Community Committee

tl;dr The Community Committee will tackle tasks for Foundation efforts that fall outside of Node.js Core. This group is directly accountable to the Board. All new initiatives require Board approval.

The Community Committee reflects a formal voice for the community in the Node.js Foundation.

Community activities, such as ecosystem projects and events, fall outside of core projects that the TSC oversees. The Node.js Foundation is governed by its Board of Directors. There are number of outside organizations that have contributed to the growth of Node.js--NodeSchool, NodeBots, and thousands of individual meetups. This is not an exhaustive list. The champions of these organizations have very different skillsets, talents, and concerns. These community organizations of Node.js have long been important to the growth and vitality of the Node.js ecosystem and should be represented by the Community Committee (CC) which in turn can represent their interested and acquire support from the Node.js Foundation through its Board of Directors.

The CC is an automonous group operating adjacent to the TSC but is expected to collaborate with and be inspired by the lessons learned and wins celebrated in the many years of Node.js development. It is the hope that members of the TSC and CC will participate in each others' meetings to provide informed perspectives on the direction of the CC.

What is this repo?

This repository is for bootstrapping the Community Committee structure. In the future this may turn into a separate org, but for now things are organized entirely in this repository.

Contributing

code commits !== the only means to contributions.

One of the defining characteristics of this committee is to celebrate the work and acheivements of groups and individuals outside of traditional code projects.

Please contribute! The best way to do that right now is watching this repo, participating in the issues, and asking questions in TSC meetings as they help to advise the formation of this autonomous committee.

Meetings will be broadcast via Google Hangouts, will be announced ahead of time for access, and coordinated to optimize for contributor timezones.

Governance and Current Members

The Community Committee is an autonomous committee that collaborates alongside the TSC and whose governance is strongly influenced by the TSC's example. See GOVERNANCE.md to learn more about the group's evolving structure and CONTRIBUTING.md for guidance about the expectations for all contributors to this project.