Steering Council
Although most project activity is driven by the maintainers, a Steering Council is defined in the bylaws to organize and lead activities and decisions that do not primarily pertain to software decisions. The Steering Council and its members play a special role in certain situations. In particular, the council may:
- Make decisions about the overall scope, vision, and direction of the project.
- Make decisions about strategic collaborations with other organizations or individuals.
- Make decisions about legal issues.
- Make decisions about the Services that are run by The Project and manage those Services for the benefit of The Project and Community.
- Make decisions when regular community discussion does not produce consensus on an issue in a reasonable time frame.
- Create processes to empower community consensus building on important policy questions.
- Create and update policy documents.
- Approve expenditures of Project funds.
- Appoint a Lead Maintainer.
The current Steering Council consists of:
- Eduardo Almeida (chair)
- Peter Barnes
- Biljana Bojovic
- Tom Henderson
- Mohit Tahiliani
The steering council can be reached at council@nsnam.org.