very very first work on describing the project governance

Author: fkr

Standards/scs-0005-v1-project-governance.md

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+---
+title: Sovereign Cloud Standards
+type: Procedural
+status: Draft
+track: Global
+stabilized_at:
+description: |
+  SCS-0005 outlines the structure and governance of the SCS community by the SCS Project Board and how this is elected.
+---
+
+## Introduction
+
+The [Sovereign Cloud Stack (SCS)](https://scs.community) provides standards
+for a range of cloud infrastructure types as well as a modular open-source
+reference implementation.
+The project is governed by the _SCS Project Board_.
+
+## Role of the _SCS Project Board_
+
+The role of the _SCS Project Board_ is the overall governance of the SCS Community and Project.
+This happens together with the _Forum SCS-Standards_ of the Open Source Business Alliance. To further
+underline this alignment the _Forum SCS-Standards_ is part of the _SCS Project Board_.
+The _SCS Project Board_ itself is elected by the _SCS Community_.
+
+
+### Definitions
+
+#### _SCS Project_
+
+The _SCS Project_ is the Open-Source project that is comprised of the software, documentation, documents, blog posts as well as the people ("_SCS Community_") working on this.
+
+#### _SCS Community_
+
+The collective of people, companies and organizations promoting the idea of the _SCS Project_ as well as the people working on the various aspects.
+
+
+## Election of the _SCS Project Board_
+
+### Term
+
+The _SCS Project Board_ is elected for the term of one year. Elections are done
+in November. The December serves as a transition period.
+
+### Seats on the board
+
+The _SCS Project Board_ contains five seats. One of these seats is filled by
+the delegate of the _Forum SCS-Standards_. The other four seats are voted upon.
+
+### Nominations
+
+Every person that is part of the Sovereign Cloud Stack GitHub organisation can be
+nominated for the board. Likewise one can nominate oneself.
+
+### Egible for voting
+
+Every person that is a member of the github organization "Sovereign Cloud Stack" is egible for voting.
+
+### Mechanisms
+
+Each voting person has eight (8) points that can be cast during the voting process.
+The points can be distributed between four candidates.
+The four candidates with the highest amount of points overall are then elected.
+
+