Governance

A governance model describes the roles that project participants can take on and the process for strategic and tactical decision making within the project. In addition, it describes the ground rules for participation in the project and the processes for communicating and sharing within the project team and community.

This section of the toolkit is focused on activities that will help you think through how to establish stabilize and evolve sustainable governance for your program. It will not hand you the perfect governance model or provide tools to use in everyday governance. It is designed to help you structure discussions and gain consensus about next steps for sustainable governance of your OSS program. (say this nicer)