<aside> 💡 This proposal came after the initial draft and motivations described here: https://gem-sorrel-d58.notion.site/Decidim-steering-through-community-12f711ae09b049d0bf31fbeb8851c10e. We talked about working group, but as the “Thematic committee” is already in statuses, we will talk about thematic committee in place of working group here.
We describe here several agreements that together provides a clear governance over thematic committees.
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Useful resources
A thematic committee is a community-led group that work on a specific purpose. Elected by the Coordination Committee, they will have all they need to work transparently and efficiently.
A thematic committee can be proposed by anyone to the coordination committee. The coordination committee is accountable to dialogue with the proposer in order to find a common agreement on the thematic committee goals&purpose.
As the coordination committee will elect and will need to help new committees, it’s up to the coordination committee to to choose when they are ready to accept new thematic committees proposals.
Anyone can join a thematic committee. The only membership restriction is about the committee spokeperson who must be member of the Decidim association.
We trust the thematic committee to mostly organise by themselves. The minimal governance required is:
Spokeperson
Bring transparence on the commitee on-going operations and plans.