Requesting Steering (Working Group) - ARCHIVED

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One of the formally-defined responsibilities of each Program's PMC is to provide technical guidance to working groups, either:

upon request; or
when a working group appears to be faltering or diverging from the scope of the Program

In order to support the second scenario and to assist in providing visibility to the Foundation's board, working groups are required to report on their current status and recent operations when requested to do so by the PMC.

Contacting a PMC

If a working group wishes to contact the PMC for proactive steering, they should do so via the relevant /wiki/spaces/FINOS/pages/77955298, or have their chair raise the issue verbally at the next PMC meeting.

Private or Sensitive Information

In the rare event that a working group wishes to discuss private or sensitive matters with the PMC, they should use the PMC's private mailing list. Alternatively, you can also contact an individual PMC member directly and ask them to represent the matter in person to the PMC (such matters will not be recorded in the PMC's meeting minutes).

Please note that the PMCs is not responsible for handling Community Code of Conduct violations - please see that page for details on reporting such incidents.

Because amended POPs may remove the requirement that all Working Group Chairs sit on that Program's PMC, it may only be possible to send an email to the PMC mailing list in those Programs that have amended POPs.

Before participating in a Program, you should always check whether it has an amended POP, and if so, review it carefully to make sure you're comfortable with the changes it has introduced.