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+# OpenEXR Project Governance
+
+The OpenEXR project is owned by the Academy Software Foundation and is governed by its Committers, including a Technical
+Steering Committee (TSC) which is responsible for high-level guidance of the
+project.
+
+## Contributors
+
+The OpenEXR project grows and thrives from assistance from Contributors.
+Contributors include anyone in the community that contributes code,
+documentation, or other technical artifacts that have been incorporated into the
+projects repository.
+
+## Committers
+
+The OpenEXR GitHub repository is maintained by OpenEXR Committers. Committers
+are Contributors who have earned the ability to modify source code,
+documentation, or other technical artifacts to the project. Upon becoming
+Committers, they become members of the OpenEXR leadership team.
+
+Their privileges include, but are not limited to:
+
+* Commit access to the OpenEXR repository
+* Moderator status on all communication channels
+
+### Committer Activities
+
+Typical activities of a Committer include:
+
+* Helping users and novice contributors
+* Ensuring a response to questions posted to the openexr-dev alias
+* Contributing code and documentation changes that improve the project
+* Reviewing and commenting on issues and pull requests
+* Participation in working groups
+* Merging pull requests
+
+The TSC periodically reviews the Committer list to identify inactive Committers.
+Past Committers are typically given Emeritus status. Emeriti may request that
+the TSC restore them to active Committer status.
+
+### Committer Nominations
+
+Any existing Committer can nominate an individual making significant and
+valuable contributions to the OpenEXR project to become a new Committer.
+
+To nominate a new Committer, open an issue in the OpenEXR repository, with a
+summary of the nominee's contributions.
+
+If there are no objections raised by any Committers two weeks after the issue is
+opened, the nomination will be considered as accepted. Should there be any
+objections against the nomination, the TSC is responsible for working with the
+individuals involved and finding a resolution. The nomination must be approved
+by the TSC, which is assumed when there are no objections from any TSC members.
+
+Prior to the public nomination, the Committer initiating it may seek feedback
+from other Committers in private channels and work with the nominee to improve
+the nominee's contribution profile, in order to make the nomination as
+frictionless as possible.
+
+If individuals making valuable contributions do not believe they have been
+considered for a nomination, they may log an issue or contact a Committer
+directly.
+
+## Technical Steering Committee
+
+A subset of the Committers forms the Technical Steering Committee (TSC), which
+has final authority over this project. As defined in the project charter, TSC
+responsibilities include, but are not limited to:
+
+* Coordinating technical direction of the Project
+* Project governance and process (including this policy)
+* Contribution policy
+* GitHub repository hosting
+* Conduct guidelines
+* Maintaining the list of additional Committers
+* Appointing representatives to work with other open source or open standards
+communities
+* Discussions, seeking consensus, and where necessary, voting on technical
+matters relating to the code base that affect multiple projects
+* Coordinating any marketing, events, or communications regarding the project
+
+The TSC has a Chair, who acts as the project manager, organizing meetings and
+providing oversight to project administration. The Chair is elected by the TSC.
+The Chair also serves as the OpenEXR representative on the Academy Software Foundation (ASWF) Technical
+Advisory Council (TAC). The chair represents the
+project at all ASWF TAC meetings.
+
+### TSC Leaders
+
+* Chair: Cary Phillips
+
+### TSC Members
+
+* Cary Phillips - Industrial Light & Magic
+* Rod Bogart - Epic Games
+* Larry Gritz - Sony Pictures ImageWorks
+* Peter Hillman - Weta Digital, Ltd.
+* Kimball Thurston - Weta Digital, Ltd.
+* Nick Porcino - Oculus
+* Christina Templaar-Leitz - Epic Games
+* John Mertic - The Linux Foundation
+
+### TSC Meetings
+
+The TSC meets each Thursday at 1pm Pacific Time via Zoom video conference. 
+TSC meetings are open to the public, https://zoom.us/j/8362240307. 
+The TSC Chair moderates the meeting, or appoints another TSC member to moderate in his or her absence.
+
+Items are added to the TSC agenda which are considered contentious or are
+modifications of governance, contribution policy, TSC membership, or release
+process, in addition to topics involving the high-level technical direction of
+the project.
+
+The intention of the agenda is not to approve or review all patches. That should
+happen continuously on GitHub and be handled by the larger group of Committers.
+
+Any community member or Contributor can ask that something be reviewed by the
+TSC at the meeting by logging a GitHub issue. Any Committer, TSC member, or the meeting chair
+can bring the issue to the TSC's attention by applying the `tsc-review` label.
+
+Prior to each TSC meeting, the meeting chair will share the agenda with members
+of the TSC. TSC members can also add items to the agenda at the beginning of
+each meeting. The meeting chair and the TSC cannot veto or remove items.
+
+The TSC may invite additional persons to participate in a non-voting capacity.
+
+The meeting chair is responsible for archiving the minutes, stored at 
+https://github.com/openexr/openexr/tree/master/aswf-tsc/meetings.
+
+Due to the challenges of scheduling a global meeting with participants in
+several time zones, the TSC will seek to resolve as many agenda items as
+possible outside of meetings on the public mailing list.
+
+### TSC Nomination
+
+Any proposal for additional members of the TSC may be submitted by Committers
+and/or TSC members by opening an issue outlining their case. Formal consensus
+should be reached by the existing TSC members. No objections raised by any TSC
+members two weeks after the issue is opened does not imply acceptance, if
+general consensus cannot be reached by this time a formal vote is required.
+
+Should there be any objections against the nomination, the TSC is responsible
+for working with the individuals involved and finding a resolution.
+
+### TSC Succession
+
+A voting member of the TSC may nominate a successor in the event that such
+voting member decides to leave the TSC, and the TSC, including the departing
+member, shall confirm or reject such nomination by a vote.
+
+In the event that the departing member’s nomination for successor is rejected by
+vote of the TSC, the departing member shall be entitled to continue nominating
+successors until one such successor is confirmed by vote of the TSC. If the
+departing member fails or is unable to nominate a successor, the TSC may
+nominate one on the departing member’s behalf.