Governance Office Hours Meeting Minutes [archives up to 2022 April 22]

The weekly governance call is open to the community members who care about governance issues. The call is held 9-11AM PST on Fridays.

July 2, 2021

  • Attending: Sharan, Ana, Darian, Luciano, Brian, Steve
  • People should be able to serve on either BOD or SSC but not both, this should be clearly expressed in our narrative
  • Reviewed rubric for ranking foundations/KPI ideas: Charity Navigator - Rating for Apache Software Foundation
  • Reviewed Conflict of Interest language in our current SC documentation governance/governance.md at 5ecb52a985d19c2fc194d3cf679281a10b00851f · jupyter/governance · GitHub, current approach isn’t proactive enough, we need more transparency in a complex landscape, next step is to research what others have done and brainstorm a structure
  • We need to create a conflict of interest document to add to the next PR (the SSC + BoD PR)
    Quarterly? Biannual? Annual? review of affiliations/activities that could be perceived as a COI. The need is to establish a process to evaluate COI issues
  • Next steps
    • Improve language in current COI policy
    • Establish working group to evaluate COI
    • Ask anyone nominated for BOD or SSC roles to reveal their affiliations and whether they’re willing to be subject to audit