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

Current PMC members:

* Andrea Aime
* Ben Caradoc-Davies
* Christian Mueller
* Ian Turton
* Justin Deoliveira
* Jody Garnett (current OSGeo representative)
* Simone Giannecchini

Our thanks to previous PMC members:

* Andrea Aime
* Artur Hefczyc
* Cameron Shorter
* Chris Holmes
* David Blasby
* Ian Schneider
* Martin Desruisseaux
* David Zwiers
* Richard Gould
* Rob Hranac
* Rueben Schulz

Responsibilities
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PMC members:

* It is recommended that PMC members maintain a released module
  
  * Alternatives such documentation or user list have worked for previous PMC members such as Rueben Schulz)

* 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
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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
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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
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We would like to thank the founder of the GeoTools library: James Macgill