This repository contains the approved minutes of past meetings of the Open Source Robotics Alliance's Technical Governance Committee (TGC). For full details of the functioning of the TGC, see the OSRA Charter and the OSRA's Technical Governance Policies and Procedures. Quoting the P&P:
The TGC is responsible for overseeing the Project Management Committees, ensuring that each Project is managed appropriately with respect to the Project's goals and the OSRF's goals. In addition, the TGC is expected to undertake technical activities to improve the operation of all Projects.
The TGC typically meets once per month, although it may have additional meetings from time to time, and may also skip a month if an unavoidable conflict arises. (The P&P requires a meeting at least once every calendar quarter.) Minutes are taken of each meeting, and circulated to the members of the TGC for confirmation. These minutes are then approved in the next regular TGC meeting. Once minutes are approved, they are added to this repository for public record keeping.
The TGC's meetings operate following Robert's Rules of Order and the Chatham House Rule. This means that the minutes will not contain a detailed transcript of the meeting's conversations, nor will they state the individual opinions and positions of TGC members. The minutes are instead intended to be a record of what was discussed and what decisions were formally taken.
The following are the members of the TGC as of the most recent update to this README file.
- Addisu Taddese, Intrinsic (Gazebo Project Leader)
- Clara Berendsen, Ekumen (Infrastructure Project Representative)
- Daniel Gordon, Huawei (Gold Representative)
- David Lu!! (Supporting Individual Representative)
- Geoffrey Biggs, OSRF (TGC Chair)
- Hemal Shah, NVIDIA (Platinum Member Representative)
- Henkel Christian, Bosch (Gold Representative)
- Kat Scott, Intrinsic (Developer Relations Representative)
- Maria Carolina Vergo, ROS-Industrial (Silver Representative)
- Michael Carrol, Intrinsic (Interim ROS Project Leader)
- Michael Grey, Intrinsic (Open-RMF Project Leader)
- Michel Hidalgo, Ekumen (Silver Representative)
- Sathish Mani, Qualcomm Technologies (Platinum Member Representative)
- Steve Peters, Intrinsic (Gazebo Project Representative)
- Steven! Ragnarok, Intrinsic (Infrastructure Project Leader)
- Tully Foote, Intrinsic (Platinum Member Representative)
- Vanessa Yamzon Orsi, OSRF (Secretary)
- Vicky Brasseur (OSRA Open Governance Advisor)
- Yadunund Vijay, Intrinsic (Open-RMF Project Representative)
The members of the TGC provide their time freely for the good of the OSRA and all the projects it manages. However, their time is not unlimited. Please do not contact TGC members directly, except in line with the following.
- If you are a Supporting Individual Member of the OSRA, and wish to have a topic raised in the TGC, please contact the Supporting Individual Representative.
- If your employer is an organisation member (Gold, Silver, or Associate) in the OSRA, and you wish to have a topic raised in the TGC, please have your employer's OSRA Representative contact the representative(s) for your employer's membership class. Do not contact the TGC representative directly yourself unless you are the OSRA Representative for your employer.
Minutes of the Technical Governance Committee of the OSRA © 2024 by Open Source Robotics Foundation These minutes are provided publicly for reference by the communities for the open-source projects managed by the OSRA.