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Define active contributors and update voting procedure #347

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Expand Up @@ -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).
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not sure of capitalization of "maintainers group" and "steering group". I'd just want it to be consistent with the rest of the document.

Contributors may explicitly opt in or out of activity at any time.
The maintainers group is responsible for providing transparent procedures for
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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.
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Note that I added a minor grammatical change from the adopted language: "is losing" -> "loses".

I do not believe this changes the intent or plain meaning of the sentence, but I can revert it if others disagree.


### BIDS Advisory Group

This group contains previous BEP Working Group Leads.
Expand Down Expand Up @@ -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
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