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Resource Types: 📘 Guide  🖥️ Slide Deck  🎞️ Video  🧩 Quiz  🧠 Practice / Scenario

The formal and informal processes by which choices are proposed, discussed, refined, and approved within podling, PMC, and IPMC governance structures.

Guides

  • 📘 Community Governance - Documents governance and process topics that arise in incubation discussions, reflecting what participants question and reinforce in practice.

  • 📘 Governance in Practice - Shows how ASF values translate into day-to-day community decisions.

  • 📘 Incubator PMC Onboarding - Explains the IPMC’s oversight role and responsibilities for podlings.

  • 📘 Podling PPMC Onboarding - Guidance for PPMC members on managing community decisions and governance.

  • 📘 Proposal Discussions - Summarises themes that recur in proposal discussion threads—what reviewers ask proposers to clarify, and what factors are treated as relevant to proceeding toward a vote.

  • 📘 Using Emerging Technology - Guidance intended for Podling PPMCs on how projects should evaluate, adopt, and govern new tools, platforms, and workflows.

Slide Decks

  • 🖥️ Governance in Practice - Slide deck on how governance works in practice in Apache communities.

  • 🖥️ IPMC Onboarding - Slide deck on how the IPMC ensures project compliance and mentoring quality.

  • 🖥️ PPMC Onboarding - Slide deck on stewardship and governance responsibilities for podling PMCs.

Videos

  • 🎞️ Governance in Practice - Video illustrating transparency and inclusivity in Apache governance.

  • 🎞️ IPMC Onboarding - Video explaining IPMC review and decision processes.

  • 🎞️ PPMC Onboarding - Video on how podlings self-govern and grow into sustainable communities.