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This Issue tracks the status, progress, and decisions, related to #5
Based on a desire to support ecosystem critical projects rather than ingesting projects into the JSON Schema organization.

Current status: Stage 1 - Introduce and clarify the issue

What's required to progress to the next stage?

Multiple TSC members confirm that the opening discussion accurately represents the questions we are trying to answer and provides enough context for discussion. Anyone may suggest additions or changes.

This issue has been created to keep proper track of voting processes done by using the new Voting Process. In this case the goal was to decide on a potentially unethical sponsor. Any future voting process will run in this repository.

Referenced Issue: https://github.com/orgs/json-schema-org/discussions/580

Context

This issue is to ask the TSC for vote to approve/reject the new Swag budget detailed in this issue comment: json-schema-org/community#678 (comment).

The reason for a new budget is because after looking into the possible high delivery and customs costs we thought that using a global print-on-demand provider will help to keep those costs reasonably low and also remove the swag storage costs. As a result my final proposal is to move forward with this new approach focused on using Shopify and Printful as print-on-demand provider.

In addition will need to pay an Illustrator/Designer to produce all the designs as part of the shop setup. This cost is also included in the proposal.

In summary

A 8K budget was already approved here #4 , and this new call for votes is to make sure we have the support of the leading team for a 50% reduction the estimated costs but also pay an Illustrator/Designer to produce the swag designs.

(Discussed in Open Community Working Meeting 2024-04-08 json-schema-org/community#688)

See voting process here.

Related

Replaces #4

Reason for vote

I would like to propose adding two members to the TSC.
These individuals are well known to the JSON Schema community and are active participants.

Matthew Adams (@mwadams) and Juan Viotti (@jviotti).

I call for two votes from the TSC as per our governance process of decision making via vote, for which I will create two comments in this Issue, linked below.

Vote for Matthew Adams
Vote for Juan Viotti

About the individuals

Matthew Adams

Matthew Adams is the primary maintainer of Corvus.Net JSON Schema and Co-Founder of Endjin. Endjin is committed to open source and Matthew works on Corvus.JsonSchema and several other projects as part of his work. Endjin is also a .NET Foundation Coporate Sponsor.

Recently, Matthew is collaborating with JSON Schema in our participation of Google Summer of Code, by co-mentoring with @gregsdennis. (Although, this is happening through the Postman GSoC org). Very recently, Matthew published a series of articles on JSON Schema design patterns!

In chatting with Matthew on multiple locations, it's clear to me he has vast experience in programming, architecting, leadership, strategy, mediation, and processes. In addition, marketing and product/company positioning. I see matthew as someone who is wise and has a lot to offer.

Juan Viotti

Juan Viotti is the individual behind the groundbreaking award-winning research JSON BinPack at the University of Oxford. This research beat 40 years of benchmark records in data serialization (partly by using JSON Schema, of course!).

Juan recently ended his contract at Postman (April 2024) after over two years working on major upgrades to their desktop platform, and is now Co-Founder of Intelligence.AI, a consultency company formed from the basis of a book he recently co-authored through O'Reily, which had a focus on JSON Schema. Juan also founded Sourcemeta, an open-source organization to house JSON BinPack and other JSON related creations, before joining Postman.

For a while Juan has been working on a C++ implementation of JSON Schema, and we look forward to seeing it completed and published. Recently, Juan created a JSON Schema learning resource website, a JSON Schema Awesome List, and version converter AlterSchema.

Juan has been a great sounding board on many occasions, and often provides us with insight and understanding into JSON Schema related research, and provides great technical feedback on specification work. Juan is also collaborating with JSON Schema in Google Summer of Code via Postman to further the AlterSchema project.

In Summary

Please take this opportunity to ask questions and do your own research.

Juan and Matthew are both invested in JSON Schema and Open Source in general, have shown they have both top-tier experience and expert knowledge in JSON Scheme, are very familiar with working in Open Source spaces, and have already provide much value to JSON Schema as a project.

I would be delighted to have them both join our TSC.

Note

Our policy is that votes will close after 7 days and we must reach a 75% quorum for the vote to carry. I notice that at least one member of the TSC appears to be on vacation, so we will ideally wait for them to have the opportunity to ask questins and provide feedback/thoughts, and hopefully vote.

As part of GSoC, JSON Schema will receive a $500 stipend per contributor (often called the organization stipend). This will be a great opportunity to have additional funds to support our current initiatives but specially it will give us the chance to use those stipends to cool things like strengthen the mentoring strategy.

With that in mind I'd like to propose that mentors that are not being paid to work full time on the project will get that 500$ stipend per project. I think is important to provide this kind of incentives if we like to build trust with among our community and get more people interested next years.

I'd like to ask the TSC to vote to support or reject this proposal. Please use reactions to vote.

(Discussed in Open Community Working Meeting 2024-03-11 json-schema-org/community#662)

See voting process here.

Context

This issue is to ask the TSC for vote to approve/reject the Swag budget detailed in this issue: json-schema-org/community#678. I'd like to have the swag ready as a pre-requisite to launch the Ambassadors Program.

Dear TSC members, please vote to support or reject this proposal. (Please use reactions to vote)

(Discussed in Open Community Working Meeting 2024-04-08 json-schema-org/community#688)

See voting process here.