Skip to content

Flesh out WG chairs expectations in the bylaws #2848

New issue

Have a question about this project? Sign up for a free GitHub account to open an issue and contact its maintainers and the community.

Sign up for GitHub

By clicking “Sign up for GitHub”, you agree to our terms of service and privacy statement. We’ll occasionally send you account related emails.

Already on GitHub? Sign in to your account

Merged
merged 2 commits into from
Aug 4, 2025
Merged

Flesh out WG chairs expectations in the bylaws #2848

Show file tree
Hide file tree
Changes from all commits
Commits
Show all changes
2 commits
Select commit Hold shift + click to select a range
de38685
Flesh out WG chairs expectations in the bylaws
HarHarLinks Jul 31, 2025
0f378ac
Update the governing board bylaws version
HarHarLinks Jul 31, 2025
File filter

Filter by extension

Filter by extension
Conversations
Failed to load comments.
Loading
Jump to
Jump to file
Failed to load files.
Loading
Diff view
Diff view
23 changes: 16 additions & 7 deletions content/foundation/governing-board/bylaws/02-bylaws.md
View file
Open in desktop
Original file line number Diff line number Diff line change
Expand Up @@ -168,13 +168,22 @@ Group to define this for themselves, providing:

The role of (Vice) Chair in a Working Group is not expected to be onerous. The
Board Sponsor will help with necessary process-related work such as reporting
to the Committee Chair, and (if needed) drafting minutes. Most work in a
Working Group is consensus driven, and in any case voting is difficult because
of the fluid nature of the membership.

Where a consensus cannot be reached, the Chair can ask the Board Sponsor to
help resolve the issue - likely by asking the Committee to decide on the
direction needed.
to the Committee Chair, and (if needed) drafting minutes. The role of a Chair
is a process role: it does not give the Chair special powers, but the
responsibility to ensure the work of the Working Group is organized well.

The Chair is responsible that the Working Group sticks to the charter, that
regular meetings are set up and minutes of them kept, and that reports are given
to the sponsor. The goal is to keep the Working Group active, drive consensus,
and thus enable steady progress. A Working Group may name a Vice Chair in order
to have someone to share this responsibility. Having this responsibility does
not mean the Chair is expected to do all these tasks themselves, but only that
they get done reliably - work can be delegated to any member.

Most work in a Working Group is consensus driven, and in any case voting is
difficult because of the fluid nature of the membership. Where a consensus
cannot be reached, the Chair can ask the Board Sponsor to help resolve the
issue - likely by asking the Committee to decide on the direction needed.

## 6. Chair & Vice Chair of the Governing Board

Expand Down
4 changes: 2 additions & 2 deletions content/foundation/governing-board/index.md
View file
Open in desktop
Original file line number Diff line number Diff line change
Expand Up @@ -133,8 +133,8 @@ processes. The content is divided into the following sections:

The Governance Committee is responsible for adapting these documents as needed,
with the exception of the TOR, which requires formal amendment from the
Guardians. These documents are currently v1.0.1 and were last modified on
2025-05-21. The canonical versions of the bylaws and expectations, social contract,
Guardians. These documents are currently v1.1.0 and were last modified on
2025-07-31. The canonical versions of the bylaws and expectations, social contract,
and processes are the markdown sources available through the matrix
[website's git repo](https://github.com/matrix-org/matrix.org/tree/main/content/foundation/governing-board/bylaws).

Expand Down