Feedback request: Founding Documentation: New Committee or Working Group

[Ruv7]

Hi everyone - in a recent meeting that I attended I shared that I was working with @marthacryan to write some documentation for best practices surrounding the process of starting a new committee or working group. Happy to share we've created a template for a few things. Note that all of these should be considered in a draft state and it still needs to be approved by the Executive Council. Sharing because it felt like a great opportunity to get this group involved early. Note that I'm not a software engineer and I find Google Docs easier to collaborate in (compared to GH). I do envision these documents would be added to the Jupyter Governance documentation. Documents are set with permissions that are open for anyone to comment.

Charter Draft Voting General Overview Draft

Goal of Documentation

• Logistical: Have guidance written down so that people don’t feel like they’re starting from scratch every time they’re starting a committee
• Strategic: A way to encourage people to start new committees and working groups - so that they can focus on the other parts of making a committee.

Audience

• Contributors in the Jupyter community: people interested in starting new committees and working groups.

[ericsnekbytes]

These are great, and should help make starting new bodies much easier in the future. I've read through them and made some notes about a few items we can add to the Docs Working Group, thanks for sharing this :)

[Ruv7]

Many thanks! I've added the checklist to GH but I still need to figure out a place for the charter draft and the other items. Part of this is talking with the other folks on the Executive Council to figure out the right place for these documents. I am not sure if changes to the Governance model docs require a joint vote of the EC and SSC. That seems like a high bar for requesting changes. Anyway, various things in the works and I wanted to share them all while they're in progress because the timing