# Steering Committee Doc
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The Steering Committee’s role is to provide continuity, guidance, and suggestions to the Ansible, and to ensure delivery of the Ansible Community package. The Steering Committee should reflect the scope and breadth of the Ansible Community.

## Committee Member Responsibilities:

1. Design policies and procedures for the collections ecosystem.
1. Review content (collections for now) for compliance with the policies.
1. Help create the community deliverables (community.general collection, community.network collection, the ansible-tarball, community documentation website).
1. Ballot on approval of new proposals and changes to policies.
1. Identify and train individuals from the community who are interested in contributing to Ansible.

## Expectations of a Committee Member:

As a steering committee member, you agree to:

1. Abide by the Ansible Community Code of Conduct.
1. Join and participate in weekly meetings and asynchronous discussions.
1. Not promote corporate or individual agenda during the decision making process.
1. Review other proposals and provide feedback.
1. Represent the needs of the community.
1. Engage with the community in a professional and positive manner.
1. Encourage community members to express their opinion.

## Joining the Steering Committee:

### Eligibility:

1. Have a wide knowledge of Ansible and its related projects.
1. Active Contributions to the Ansible project.
1. Voicing out opinions whenever necessary.

### Process:

1. Any community member may nominate someone/themselves for committee membership at any time.
1. Only the present Steering committee members may vote on selecting a new member.
1. Nominees must receive a majority vote from the present members to be added to the Steering Committee.

## Leaving the Steering Committee:

Steering Committee members can resign voluntarily or be removed by the rest of the Steering Committee under certain circumstances, see details below.

### Voluntarily Leaving the Steering Committee:

A Steering Committee member can resign. If they are not able to participate fully for any reason, they can notify the other members and step down.

Steering Committee members who resign and later become active again can rejoin the Steering Committee the following year by following the process for joining the Steering Committee.

In case of resignation, the member should create an issue in the community-topics repository to inform the community that they plan to step down, and when.

### Involuntarily Leaving the Steering Committee:

A Steering Committee member will be removed from the Committee if they:
1. Do not participate in community meetings for more than 3 months in a row.
1. Participate unreasonably irregularly (for example, once a month for several months). Unreasonability is defined by other steering committee members considering circumstances in each particular case.
1. Violate the Ansible Community Code of Conduct.

The removal process (in all cases except resignation) consists of the following steps:
1. Another committee member creates an issue under the community-topics repository.
1. The issue will be discussed in a community meeting.
1. The committee members vote on the issue.

## Members:

The initial Steering Committee members, selected based on their wide knowledge of and active contributions to the Ansible project, are:
1. Toshio Kuratomi (abadger1999)
1. Felix Fontein (felixfontein)
1. Tadej Borovšak (tadeboro)
1. James Cassell (cyberpear)
1. John Barker (gundalow)
1. Andrew Klychkov (andersson007_)
1. Alicia Cozine (acozine)
1. Sorin Sbarnea (zbr)
1. Jill Rouleau (jillr)
1. Brad Thornton (cidrblock)
1. Dylan Silva (thaumos)

## Chairperson:

Tadej Borovšak is elected as the chairperson for the year 2021-2022.

The chairperson election will happen once a year, say, before/after an Ansible fest.

The process of the election consist of the following steps:

- Interested members who wouldn’t mind to be a chairman will inform a person responsible for arranging the election about that.
- Conduct impersonalized voting somewhere.
- Announcement the result internally.
- In a community meeting, publicly announce the elected candidate.