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 | Minjia Zhang    | [minjiazhang](https://github.com/minjiazhang)  | UIUC  |
 | Ashwin Aji      | [ashwinma](https://github.com/ashwinma)        | AMD   |
 | Sam Foreman     | [saforem2](https://github.com/saforem2)        | Argonne National Laboratory |
-| Zhipeng Wang    | [PKUWZP](https://github.com/PKUWZP)       | LinkedIn  |
+| Zhipeng Wang    | [PKUWZP](https://github.com/PKUWZP)       | LinkedIn  |
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+# Responsibilities of the DeepSpeed Committers 
+
+The Committer of the DeepSpeed project will be responsible for overseeing the project, with particular responsibilities described as following:
+
+### Reviewing Pull Requests, Issues and Proposals (RFCs) in a timely manner, and help maintain the necessary code quality for all contributions.
+
+Committers are responsible for maintaining the quality of the codebase and ensuring that contributions meet the project's standards. 
+More specifically, this includes timely reviewing the incoming pull requests (PR), issues and proposals (RFCs), and routing the PRs to
+the right owners for high quality reviews. Committers are also responsible for providing constructive feedback to contributors, 
+helping to maintain the code quality for all code merges/contributions. 
+
+
+### Setting up the long-term technical roadmaps and strategic vision for the DeepSpeed project.
+
+Given the rapid development of the AI and ML ecosystem, the committers are responsible for periodically reviewing the unique value proposition
+of the DeepSpeed project, and hold discussions internally to establish the long-term technical roadmaps for the project development. 
+Also the committers are responsible for setting up the strategic vision, which includes building and growing the contributor community, 
+and improving adoption and compatibility in the fast-evolving AI ecosystem. 
+
+### Leading the collaboration to work with other open source or open standards communities. 
+
+The committers are responsible for coordinating and collaborating with other open source or open standards communities to improve 
+DeepSpeed's compatibility and interoperability with other projects. The committers are also responsible for holding discussions 
+internally to reach consensus on what open source projects to collaborate with, and how to position DeepSpeed in the open source ecosystem.
+
+### Organizing the DeepSpeed Community Meetups, Marketing and Events etc. Maintaining the DeepSpeed Website and monitoring the Social Media Platforms.
+
+The committers are responsible for organizing the DeepSpeed community meetups, Marketing and Events etc. They are also responsible 
+for maintaining/updating the DeepSpeed website, and monitor/steering the DeepSpeed social media platforms to maintain the healthy culture
+of the discussions. 
+
+### Establishing community norms, workflows, issuing releases, and security issue reporting policies.
+
+The committers are responsible for establishing the project's overarching workflow, including issuing releases and security issue reporting policies.
+
+### Approving and implementing policies and processes for contributing (as published in the CONTRIBUTING file).
+
+### Discussions, seeking consensus, and where necessary, voting on technical matters relating to the codebase that affect multiple projects.
+
+The committers are responsible for making important technical decisions related to the codebase through discussions, seeking consensus, 
+and where necessary, voting to ensure transparency and accountability in the decision-making process.