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+.. _maintainers:
+
+Goverance Document
+====================
+
+This document describes the governance model of the Easybuild Project.
+
+Overview
+----------
+
+The Easybuild Project  is an open source software and released under GNU General Public License v2.0 and developed openly 
+and hosted in public GitHub repositories under the `easybuilders <https://github.com/easybuilders>`_ organization. 
+
+The Project is developed by a team of distributed developers, called Contributors. Contributors are individuals who have 
+contributed code, documentation, designs or other work to one or more Project repositories. Anyone can be a Contributor. 
+Contributors can be affiliated with any legal entity or none. Contributors participate in the project by submitting, 
+reviewing and discussing GitHub Pull Requests and Issues and participating in open and public Project discussions on 
+GitHub, Slack, and mailing lists. The foundation of Project participation is openness and transparency.
+
+BFDL
+----
+
+The Project will have a BDFL (Benevolent Dictator for Life), who is currently Kenneth Hoste. 
+As Dictator, the BDFL has the authority to make all final decisions for The Project. As Benevolent, 
+the BDFL, in practice chooses to defer that authority to the consensus of the community discussion channels
+
+Roles And Responsibilities
+----------------------------
+
+Release manager - **Kenneth Hoste** (`HPC-UGent <http://www.ugent.be/hpc/en>`_)
+~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
+
+The release manager is responsible for releasing new stable EasyBuild versions on a regular basis,
+with the help of the other EasyBuild maintainers.
+
+* GitHub: `@boegel <https://github.com/boegel>`_ 
+* e-mail: ``kenneth.hoste@ugent.be`` 
+* IRC/Slack: ``boegel``
+
+Maintainers
+~~~~~~~~~~~~
+
+The EasyBuild maintainers all have admin access to the different EasyBuild GitHub repositories:
+
+* https://github.com/easybuilders/easybuild (documentation (http://easybuild.readthedocs.io), EasyBuild website, `easybuild` metapackage)
+* https://github.com/easybuilders/easybuild-framework (EasyBuild framework)
+* https://github.com/easybuilders/easybuild-easyblocks (central repository for easyblocks)
+* https://github.com/easybuilders/easybuild-easyconfigs (central repository for easyconfigs)
+
+(maintainers are listed in alphabetical order, by last name)
+
+* **Damian Alvarez** (`JSC <http://www.fz-juelich.de/ias/jsc/EN>`_) 
+
+  - GitHub: `@damianam <https://github.com/damianam>`_ 
+  - email: ``d.alvarez@fz-juelich.de`` 
+  - IRC/Slack: ``dalvarez``
+  
+* **Miguel Dias Costa** (National University of Singapore) 
+  
+  - GitHub: `@migueldiascosta <https://github.com/migueldiascosta>`_  
+  - email: ``migueldiascosta@nus.edu.sg`` 
+  - IRC/Slack: ``migueldiascosta``
+  
+* **Pablo Escobar** (`sciCORE, University of Basel <https://scicore.unibas.ch/>`_)  
+
+  - GitHub: `@pescobar <https://github.com/pescobar>`_ 
+  - email: ``pablo.escobarlopez@unibas.ch`` 
+  - IRC/Slack: ``pescobar``
+  
+* **Kenneth Hoste** (`HPC-UGent <http://www.ugent.be/hpc/en>`_) 
+
+  - GitHub: `@boegel <https://github.com/boegel>`_  
+  - email: ``kenneth.hoste@ugent.be`` 
+  - IRC/Slack: ``boegel``
+  
+* **Adam Huffman** (`Big Data Institute, University of Oxford <https://www.bdi.ox.ac.uk/>`_) 
+
+  - GitHub: `@verdurin <https://github.com/verdurin>`_  
+  - email: ``adam.huffman@gmail.com`` 
+  - IRC/Slack: ``verdurin``
+  
+* **Samuel Moors** (`Vrije Universiteit Brussel <https://hpc.vub.be>`_)
+
+  - GitHub: `@smoors <https://github.com/smoors>`_ 
+  - email: ``samuel.moors@vub.be`` 
+  - IRC/Slack: ``smoors``
+  
+* **Alan O'Cais** (`JSC <http://www.fz-juelich.de/ias/jsc/EN>`_)
+
+  - GitHub: `@ocaisa <https://github.com/ocaisa>`_ 
+  - email: ``a.ocais@fz-juelich.de`` 
+  - IRC/Slack: ``ocaisa``
+  
+* **Mikael Öhman** (`Chalmers University of Technology <https://www.chalmers.se/en>`_)  
+
+  - GitHub: `@Micket <https://github.com/Micket>`_ 
+  - email: ``micketeer@gmail.com`` 
+  - IRC/Slack: ``micketeer``
+* **Bart Oldeman** (`ComputeCanada <https://www.computecanada.ca/>`_) 
+
+  - GitHub: `@bartoldeman <https://github.com/bartoldeman>`_  
+  - email: ``bart.oldeman@calculquebec.ca`` 
+  - IRC/Slack: ``bartoldeman``
+  
+* **Ward Poelmans** (`Free University of Brussels <https://hpc.vub.be>`_) 
+
+  - GitHub: `@wpoely86 <https://github.com/wpoely86>`_  
+  - e-mail: ``wpoely86@gmail.com`` 
+  - IRC/Slack: ``wpoely86``
+  
+* **Åke Sandgren** (`Umeå University, Sweden <http://www.umu.se/english/>`_)
+
+  - GitHub: `@akesandgren <https://github.com/akesandgren>`_ 
+  - email: `ake.sandgren@hpc2n.umu.se` 
+  - IRC/Slack: ``ake_s``
+  
+* **Davide Vanzo** (`Vanderbilt University <http://www.accre.vanderbilt.edu/>`_) 
+
+  - GitHub: `@vanzod <https://github.com/vanzod>`_ 
+  - email: ``davide.vanzo@vanderbilt.edu`` 
+  - IRC/Slack: ``vanzod``
+  
+
+
+
+
+Changing the Governance Documents
+===================================
+
+Changes to the governance documents are submitted via a GitHub pull request to The Project's governance documents 
+GitHub repository at https://github.com/easybuilders/easybuild/GOVERNANCE.rst. The pull request is then refined in 
+response to public comment and review, with the goal being consensus in the community.
+
+