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• Working Group Responsibilities
  • How to setup an effective Working Group
    
    • Face-to-face / sync vs offline / async
  • Content management best practices
    • Confluence
    • Emailing documents
  • Meeting best practices
    • Schedule
    • Agendas required in advance (Anti-Trust Policy link)

Meetings and Decision Making

Working Group meetings are scheduled and run by the group's chair (or any participant they nominate if they are temporarily unavailable). Working Groups make decisions using the Foundation's Decision Making mechanism.

Membership

After a Working Group is approved by the Program's PMC, the Working Group will determine its own criteria for admitting new members. Admissions need not be approved by the PMC, but a roster must be maintained and provided to the PMC upon request.

Reporting and Deliverables

Working Groups may be asked to report periodically to the PMC, to support the PMC's own board reporting requirements.

Coordination with Projects

Working Groups are expected to coordinate with Projects as needed to ensure that Projects' work is aligned with Working Group deliverables (e.g. to ensure correct implementation of a standard, that best practices have been adhered to, etc.).

Technical Infrastructure

Working Groups are encouraged to use their wiki space to organize and to publish meeting minutes, work product, etc.  The Foundation's Jira infrastructure is also available to Working Groups who wish to track their work more systematically.To date, the following working-group-specific processes have been defined and documented: