described as:

Create a checklist to verify whether open source projects are ready to deploy some kind of governance (or to change their current governance for a healthy one).

You can visit the checklist website here.

Other complementary goals are:

Identification of analysis dimensions in open source projects. It may be needed for the assessment of the current status of the project.
List of possible governance models (or most used / recommended)
Recommendations/fixes to make your project governance-ready

What do you understand by “governance readiness”? (e.g., ability to be governed, things to change to enable a specific governance models, etc.)
What do you understand by “governance checklist”? Do we aim at creating an actual checklist?
What should be the actual focus? (e.g., identifying governance models, proposing a change in the model, checking that an OSS project is well governed, etc.)
Should we focus on specific topics? (e.g., community, methodology, etc.)
What is the most immediate step to take? short-term? long-term?
How do you see your contribution to this group?