Skip to content

nipreps/GOVERNANCE

Folders and files

NameName
Last commit message
Last commit date

Latest commit

 

History

78 Commits
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

Repository files navigation

The NiPreps Community's Governance Documents

The NiPreps Community's Governance Documents are derived from the Minimum Viable Governance (MVG) project, adapted following the discussion within the NiPreps Governance task-force, and finally approved by the community members on April 26, 2023.

The MVG foundation provides an overall three-tier organizational governance structure for a set of free and open source components of the NiPreps Framework. At the top level (called an "organization" on GitHub; github.com/nipreps), there is a technical steering committee to make decisions about the overall direction and coordination between all the organization's projects. Underneath that top level are the individual projects (e.g., nipreps/fmriprep), with lightweight, consensus-based governance. The third tier are "sibling organizations" (e.g., TemplateFlow, which have the structure of GitHub "organizations" but the governance of individual projects (i.e., lightweight, consensus-based).

The Governance Documents are organized in three folders. The first, org-docs/, provides top-level organizational governance and polices for a technical steering committee (NiPreps steering committee, NSC). The core of this top-level governance is contained in the orgs-docs/CHARTER.md file. The second folder, project-docs/, provides a template for individual project governance, subject to the polices and oversight of the larger organization. The third folder, sibling-docs/, provides a minimal template for the governance of sibling organizations, subject to the policies and oversight of the NiPreps organization.