Organization

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Last updated: Aug 24, 2006Version comment

ops4j.org is a non-registered, umbrella organization for individuals who are interested in Open Participation Software and the Java programming platform.

Executive

The Executive consists of at least 2, but not more than 10, individuals that are trusted and elected by the Stakeholders at least every 2 years and not more often than once a year. The Executive is responsible for the sensitive data in the infrastructure, including but not limited to passwords, certificates, signatories and domain adminstration. The Executive is also overseeing that users follows rules, processes and procedures, and retain the absolute power to disable such user without further notice if necessary.

The Executive is also the last instance to resolve disputes, and failure to abide by the Executive decision may lead to exclusion, by the discretion of the Executive.

The current list of Executive members can be found in the Executive project.

Stakeholders

Individuals, companies and other organizations that has a stake in OPS4J can optionally be stakeholders of this organization. Stake is defined to be one of the following;

  • Developer in projects/products with commits no more than 6 months old.
  • User of any of the OPS4J projects or products for anything other than evaluation and/or experimentation.
  • Donor of resources (services, products, bandwidth, man-hours, cash) to OPS4J, exceeding $1000 a year.

Subscription to the stakeholder@ mailing list should be followed by a short presentation of the stakeholder and how he/she/it participates in OPS4J.

Developers

Individuals who are doing commits to the OPS4J source repository are called developers. Companies can not be developers. Developers have commit rights to the source repository, and those rights are self-managed. No formal invitation, nor approval process exist. Developers can only be excluded, if rules and procedures are not followed. If such offense is minor, the developer will be corrected in friendly manner, if it is apparent abuse, then the developer will be excluded by the Executive.

Individuals becomes developers by self-managed, opt-in process available on OPS4J website.

Users

Individuals, companies and organizations that are using any of the OPS4J output, be it experiments, projects, products or mailing list discussions.