Project Governance

The Evergreen Project is a member project of the Software Freedom Conservancy.

The Evergreen Oversight Board represents the interests of the Evergreen Project to Conservancy and is responsible for assisting Conservancy on enforcing the Evergreen trademark and discussing

• Issues escalated from a committee or other subgroup in the Project that has reached an impasse but requires a decision by informed consensus.
• Issues that do not fall into the purview of any of the established committees or other subgroups, but requires a decision by informed consensus.
• Issues of strategic, as opposed to tactical, importance for the Project that require leadership and vision from above the team or subproject level to achieve
• Sensitive legal or personnel issues which require research and discussion to protect the interests of the Project.

The Board is elected by annual vote by members of the Evergreen Project, namely those who have made direct contributions to Evergreen code, documentation, or committees or those who are employed by institutions running Evergreen.

The fiscal sponsorship agreement [PDF] between the Evergreen Project and the Software Freedom Conservancy defines the relationship under which Evergreen acts as a member project of Conservancy.

The rules of governance for the Evergreen Oversight Board are maintained in a Git repository. The current version in HTML format is available here and is embedded in this page.

Meetings

Meetings are currently held in the #evergreen IRC channel on the Freenode network. They are normally held on the 3rd Thursday of each month at 2 p.m. EDT, 11 a.m. PDT, 18:00 UTC. All interested parties are welcome to observe the meetings.

Minutes from previous meetings can be found here.

Mailing list

The main mailing list of the Board is open to all interested parties. There is also exists a private mailing list that includes representatives of Conservancy, for the purpose of discussing sensitive topics.

• Current mailing list archives and sign-up page
• Archives of the predecessor to the eg-oversight-board mailing list

Current Board members

As of 17 February 2016, the current Board members are

Past Board members

The following individuals have served on the Board or its predecessor, the Governance Committee.