Updated language around contribution by maintainers.

Removed language about the ecoinformatics charter.

README.md

@@ -74,17 +74,17 @@ projects and methods, structural information about the data, and much more.
 
 ## About the EML Project
 
-The EML project is an open source, community oriented project dedicated to providing a high-quality metadata specification for describing data relevant to the ecological discipline. The project is completely comprised of [voluntary project members](docs/contributors.md) who donate their time and experience in order to advance information management for ecology. Project decisions are made by consensus according to the voting procedures described in the [ecoinformatics.org Charter](http://www.ecoinformatics.org/charter.html).
+The EML project is an open source, community oriented project dedicated to providing a high-quality metadata specification for describing data relevant to diverse disciplines that involve observational research like ecology, earth, and environmental science. The specification is maintained by [voluntary project members](docs/contributors.md) who donate their time and experience in order to advance information management for ecology. Project decisions are made by consensus of the current maintainers on the project.
 
-We welcome contributions to this work in any form. Individuals who invest substantial amounts of time and make valuable contributions to the development and maintenance of EML (in the opinion of current project members) will be invited to become EML project members according to the rules set forth in the [ecoinformatics.org Charter](http://www.ecoinformatics.org/charter.html). Contributions can take many forms, including the development of the EML schemas, writing documentation, and helping with maintenance, among others.
+We welcome contributions to this work in any form. Individuals who invest substantial amounts of time and make valuable contributions to the development and maintenance of EML (in the opinion of current project maintainers) will be invited to become EML project maintainers. Contributions can take many forms, including the development of the EML schemas, writing documentation, and helping with maintenance, among others.
 
 ## Contributing
 
-Developers may be interested in browsing the [source code repository](https://github.com/NCEAS/eml/) that we use in developing EML. Starting with EML 2.1.1, the master branch reflects the current stable release of EML. Developmet occurs in development branches (e.g., BRANCH_EML_2_2), which allows experimental additions as they are being proposed by the community.  This always contains the most recent development version of EML, and therefore may be in flux, or otherwise broken. It is unlikely that it will contain the same files that are in the current release. Development branches are virtually guaranteed to change before they are released, and so they should not be used in production environments. Use development branches at your own risk for testing.  Write access to this repository is reserved for current project maintainers. Please submit contributions as pull requests. We welcome contributions to this work in any form.  Contributions can take many forms, including the development of the EML schema, writing documentation, and helping with maintenance, among others. Non-project members can contribute by submitting their feedback, revisions, fixes, code, or any other contribution through pull requests at GitHub. Discussion of issues occurs on the [eml-dev@ecoinformatics.org](https://groups.google.com/a/ecoinformatics.org/forum/#!forum/ecoinfoeml-dev) mailing list, or through the [EML Issue Tracking system](http://github.com/NCEAS/eml/issues). The preferred way to submit problems with EML or feature requests is the issue tracking system.
+Developers may be interested in browsing the [source code repository](https://github.com/NCEAS/eml/) that we use in developing EML. Starting with EML 2.1.1, the master branch reflects the current stable release of EML. Development occurs in development branches (e.g., BRANCH_EML_2_2), which allows experimental additions as they are being proposed by the community.  This always contains the most recent development version of EML, and therefore may be in flux, or otherwise broken. It is unlikely that it will contain the same files that are in the current release. Development branches are virtually guaranteed to change before they are released, and so they should not be used in production environments. Use development branches at your own risk for testing.  Write access to this repository is reserved for current project maintainers. Please submit contributions as pull requests. We welcome contributions to this work in any form.  Contributions can take many forms, including the development of the EML schema, writing documentation, and helping with maintenance, among others. Non-project members can contribute by submitting their feedback, revisions, fixes, code, or any other contribution through pull requests at GitHub. Discussion of issues occurs on the [Slack channel](https://slack.nceas.ucsb.edu), or through the [EML Issue Tracking system](http://github.com/NCEAS/eml/issues). The preferred way to submit problems with EML or feature requests is the issue tracking system.
 
 ## History
 
-EML was originally developed by Matthew Jones at NCEAS based on work done by the [ESA Committee on the Future of Long-Term Ecological Data](https://web.archive.org/web/20040213204322/http://esa.sdsc.edu/FLED/FLED.html) and on a related paper on ecological metadata by Michener et al. (see Michener, William K., et al., 1997. Ecological Applications, "Nongeospatial metadata for the ecological sciences" Vol 7(1). pp. 330-342.).  Version 1.0 was released at NCEAS in 1997 and used internally, with further internal releases of versions 1.2, 1.3, and 1.4, all of which followed the FLED recommendations closely in its content implementation. Version 2 became a community-maintained, open specification. Substantial modifications for EML 2.x came from experience using the earlier specification at NCEAS and from feedback from the ecological community, particularly information managers from the Long Term Ecological Research Network. Versions 2.1 and 2.2 introduce significant new features like internationalization, semantic annotations, and support for data papers.
+EML was originally developed by Matthew Jones at NCEAS based on a report by the [ESA Committee on the Future of Long-Term Ecological Data](https://web.archive.org/web/20040213204322/http://esa.sdsc.edu/FLED/FLED.html) and on a related paper on ecological metadata by Michener et al. (see Michener, William K., et al., 1997. Ecological Applications, "Nongeospatial metadata for the ecological sciences" Vol 7(1). pp. 330-342.).  Version 1.0 was released at NCEAS in 1997 and used internally, with further internal releases of versions 1.2, 1.3, and 1.4, all of which followed the FLED recommendations closely in its content implementation. Version 2 became a community-maintained, open specification. Substantial modifications for EML 2.x came from experience using the earlier specification at NCEAS and from feedback from the ecological community, particularly information managers from the Long Term Ecological Research Network. Versions 2.1 and 2.2 introduce significant new features like internationalization, semantic annotations, and support for data papers.
 
 ## Older versions (deprecated)
 

docs/eml-contributors.md

@@ -1,29 +1,20 @@
 # Contributors
 
-The EML project is an open source, community oriented project
-dedicated to providing a high-quality metadata specification
-for describing data relevant to the ecological discipline.
-The project is completely comprised of voluntary project
-members who donate their time and experience in order to advance
-information management for ecology. Project decisions are made by
-concensus according to the voting procedures described in the 
-[ecoinformatics.org Charter](http://www.ecoinformatics.org/charter.html).
+The EML project is an open source, community oriented project dedicated to providing a high-quality metadata specification for describing data relevant to diverse disciplines that involve observational research like ecology, earth, and environmental science. The specification is maintained by [voluntary project members](docs/contributors.md) who donate their time and experience in order to advance information management for ecology. Project decisions are made by consensus of the current maintainers on the project.
 
 We welcome contributions to this work in any form.  Individuals
 who invest substantial amounts of time and make valuable
 contributions to the development and maintenance of EML (in the
-opinion of current project members) will be invited to become
-EML project members according to the rules set forth in the <a
-href="http://www.ecoinformatics.org/charter.html">ecoinformatics.org
-Charter</a>. Contributions can take many forms, including the
+opinion of current project maintainers) will be invited to become
+EML project maintainers. Contributions can take many forms, including the
 development of the EML schemas, writing documentation, and helping
 with maintenance, among others.
 
 Write access to the EML source code repository is reserved for
-EML project members. Contributions should be submitted as pull
+EML project maintainers. Contributions should be submitted as pull
 requests, and will be reviewed and merged by an EML project member.
 
-## Current contributors
+## Current maintainers
 
 Name | Organization | Email | ORCID
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