TWiki-Governance-Structure

Interim Executive Board

• They draw all final decisions until the Governance structure is established.
• It is their ultimate and most important task to make themselves obsolete.
• Founds the association (executive body)
• Deals with TWiki.net for getting the licence.
• Deals with Peter Thoeny and makes sure, he does not fall back into the BDFL-role.
• Responds to threats to TWiki.org as an open-source-project
• Recommends a fork if they are convinced it is the right thing to do.
• Handles paid help (legal advice, etc.)
• Deals with donations and help from companies.
• Is responsible to initiate a TWiki-Governance structure
• The interim executive board is elected on the TWiki Summit on 2008/09/05 at 16.00 CET.
• The board shall consist of a 5 members.

Roles of the Association

• The foundation is responsible for politics, marketing and financial stuff.
• It is responsible for recruiting programmers and contributors for the community.
• It draws all final decisions in the community, if needed (tie-breaking).
• Makes sure that charters and task teams evolve.

The operations council

• The board of directors makes sure, that TWiki is the best wiki software available.
• It is an operational body to develop the software.
• It shall not be distracted by politics, marketing or financial stuff.

Interim Executive Board

• Adam 17
• Lynnwood 11
• Kenneth 18
• Crawford 16
• Peter 9
• Michael 15
• Andre 8
• Martin 8
• Sven 3

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