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Governance of the R Contribution Working Group (RCWG) #10

Closed SaranjeetKaur closed 2 years ago

SaranjeetKaur commented 2 years ago

Perhaps a Steering Committee can be set up for the smooth functioning of the RCWG.

hturner commented 2 years ago

A steering committee seems over-complicated for a working group. I would say the R core members that attend act as the senior stakeholders or experts.

That's not to say that we shouldn't consider the governance of the working group though. I guess I am the de facto leader as the one that got the working group off the ground. I enlisted @nzgwynn and @karawoo as links to MiR and R-Ladies respectively - we might want to formalize this a bit more into a leadership team. Not sure what they/others link about that, or if there are other things we could do to improve governance of the group.

nzgwynn commented 2 years ago

I agree that a steering committee seems over-complicated. I prefer flat management to anything hierarchical.

hturner commented 2 years ago

View of WG at September meeting in line with comments above (R Core/R Foundation provide steering for the group, flat structure is working okay for now). So closing this issue.