Adopt Governance model for the FINOS Financial Objects project

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Background

• This issue stems from a discussion between participants at the February 22nd Product Control Common Template meeting, and the corresponding action item to define a Governance model to approve proposed changes to the Product Control Common Template.
• Product Common Template is a work stream of the recently revamped Financial Objects project, which itself might want to adopt a new governance that best suits its new scope, participants and work streams.
• The intent in the FINOS governance is for Projects to be able to amend their own governance (within the boundaries of FINOS policies), to allow flexibility.

Proposal

Financial Objects project to adopt an overarching governance, as well as one that governs individual existing and future work streams under the Financial Objects project (e.g. Product Control Common template. The new Governance can be adopted by consensus or simple majority vote of the current project maintainers

The recommendation is to start from the existing FINOS provided governance templates and amend as needed. The existing options are:

• the FINOS Software project governance model, which is simple but code centric
• the FINOS Standards project governance model, which is standard centric

A potential third, and intermediate approach that the Linux Foundation is standardizing on and that FINOS is also considering is the Community Specification Contribution Policy.

Call to Action

Please review:

1. The FINOS Software project governance model
2. The FINOS Standards project governance model - standard centric
3. The Community Specification Contribution Policy

and provide feedback in the comments section below by {3/15/2021}. If you'd rather see FINOS put forward a proposed governance model, please provide that feedback as well.

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The FINOS Governing board approved the conversion of the Financial Objects project into a Financial Objects Special Interest Group in April 2021. For FINOS Special Interest Group governance, see https://github.com/finos/community/tree/master/governance#special-interest-groups