The Planetary Software Organization promotes open source software in the planetary sciences by helping software creators and maintainers foster an open source community.
The Planetary Software Organization helps software creators grow and organize their community by providing a set of ready-to-use community guidelines, standards, and governance documents. The Planetary Software Organization also helps software maintainers manage the growth and evolution of their open source software by providing mentorship and suggestions.
Software creators and maintainers of a project seeking to join The Planetary Software Organization can do so by applying for membership through the application process defined in Lifecycle - Membership Application and Approval Process
Learn more about Top-Level Projects.
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Learn more about Top-Level Working Groups.
The Technical Steering Committee (TSC) is the governing body of the Planetary Software Organization, as described in its Charter.
The TSC primarily provides responsive input and organizational help to its Top-Level Projects and Working Groups, but is also available for consultation by other software projects or endeavors.
Other governing documents for the TSC are located in the root folder of this repository.
At any one time the Planetary Software projects have a number of strategic initiatives underway. The goal of the TSC is to have a champion for each of these initiatives and to support the initiatives in order to enable their success.
For more information look here: Strategic Initiatives
The Planetary Software TSC is chartered to oversee the technical governance of all Top Level Projects and Working Groups under the Planetary Software Organization. The TSC establishes the default governance, conduct, and licensing policies for all Top-Level Projects. Top-Level Projects and Working Groups have broad powers of self-governance.
To propose a change or addition to policies or processes that are intended to
cover all Top-Level Projects and Working Groups in the Planetary Software Organization,
a PR should be opened in the planetarysoftware/TSC repository.
In some cases, existing individual groups have the right to refuse changes to their charters. The TSC cannot mandate existing working groups alter their charters. If such a situation arises, the TSC may decide to revoke the group's charter.