Document CoC Team selection process

[tobie]

The CoC Team Charter is voluntarily non-prescriptive when it comes to selecting CoC Team members.

Our plan, discussed in the working session of April 23, is to document a process here as we run the first selection and formalize for next year.

Ideally it's lightweight, and close to other election mechanisms.

Consensus in the work session was to make it consensus-driven rather than an election process (this echoes -1 being a a blocker expressed in prior issues opened on the topic).

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1. Open an issue to call for self nomination (nominees should clarify whether they want to be primary, secondary, or both, and confirm that they meet the elgibility requirements) (See Selection of new Code of Conduct Team Community Members #1298)

[tobie]

Following our private session to nominate CoC Community team members it became apparent that we needed to figure out the selection process before moving forward with the selection itself.

[darcyclarke]

@tobie On that note, one thing we should consider (if not already accounted for) is project representation. Given there are only 3 appointments to the CoC Team it would be good to ensure that one project does not represent more then 1 position on that team (excluding alternates). I think adding this stipulation would ensure we don't end up with homogeneous perspectives at multiple levels of governance.

[tobie]

That's a good point, @darcyclarke, slightly tangential to this issue, however. Opened a PR addressing it here: #1318.

[joesepi]

Meeting notes:

• Private session two weeks ago wanting to choose team members but had issues to work through still
• Working session last week revealed that the process was not broken but the decision/selection is particularly difficult for private reasons.
• Will work on this more today in private session today

[tobie]

CPC call discussion:

• loose agreement that we'd document a lightweight selection process through a PR

[tobie]

Note: don't forget to include updating membership to the [email protected] mailing list in the process.

[tobie]

CPC call: this is now waiting on a pull request. Alternatively this could be worked on during a working session.

This also needs to be added to the election calendar.

[tobie]

Notes from today's CPC call:

• Working session
• Would want to leverage existing election processes as much as possible here as this has proven very effective so far

[tobie]

Notes from today's CPC call:

• Merge Document CoC Member selection #1373
• Don’t close the issue yet; get input from @bensternthal on leveraging existing infra + process of CPC/baord elections