Governance Readiness Working Group

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Hi everyone,

thanks for indicating your availability for our first meeting, here you are the details.

Kick-off meeting: Tuesday, April 14th 2020 @ 18:00 UTC

For your convenience, some time zone conversions are:

  • California: 11:00
  • New York: 14:00
  • London: 19:00
  • Madrid: 20:00

Agenda

This is a tentative agenda. Feel free to propose new entries. Being the first meeting, I think the important point is to set the main goal of the working group and identify the next steps.

  • [5m] Welcome
  • [5-10m] Short introductions.
    • What is your main motivation to be here?
    • How do you think you can help?
  • [5-10m] Review of SustainOSS session.
    • Do you find useful/correct the classification?
  • [20-25m] The goal of the Working Group
    NOTE: the current goal is to define a methodology to identify and deploy healthy governance models
    • What do you understand by ā€œgovernance readinessā€? (e.g., ability to be governed, things to change to enable specific governance models, etc.)
    • The Working Group was initially named as ā€œgovernance readiness checklistā€, does it refer to a methodology to identify governance models?
  • [10-15m] What to do next
    • What should be the most immediate target? (e.g., ways to represent governance models, catalog of models, etc.)
    • Should we focus on specific topics? (e.g., community, methodology, etc.)
    • When should we have the next meeting? monthly basis?
  • [XXm] Open questions

Making the meeting effective

To make the most of the meeting, it would be nice that participants have a look at these things:

  1. To do: Check the 2-pages-long report of the SustainOSS session
    Why: It summarizes the ideas of the session and proposes a classification for them.

  2. To do: Think about your motivation and how you can contribute to this working group
    Why: It will help to identify the main assets of our working group

  3. To do: Think about what ā€œgovernance readinessā€ means for you
    Why: It will help us to have an agreed definition of the term and also to identify next steps

Joining the call

We will use Google Hangouts for the call. Iā€™ll send the details of the event to the confirmed attendees. If you have not participated in the doodle but wanna join, just contact me.

Looking forward to our first chat tomorrow :slight_smile:

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