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1 | 1 | --- |
2 | 2 | title: Governance of the SCS community |
3 | 3 | type: Procedural |
4 | | -status: Stable |
5 | | -stabilized_at: 2025-01-16 |
| 4 | +status: Draft |
| 5 | +replaces: scs-0005-v1-project-governance.md |
6 | 6 | track: Global |
7 | 7 | description: | |
8 | 8 | SCS-0005 outlines the structure and governance of the SCS community by the SCS Project Board and how this is elected. |
@@ -81,6 +81,38 @@ within the last six weeks of the calendar year. |
81 | 81 | The _SCS Project Board_ contains five seats. One of these seats is filled by |
82 | 82 | the delegate of the _Forum SCS-Standards_. The other four seats are voted upon. |
83 | 83 |
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| 84 | +#### Conflict of Interest and Organizational Diversity |
| 85 | + |
| 86 | +To ensure balanced representation and avoid conflicts of interest, no more than one seat on the SCS Project |
| 87 | +Board elected by the community may be held by individuals affiliated with the same organization, company, |
| 88 | +or employer at any given time. This limitation applies only to the elected seats, not to the seat filled by |
| 89 | +the delegate of the Forum SCS-Standards. |
| 90 | + |
| 91 | +If two or more candidates from the same organization are among the top-ranked choices in an election: |
| 92 | + |
| 93 | +- Only the highest-ranked candidate from that organization will be elected. |
| 94 | +- The remaining seat(s) will be filled by the next highest-ranked candidate(s) from different organizations. |
| 95 | + |
| 96 | +If an existing board member changes their organizational affiliation during their term, resulting in multiple board |
| 97 | +members from the same organization, one of the affected members must resign their seat. The affected members may mutually |
| 98 | +agree on who will resign. If no agreement can be reached within 30 days of the affiliation change, the SCS Project Board |
| 99 | +will decide by majority vote which member shall retain their seat. A replacement will be determined according to the most |
| 100 | +recent election results, selecting the next eligible candidate from a different organization. |
| 101 | + |
| 102 | +#### Resignation |
| 103 | + |
| 104 | +Resignation can happen for several reasons: |
| 105 | + |
| 106 | +- Elected member may sustainably no longer be willing or able to serve on the project board. |
| 107 | +- Elected member needs to resign due to conflict of interest (see above for organizational diversity rules). |
| 108 | + |
| 109 | +When a board member resigns, the next eligible candidate from the last election will automatically join the board, |
| 110 | +if (s)he accepts it and does not conflict with the organizational diversity rules. In case no more candidates exist, |
| 111 | +the board will continue to exist with one person less. As soon as the board loses another member that can not be backfilled, |
| 112 | +an extraordinary election will be scheduled for the rest of the term. Resigned members are encouraged to suggest |
| 113 | +new candidates. The search for candidates should at least allow for two weeks and the election announced at least |
| 114 | +three weeks in advance of happening and run for a week. |
| 115 | + |
84 | 116 | ### Nominations |
85 | 117 |
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86 | 118 | Every person who is part of the Sovereign Cloud Stack GitHub organization can be |
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