# Idea for 2023 summit: Sustain Governance Readiness Checklist mini-project

**URL:** <https://discourse.sustainoss.org/t/idea-for-2023-summit-sustain-governance-readiness-checklist-mini-project/1084>\
**Category:** Design & UX\
**Tags:** sustain-summit\
**Created:** [August 15, 2022, 11:39pm UTC](https://discourse.sustainoss.org/t/idea-for-2023-summit-sustain-governance-readiness-checklist-mini-project/1084 "2022-08-15T23:39:54Z")\
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**Author:** ![jwf](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex032/user_avatar/discourse.sustainoss.org/jwf/32/1093_2.png) [@jwf](https://discourse.sustainoss.org/u/jwf)\
**Post date:** [August 15, 2022, 11:39pm UTC](https://discourse.sustainoss.org/t/idea-for-2023-summit-sustain-governance-readiness-checklist-mini-project/1084/1 "2022-08-15T23:39:54Z")

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Hi folks, over the last few months of meetings, we were having early discussions about what a satellite event co-located with the next Sustain OSS Summit might look like and what activities we would organize for there.

One example of inter-group collaboration with Sustain, I was recently using the [Sustain Governance Readiness Checklist](https://sustainers.github.io/governance-readiness/) organized by @jlcanovas. I keep coming back to this as a helpful resource to facilitate discussion and guide thinking about open source. I thought it could make for an interesting project for us to consider to support a redesign of the checklist as an activity during the summit.

What a redesign means could be discussed, but generally I was thinking of ways to make the site more visual or interactive than it is currently. This could involve user testing in-person or virtually, creating visualizations or flowcharts of complex questions, and improving the logical grouping of content presented to the reader. I think this is a narrow enough project that it could be worked on during a mini-summit, and if not fully completed, then coordinated for launch after the summit.

Any thoughts or opinions on this as a mini-project? Is it too hands-on for what we are thinking or would something like this be useful to pursue?

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**Author:** ![RichardLitt](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex032/user_avatar/discourse.sustainoss.org/richardlitt/32/8_2.png) [@RichardLitt](https://discourse.sustainoss.org/u/RichardLitt)\
**Post date:** [August 16, 2022, 12:46am UTC](https://discourse.sustainoss.org/t/idea-for-2023-summit-sustain-governance-readiness-checklist-mini-project/1084/2 "2022-08-16T00:46:21Z")

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This sounds great to me. I was just talking to @greggish today about the idea of having this turned into an interactive form, too (his idea).

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**Author:** ![greggish](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/dc4da7/32.png) [@greggish](https://discourse.sustainoss.org/u/greggish)\
**Post date:** [August 16, 2022, 4:46pm UTC](https://discourse.sustainoss.org/t/idea-for-2023-summit-sustain-governance-readiness-checklist-mini-project/1084/3 "2022-08-16T16:46:37Z")

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Right on!

As Richard alluded, I was recently in touch with @Dr-G who worked on [Internews’ Open Source Software Needs Assessment toolkit](https://internews.org/areas-of-expertise/global-tech/resources/open-source-software-lightweight-needs-assessment/) – which [we discussed here](https://discourse.sustainoss.org/t/governance-readiness-working-group/298/72) as a potentially relevant counterpart to the components of the Governance Guide that we’ve been (very slowly) developing. Gina has moved on from Internews but gave me a contact there with whom I can follow up.

In my mind, these components – [the principles and matrix of questions](https://sustainoss.org/working-groups/governance-guidance/), plus a needs assessment tool, and also maybe just maybe [Community.Rule](https://Community.Rule) – could be different components that assemble into something truly valuable. A Governance Guidance Voltron.