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## Leadership
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The current maintainers of sfizz and the sfz tools organization are :
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- Paul "@paulfd" Ferrand
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- Jean-Pierre "@jpcima" Cimalando
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- Andrea "@redtide" Zanellato
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1. Sfizz does not follow a so-called "Benevolent Dictatorship for Life" model.
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Given the current size of the project, we believe an horizontal organization model to be the most relevant.
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2. Decisions regarding the technical part or the organizational part of the project are taken unanimously between the maintainers, where anyone can obviously abstain on any decision.
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3. We use Git as a global supporting platform for all decisions regarding the project, in the form of either pull requests or issues.
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This guarantees that a trace is kept for any contribution or change, and that users may interject and discuss on the subject at hand.
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## Donations and financial contributions
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In most jurisdictions, handling money requires bank accounts and identification as a physical person, or be incorporated as a non-profit or for-profit organization.
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We wish to:
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- keep things simple;
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- support the horizontal governance model we chose;
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- facilitate a transparent handling of the finances of the project from the maintainers;
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- abide by international laws for the transfer and handling of money in support of a project.
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Considering these constraints, we chose to host the SFZ tools organization within the [SFZTools Open Collective].
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The Open Collective fiscal host holds the money of unincorporated partnerships such as SFZ tools, providing legal channels and accounting, as well as tools to support a transparent budget management by members of the collective.
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We apply the following ruleset to handle the project's financial resources:
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1. As everything in SFZ tools, usage of the project's financial resources is subject to unanimous approval by all maintainers.
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2. The money is primarily directed towards expenses to support hosting the project---namely the website, and continuous testing and integration platforms.
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3. At any time, a maintainer may submit an expense request regarding the development of sfizz, for example but not limited to software resources, commercial SFZ libraries, or hardware devices.
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4. Every 3 months, during the months of March, June, September and December, the maintainers will gather in a budget meeting. The goal of the budget meeting decide in goodwill how to handle the money left over between contributors to the project.
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5. The partition should take into account individual technical and organizational contributions.
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The partition may also include other project that sfizz uses or wish to support.
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6. Any contributor may waive its own share to benefit either the project---pooling back resources for the next round---or the other contributors.
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7. Failure to reach a unanimous agreement will see the donations pooled back until the next budget meeting.
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8. The budget and expenses are kept public so all donators can keep track of how their donations are used.
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Note that the Open Collective platform charges a 10% administrative fee on all donations; subsequent fees may be charged by credit card or banks as the money is moved from the collective to individual accounts.
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## Changes to the governance model
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1. This document is subject to changes and version control.
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It is the role of maintainers to best adapt the governance model to the evolution of the project.
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2. Change to the governance model are mapped to changes to this document through the same decision process, e.g. a pull request with approval from all maintainers.
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3. Maintainers can be invited from regular contributors at any point in time; maintainers wishing to leave the governance of the project may inform the other maintainers.
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In both cases, updates to this document reflect the evolution of the governance team and rules.
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[Open-source Open Collective]: https://opencollective.com/sfztools
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