If you are looking for an open source governance model, there are two resources to explore.
- Red Hat has published the Project and Community Governance Guidebook on GitHub. It covers things from roles of the participants, to how projects evolve (and governance should evolve with them), to policies and procedures.
- The FOSS Governance Collection just launched with a collection of governance docs on Zotero. It is a great place to go see real, live documents used by existing open source software projects. (If you work on an open source software project, or just notice that one is missing, please upload the governance docs!)
Don’t forget, a project’s governance needs to evolve as the project evolves.
Stormy Peters works at AWS on open source strategy and communities. She has spent her career at GitHub, Microsoft, Red Hat, Mozilla, and the GNOME Foundation building the programs and communities that help people be successful with open source software. She speaks regularly on open source, community strategy, and developer relations. Find her speaking history and past talks at stormyscorner.com/speaking.