ODC SC Meeting 2017 03 03

Summary of outcomes and actions from first Governance Subcommittee meeting

Key Outcomes:

1. We've created a governance subcommittee currently consisting of:

• Alex Mason
• Otto Wagner
• Rob Woodcock
• Sanjay Gowda
• Andrew Cherry
• Damien Ayers
• Trevor Dhu
• Andrew Hicks

We would like to invite our USGS and Colombian partners to consider joining and helping in this initial effort.

This committee will drive the process with a target date of 31 March, 2017 for having:

• a governance model in place and supported by the community
• names against the various roles in the governance model

2. We'll use the Jupyter Project governance model as our starting point
3. We'll try to make as few changes to this model as possible in order to try and keep everything consistent
4. We've established an initial repository structure for the required governance artefacts

Actions/Points for Broader Discussion

1. Discuss copyright issues

• should consider having copyright reassigned to an entity (this will allow for the community to later change the open source licensing etc.)
• if you have IP that isn't open or you don't want to reassign the copyright then it shouldn't be put into this repository
• TerriaJS has a bot that allows for this to be done automatically

2. Need to determine the voting process for Open Data Cube Enhancement Proposals

• jupyter doesn't have a defined voting mechanism for enhancement proposals
• Damien and Alex will bring back a recommendation to the group

3. Need to identify some training people so that non-technical folk (i.e. Jono and Trev) can easily contribute to the github community

4. Group discussed whether or not we should be including material here about ARD definitions

• came to the conclusion that this isn't the way to go
• need to ensure that the appropriate CEOS committee's drive this as it will be important to the success of our community