Elect / Nominate representative(s) to the OpenJS Foundation CPC

[jorydotcom]

Context

As part of the new OpenJS Foundation's bylaws, the Cross Project Council (CPC) has been chartered to serve as the primary governing body for programs and regular support of Foundation projects. For example, it will be responsible for things like infrastructure, travel assistance, CoC support, accepting new projects into the foundation, and mentorship programs to name a few. It will also be responsible for electing board representative(s) to the OpenJS Foundation board of directors.

Any interested person from our project communities can attend CPC meetings and volunteer to participate in tasks. For most programs, the CPC is expected to operate on the consensus of OpenJS Foundation project members. Issues that require a vote - namely the election of Board representatives and accepting a new project - will be memorialized by a voting CPC membership comprised of up to 2 representatives from Impact level projects and 2 representatives from Growth and At-Large stages.

If you'd like more info/context on the governance of the OpenJS Foundation, please let me know or follow this repo. The main point I hope you take away is that the foundation is to be run by and for the projects, and to do that we need participants from the project community.

Request

As an Impact level project, webpack is expected to send up to two formal representatives to participate in CPC meetings in a voting capacity. We (the bootstrap CPC group) would like you to make this selection by May 1. You can do that in whatever fashion you would like (projects retain their own internal governance).

We anticipate having our first 'official' CPC meeting on May 30 or 31 at the Collaborator Summit in Berlin (sidebar, you should come!). In the interim, we would love for webpack project members to participate in the Bootstrap CPC meetings which are currently held on Mondays (watch this repo for meeting details).

If this is not the correct forum to raise this, please let me know and I will close the issue and post it in the preferred channel. Note that I'm posting essentially the same message to all OpenJS Foundation project repos, because I want to get the word out and make sure we all have the same information.

your pal,
Jory

[montogeek]

cc @TheLarkInn @sokra

[EugeneHlushko]

Was under impression we are already on open governance model

[jorydotcom]

@EugeneHlushko to clarify, this does not affect the way the project is governed now. This is about how the webpack community decides to participate in the OpenJS Foundation along with the other projects. The Foundation will be embarking on a lot of programs and projects that will benefit projects like webpack, and we want to make sure those things are run by and for the projects 😄

[EugeneHlushko]

Ah, sounds intense and exciting 👍 ty for clarification @jorydotcom

[jorydotcom]

Hi webpack team (cc @TheLarkInn & @sokra)! Any updates to share here? As an FYI, if you don't think this is something webpack wants to commit to doing as an Impact project, we can always change status to At Large or Growth which do not have the same expectations for participation. LMK what you're thinking, if you want to chat sometime.

[TheLarkInn]

Hey there! We'll meet about this and determine (up to 2) representatives. Where should we send our official response to @jorydotcom?

[jorydotcom]

Thank you @TheLarkInn! You can either let me know on this thread or post your reps to openjs-foundation/cross-project-council#152

[jeremenichelli]

@jorydotcom is it safe to close this issue now?

PS: Thanks a lot for reaching out to the team about this ❤️

[EugeneHlushko]

closing due to resolution