Module maintainers who have an interest in the greater direction of the project may have their status promoted to that of a Project Management Committee Member. This committee is the official managing body of the Project and is responsible for setting overall project direction. The PMC makes all decisions that cannot be resolved by module maintainers. The PMC strives to make as few technical decisions as possible, preferring to leave technical decisions to module maintainers and a general consensus process.

The GeoTools Project Management Committee.

The GeoTools PMC is the formal "Project Steering Committee" that reports to the Open Source Geospatial Foundation on behalf of the library.

Responsibilities

PMC members:

• Must attend weekly IRCs regularly and give advance notice when they cannot.
• Should maintain a released module.
• Must be willing to do whatever dirty work is necessary to keep the project moving forward.
  • getting releases out on time (within a week of a request, or according to a schedule)
  • making a representative available to the OSGeo foundation

Nominations

In order to become a Member, someone on the PMC must nominate the Committer. The individual may then be approved with a 75% majority of the PMC.

Stepping Down

If you are unable to maintain your responsibilities as a PMC member, please feel free to step down at any time. Thank you so much for your contributions.

If we cannot find you (especially when voting on proposals) it becomes very difficult to keep the project functioning. After two months time we will send out a search party and nominate your replacement.

Honoured Founder

We would like to thank the founder of the GeoTools library:

• James Macgill