career-ops is now a GitHub organization

[santifer]

career-ops has moved from my personal account to a GitHub organization. Same project, same MIT license, same local-first philosophy, now with a home that matches how this community actually works.

What changes for you: nothing you have to do

• git clone and your existing remotes keep working: GitHub redirects the old path.
• Installing is unchanged: the npm package remains @santifer/career-ops.
• Stars, forks, issues, PRs and releases moved with the repository, history intact.

If you have 3 or more merged PRs: you have an invitation

That's the whole criterion: no votes, no nominations, no application, and it's retroactive: it applies whether your last PR was yesterday or in April. The census is a script, and scripts miss things: if you have 3+ merged PRs and no invitation yet, say so in this thread and it gets fixed, no questions asked. Check your email or https://github.com/career-ops-hq

Accepting adds you to the contributors team. Membership is private by default: make it public from the People page if you want it on your profile.

The ladder

Documented in GOVERNANCE.md, every step earned in the open:

team	how it's earned
contributors	3+ merged PRs, retroactive
triagers	by invitation: sustained contribution + understanding of the project's architecture (triage permissions)
reviewers	by invitation: quality merges + helpful reviews of others' work (triage permissions; a maintainer merges)
maintainers	by invitation: sustained contribution + alignment with the project's values (merge rights)

The teams above contributors are being seeded from the people who have been doing that work all along: those conversations are happening individually, the same way the work happened: one PR at a time.

Thank you for building this. Let's build together.

— Santiago Fernández de Valderrama Aparicio

Updated on 2 October 2026: the ladder above now matches GOVERNANCE.md, the one place it is written down. The org criterion (3+ merged PRs) has not changed.

[luochen211]

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