From 4a356b428390409374421eebcc57ac6982781ae6 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Chris Markiewicz Date: Mon, 13 Nov 2023 10:31:54 -0500 Subject: [PATCH 1/2] Define active contributors and update voting procedure These changes were adopted by the BIDS community in the 2023 election. --- _pages/governance.md | 21 +++++++++++++++++---- 1 file changed, 17 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-) diff --git a/_pages/governance.md b/_pages/governance.md index 0b881cc1..379aa284 100644 --- a/_pages/governance.md +++ b/_pages/governance.md @@ -230,6 +230,18 @@ Members of the BIDS Contributors Group are encouraged to support the BIDS specification by supporting the members of the Maintainers Group in their responsibilities. +An *Active Contributor* is defined as a contributor that is reachable via +the email address they provided to the BIDS maintainers team, +and responds to correspondence by the BIDS group +(for example, maintainers/steering group or the BIDS community at large). +Contributors may explicitly opt in or out of activity at any time. +The maintainers group is responsible for providing transparent procedures for +contributors to opt in/out as well as providing procedures for +removing non-responsive members from the list of active contributors. +In case of no response, +a grace period of two years is in place before a formerly active contributor +loses their "active" status. + ### BIDS Advisory Group This group contains previous BEP Working Group Leads. @@ -370,10 +382,11 @@ the Steering Group and merged into the BIDS standard. ### B. Voting Procedure -The BIDS Steering Group is elected by a vote of the BIDS Contributors -Group. At the discretion of the BIDS Steering Group, additional -elections may be called and propositions may be put before the community -in the course of a Steering Group election. +The BIDS Steering Group is elected by a vote of the active BIDS Contributors +Group. +At the discretion of the BIDS Steering Group, +additional elections may be called and propositions may be put before +the community in the course of a Steering Group election. Elections will be managed through a 3rd party platform that allows restricting votes to a specific set of email addresses while maintaining From 40b394e9a9d0668d5e7c01aab213e942ebfa01b7 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Stefan Appelhoff Date: Tue, 14 Nov 2023 15:54:15 +0100 Subject: [PATCH 2/2] capitalization Co-authored-by: Chris Markiewicz --- _pages/governance.md | 6 +++--- 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) diff --git a/_pages/governance.md b/_pages/governance.md index 379aa284..ba1d7558 100644 --- a/_pages/governance.md +++ b/_pages/governance.md @@ -231,11 +231,11 @@ BIDS specification by supporting the members of the Maintainers Group in their responsibilities. An *Active Contributor* is defined as a contributor that is reachable via -the email address they provided to the BIDS maintainers team, +the email address they provided to the BIDS Maintainers team, and responds to correspondence by the BIDS group -(for example, maintainers/steering group or the BIDS community at large). +(for example, Maintainers/Steering Group or the BIDS community at large). Contributors may explicitly opt in or out of activity at any time. -The maintainers group is responsible for providing transparent procedures for +The Maintainers Group is responsible for providing transparent procedures for contributors to opt in/out as well as providing procedures for removing non-responsive members from the list of active contributors. In case of no response,