How to found a Special Interest Group? (SIG)

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NeXt technical groups are hierarchical structured. The top-level NeXt technical group is the NeXt Technical Committee (TC); sub-layered are the NeXt Special Interest Groups (SIG) and Joint Task Forces (JTF). JFTs are established jointly with other nonprofit associations. All these NeXt technical groups develop open source reference designs, software, specifications and recommendations. Each NeXt group member may participate in any group. The groups decide on consensus, meaning they discuss until everybody agrees on the compromise.

Collect Ideas

Everybody can declare an interest at a webform https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1zqCUPqOK4Qq7HCKFiFz6BF-_OMG7VsAH03SG8P8pHpM/edit

Overview Ideas, Wishes and Priorities

We collect and sort all the ideas and present a Project Wish List with priorities and a voting feature at next-group.org/project-wish-list

Bring together Companies + Members with same interest

If there are three or more members with the same interest in a project we:

  • send an invitation to Members + companies declared an interest
  • publish a blog entry
  • book a meeting room - invitation
  • organize the meeting
  • write the meeting minutes

Request a new SIG

If there are min. three members during this meeting they can define the main facts of this new group and fill out this form - Request a new NXg Special Interest Group
attached PDF

Check and approval by the board

After providing the request of a new SIG to the Technical Director, the details of the SIG will be discussed in a meeting of the board. A short meeting to find a decision (Skype or Hangout)

Setup the environment

After the approval by the board, NeXt group will:

  • setup a Project page at NeXt-group.org with a description of this project
  • setup the repository at GitLab (if it is a software project)
  • setup a Contributor License Agreement for this SIG
  • request signatures of Contributor License Agreement from SIG Maintainer + SIG Main Contributor
  • link to project documentation
  • setup a mailing list for this project
  • setup a GitLab access for SIG Maintainer + SIG Main Contributor
  • inform everybody via newsletter about the new project  
  • Blog, Twitter  & Co
  • publish a press article about the new SIG

 

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