Communities of Interests hosted by the comdev PMC

STATUS: proposal to the comdev PMC, who will need to vote to accept it if we agree

As discussed in April 2021 we plan to offer the following services for Apache projects to create communities of interests around specific topic.

The motivation is a concrete request to do that for a healthcare community of interests.

What the Community Development PMC offers

• A homepage under https://community.apache.org/c/ ("c is for communities") named after your initiative
• A mailing list with the same name @community.apache.org, archived at lists.apache.org

Oversight, and what you need to get started

The comdev PMC accepts oversight of the homepage and mailing list, and has ultimate decision power on how they are used.

That decision power is mostly meant to be used if such resources become stale or aren't used anymore, in which case they might be turned off. But apart from that and assuming our Code of Conduct is followed in the way those resources are used, the comdev PMC will let the community of interests manage them.

To demonstrate interest and to share the load with the comdev PMC, we are asking that each community of interests nominates three ASF Members from interested PMCs to act as shepherds for those resources. They will be asked to provide the content for the homepage (managed at https://github.com/apache/comdev-site) and moderate the mailing list. Their Apache IDs must be indicated on the community homepage and kept up to date if they change.

One of these three people can then request the creation of the homepage and mailing list with a short justification explaining why it's needed, on the dev@community.a.o mailing list.

Next steps

I'll mention this proposal on the dev@community.a.o list for PMC feedback and move to a vote to make it official if no one objects.