Charter for CrateWorks

This is the organisational charter for CrateWorks (the “Organisation”). By adding their name to the steering committee roster, Steering Committee members agree as follows.

1. Mission

CrateWorks exists to maintain an RO-Crate API specification and steward the open-source tools that speak it. Our goal is a composable, interoperable workbench that lets researchers, archivists, and developers swap any tool for any other and trust the pieces still fit together, because they all share the same data format and access protocol.

2. Steering Committee

2.1 Purpose. The Steering Committee will be responsible for all technical oversight, project approval and oversight, and policy oversight for the Organisation.

2.2 Composition. The Steering Committee voting members are listed in the steering committee roster. Voting members may be added or removed by no less than 3/4 affirmative vote of the Steering Committee. The Steering Committee will appoint a Chair responsible for organising Steering Committee activity.

3. Voting

3.1. Decision Making. The Steering Committee will strive for all decisions to be made by consensus. While explicit agreement of the entire Steering Committee is preferred, it is not required for consensus. Rather, the Steering Committee will determine consensus based on their good faith consideration of a number of factors, including the dominant view of the Steering Committee and nature of support and objections. The Steering Committee will document evidence of consensus in accordance with these requirements. If consensus cannot be reached, the Steering Committee will make the decision by a vote.

3.2. Voting. The Steering Committee Chair will call a vote with reasonable notice to the Steering Committee, setting out a discussion period and a separate voting period. Any discussion may be conducted in person or electronically by text, voice, or video. The discussion will be open to the public. In any vote, each voting representative will have one vote. Except as specifically noted elsewhere in this Charter, decisions by vote require a simple majority vote of all voting members.

4. Termination of Membership

In addition to the method set out in section 2.2, the membership of a Steering Committee member will terminate if any of the following occur:

4.1 Resignation. Written notice of resignation to the Steering Committee.

4.2 Unreachable Member. If a member is unresponsive at its listed handle for more than three months the Steering Committee may vote to remove the member.

5. No Confidentiality

Information disclosed in connection with any of the Organisation’s activities, including but not limited to meetings, Contributions, and submissions, is not confidential, regardless of any markings or statements to the contrary.

6. Project Criteria

In order to be eligible to be an Organisation project, a project must:

• Be approved by the Steering Committee.
• Agree to follow the guidance and direction of the Steering Committee.
• Use only the following outbound licences or agreements unless otherwise approved:
  • For code, a licence on the Open Source Initiative’s list of Popular Licenses.
  • For data, a licence on the Open Knowledge Foundation’s list of Recommended Conformant Licenses.
  • For specifications, a community developed and maintained specification agreement, such as the Open Web Foundation Agreements or Community Specification Agreement.
• Include and adhere to the Organisation’s policies, including the code of conduct.

7. Amendments

Amendments to this charter or the code of conduct may only be made with at least a 3/4 affirmative vote of the Steering Committee.

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Adapted from MVG-0.1-beta by GitHub, licensed under the CC-BY 4.0 License.