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update governance
Addresses the concerns about recurrent contributors being recognized publicly that were mentioned in slack and in the monthly meeting Adds Ben and Reshama who were accepted recently to the list of core contributors Adds a note on recurrent contributor without nomination membership.
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GOVERNANCE.md

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[pymc-devs GitHub organization](https://github.com/pymc-devs). Examples of
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Project Software include the PyMC library and its documentation, etc.
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The Services run by The Project consist of public websites and web-services
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that are hosted at [http://docs.pymc.io](https://docs.pymc.io)
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that are hosted at [http://www.pymc.io](https://www.pymc.io) and subdomains.
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The Project is developed by a team of distributed developers, called
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Contributors. Contributors are individuals who have contributed code,
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documentation, designs or other work to one or more Project repositories,
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or who have done significant work to empower the Community,
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participating on [Discourse](https://discourse.pymc.io),
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organizing [PyMCon](https://pymcon.com) or helped on other platforms and events.
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Anyone can be a Contributor.
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**Anyone can be a Contributor.**
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Contributors can be affiliated with any legal entity or none.
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The foundation of Project participation is openness and transparency.
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could, but rarely chose to, override the Core Developers and make a final
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While this approach has served us well, as the Project grows and faces more
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legal and financial decisions and interacts with other institutions, we see a
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While this approach served us well, as the Project grew and faced more
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legal and financial decisions and interacted with other institutions, we saw a
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need for a more formal governance and organization model.
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We view this governance model as the formalization of what we are already doing,
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We view this governance model as the formalization of what we were already doing,
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rather than a change in direction.
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## Community and Team Architecture
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* Steering Council
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Recurring Contributors comprise what we understand as the PyMC Team.
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Core Contributors comprise what we understand as the PyMC Team.
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The Team will generally act as a single unit, except for some specific
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questions where dedicated teams will prevail.
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The PyMC project currently has Developer, Documentation and Community teams.
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<img src="docs/community_diagram.png" alt="community diagram" width="600" height="400">
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Anyone working with The Project has the responsibility to personally uphold
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the Code of Conduct. Recurrent Contributors have the additional responsibility
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the Code of Conduct. Core Contributors have the additional responsibility
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of _enforcing_ the Code of Conduct to maintain a safe community.
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## Recurring Contributors
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Interns and contractors are added to the team as Recurrent Contributors.
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We consider the selection/hiring process to replace the nomination process.
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#### Current Recurring Contributors
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Contributors who are also part of a dedicated team or are institutional
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contributors will have so indicated after their name.
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Dedicated teams only cover a small part of the work needed to
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get the project going, tasks like fundraising, outreach and marketing,
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or organizing events for example don't (yet) have a dedicated team.
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Contributors don't need to be part of any dedicated team.
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* Abhipsha Das (docs)
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* Benjamin Vincent (docs - PyMC Labs)
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* Jon Sedar
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* Kaustubh Chaudhari (dev)
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* Larry Dong (dev)
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* Lorenzo Toniazzi (docs)
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* Martin Ingram (community)
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* Olga Khan (docs)
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* Peadar Coyle
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* Raul Maldonado (docs)
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This applies to Google summer of code interns or Google season of
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docs contractors, but also to interns and contractors hired by
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tier 1 Institutional Partners who work mostly on PyMC.
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## Core Contributors
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Core Contributors are those individuals entrusted with the development and
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Dedicated teams only cover a small part of the work needed to
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or organizing events for example don't (yet) have a dedicated team.
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get the project going, tasks like fundraising, outreach or marketing
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for example don't (yet) have a dedicated team.
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* Adrian Seyboldt (dev - PyMC Labs)
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* Alex Andorra (dev - PyMC Labs)
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* Austin Rochford
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* Benjamin Vincent (docs - PyMC Labs)
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* Bill Engels (dev)
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* Brandon T. Willard (dev)
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* Chris Fonnesbeck (dev, docs)
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* Oriol Abril-Pla (docs, community)
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* Osvaldo Martin (dev, docs)
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* Ravin Kumar (dev, community, docs)
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* Reshama Shaikh (community - PyMC Labs)
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* Ricardo Vieira (dev, community)
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* Robert P. Goldman (dev)
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* Sayam Kumar (dev, docs)

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