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5 years ago Nominee: Ryan Abernathey (@rabernat) Affiliation: Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences at Columbia University / Lamont Doherty Earth Observatory
Ryan is a critical member of the community, with a unique vision for the future of data analytics in the earth and environmental sciences. Ryan's unique vision can, arguably, be considered the reason this community exists today. Ryan is not only a unique visionary in this field, but he is a driving force behind many of the community's efforts.
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We are seeking nominations for the Pangeo steering council. We will have seven members.
Nomination Process
Nominations of potential steering council members can be made by anyone from the community, provided that the nominee meets the liberally defined "Contributor" criteria defined above. Self nomination is not allowed. Nominations will take the form of responses to this issue. The nomination should include:
Nominations must be "seconded" by another community member via a like (š) of the post.
Nominations will remain open until Nov. 1, 2018.
Decision Process
We will try to reach a decision by consensus, via discussion here on the issue tracker, amongst the project contributors. There is no vote. We strongly hope and expect to achieve a consensus. If a consensus cannot be reached within two weeks, the interim steering council (myself and @kmpaul) will select the seven steering council members from among the nominees. The process will be concluded by Nov. 15, 2018.
The role of the steering council is described fully in the governance document, from which I quote excerpts here.
The Steering Council
The Project will have a Steering Council that consists of Project Contributors who have produced contributions that are substantial in quality and quantity, and sustained over at least one year. The overall role of the Council is to ensure, through taking input from the Community, the long-term well-being of The Project, both technically and as a community. As The Project draws its strength from representing the Community, it strives to avoid fragmentation of the Community into separate projects, if possible.
During the everyday Project activities, Council Members participate in all discussions, code review and other Project activities as peers with all other Contributors and the Community. In these everyday activities, Council Members do not have any special power or privilege through their membership on the Council. However, it is expected that because of the quality and quantity of their contributions and their expert knowledge of The Project Software and Services that Council Members will provide useful guidance, both technical and in terms of Project direction, to potentially less experienced Contributors.
The Steering Council and its Members play a special role in certain situations. In particular, the Council may:
Council Membership
To become eligible for being a Steering Council Member an individual must be a Project Contributor who has produced contributions that are substantial in quality and quantity, and sustained over at least six months. ~Potential Council Members are nominated by Community Contributors and voted upon by the existing Council, after asking if the potential Member is interested and willing to serve in that capacity. The Council will be initially formed from the set of existing most active Project Contributors as of August, 2018.~ [That does not apply here, as we are introducing a new, ad-hoc process to populate the initial steering council.]
When considering potential Members, the Council will look at candidates with a comprehensive view of their contributions. This will include but is not limited to code, code review, infrastructure work, mailing list and chat participation, community help/building, education and outreach, design work, etc. We are deliberately not setting arbitrary quantitative metrics (like ā100 commits in this repoā) to avoid encouraging behavior that plays to the metrics rather than The Projectās overall well-being. We want to encourage a diverse array of backgrounds, viewpoints and talents in our team, which is why we explicitly do not define code as the sole metric on which Council Membership will be evaluated.
Definition of Contributors
The Project is developed by a team of distributed developers, called Contributors. Contributors are individuals who have contributed to code, code reviews, documentation, design, and infrastructure, or to mailing lists, chats, community help and community building, education and outreach, or other work in relation to one or more Project repositories. Anyone can be a Contributor. Contributors can be affiliated with any legal entity or none. Contributors participate in The Project by submitting, reviewing and discussing GitHub Pull Requests and Issues and participating in open and public Project discussions on GitHub, Gitter chat rooms and mailing lists. The foundation of Project participation is openness and transparency.
Diversity
For the purposes of this initial steering council selection, we will interpret the definition of "contributors" as liberally as possible. We seek to increase the diversity of Pangeo, and this includes providing seats for members of underrepresented groups (specifically women and people of color) on the steering council. By increasing diversity in the project leadership, we hope to encourage diversity at all levels. The Pangeo code of conduct helps ensure that our community is safe and welcoming for people of all backgrounds.