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| <p>November 2020 - Revision history at end.</p> |
| <h2>Purpose</h2> |
| <p>The Science Working Group (SWG) works to solve the problems of making science software |
| inter-operable and interchangeable.</p> |
| <p>The SWG, hosted by the Eclipse Foundation, is a collaborative effort involving industry, |
| academia, and government to develop reusable open source software for scientific research. The |
| SWG provides governance and infrastructure to establish common principles, and enable a |
| collaborative approach to producing technologies used for interdisciplinary analysis of |
| scientific data. The group may package components to regularly release a trusted distribution |
| of software. Group efforts help permeate concepts and capabilities to different research areas |
| which allows serendipitous discoveries to be made.</p> |
| <p>Interoperability is essential for scientific research. To address this issue, the SWG will |
| strive to collaboratively develop well defined interfaces, models, definitions, algorithms, |
| and reusable software libraries, services, and applications.</p> |
| <p>The SWG will strive to become an essential forum for engagement with industry including |
| adoption of SWG output and contribution to SWG initiatives.</p> |
| <h2>Scope</h2> |
| <p>The SWG is language and platform agnostic and develops software in the following domains:</p> |
| <ul> |
| <li>Standard descriptions and definitions of scientific data.</li> |
| <li>Processing and management of 1D, 2D and 3D data including both structured and unstructured |
| grids.</li> |
| <li>Plotting and visualizations of data in 1D, 2D and 3D.</li> |
| <li>Workflow algorithms and their visualization.</li> |
| <li>Machine learning, artificial intelligence and data mining.</li> |
| <li>Modeling and simulation projects related to the physical sciences, including but not |
| limited to physics, chemistry, biology, geology, and hydrology.</li> |
| <li>Modeling and simulation projects related to the social sciences, including but not limited |
| to sociology and psychology.</li> |
| <li>Applied mathematics projects such as common math libraries and mesh management tools and |
| with the exception of cryptography.</li> |
| <li>Infrastructure to support scientific computing, such as tools for job launching and |
| monitoring, parallel debugging, and remote project management.</li> |
| <li>Control systems for analytical hardware.</li> |
| </ul> |
| <h2>Connections with other groups</h2> |
| <p>The SWG will also work in collaboration with other related groups and Standards organizations |
| in order to avoid fragmentation and duplication of effort. A particularly close relationship |
| is anticipated with other Eclipse Foundation working groups such as LocationTech and IoT.</p> |
| <p>The SWG acknowledges the contribution of projects such as the Eclipse Parallel Tools Platform |
| (PTP) project, which has been developing infrastructure and tools for scientific computing for |
| over a decade. The SWG intends to utilize and build upon infrastructure of this nature |
| wherever possible.</p> |
| <h2>Governance and Precedence</h2> |
| <p>All SWG members must be parties to the Eclipse Foundation Membership Agreement, including the |
| requirement set forth in Section 2.2 to follow the Bylaws and then-current policies of the |
| Eclipse Foundation, including but not limited to the Intellectual Property and Antitrust Policies.</p> |
| <p>Online voting will be used as a mechanism for the steering committee to make decisions. A |
| vote may be organized by any member. Voting rights are described below. A vote is a way of |
| gauging preference from active members of the group.</p> |
| <p>In the event of any conflict between the terms set forth in this SWG Charter and the Eclipse |
| Foundation Bylaws, Membership Agreement, Development Process, Working Group |
| Process, or any policies of the Eclipse Foundation, the terms of the Eclipse Foundation |
| Bylaws, Membership Agreement, process, or policy shall take precedence.</p> |
| <h2>Applicable documents</h2> |
| <p>The following governance documents are applicable to this charter, each of which can be found on the <a href="https://www.eclipse.org/org/documents/">Eclipse Foundation Governance Documents page</a> or the <a href="https://www.eclipse.org/legal/">Eclipse Foundation Legal Resources page</a>:</p> |
| <ul> |
| <li>Eclipse Foundation Bylaws</li> |
| <li>Eclipse Foundation Working Group Process</li> |
| <li>Eclipse Foundation Working Group Operations Guide</li> |
| <li>Eclipse Foundation Membership Agreement</li> |
| <li>Eclipse Foundation Intellectual Property Policy</li> |
| <li>Eclipse Foundation Antitrust Policy</li> |
| <li>Eclipse Foundation Development Process</li> |
| <li>Eclipse Foundation Trademark Usage Guidelines</li> |
| </ul> |
| <h2>Participation guidelines and membership</h2> |
| <p>There are 4 levels of participation in the SWG. The rights and responsibilities are as |
| follows.</p> |
| <h3>Guest Members</h3> |
| <p>Guest members are persons or organizations of note that are invited by the Steering Committee |
| to participate for a 1 year term, without dues, with the following obligations. Guest |
| membership is intended as a prelude to full participation.</p> |
| <p>Guest members are required to:</p> |
| <ul> |
| <li>Be an Eclipse Foundation member in good standing.</li> |
| <li>Regularly participate in the Working Group meetings.</li> |
| <li>Guest members are non-voting members.</li> |
| </ul> |
| <h3>Participating Members</h3> |
| <p>Participant Members are organizations that view the SWG technology as an important part of |
| their organization's activities. These organizations want to participate in the development of |
| the ecosystem.</p> |
| <p>Participating members are required to:</p> |
| <ul> |
| <li>Be an Eclipse Foundation member in good standing.</li> |
| <li>Regularly participate in the Working Group meetings.</li> |
| <li>Participant members are voting members.</li> |
| </ul> |
| <h3>Steering Committee Members</h3> |
| <p>Steering Committee Members are organizations that view SWG technology as strategic to their |
| organization and are investing resources to sustain and shape the activities of this group.</p> |
| <p>Steering committee members are required to:</p> |
| <ul> |
| <li>Be a Strategic or Contributing member of the Eclipse Foundation in good standing.</li> |
| <li>Provide sustained year-over-year development from two or more persons, that contribute to |
| the activities of the group. The activities can include:</li> |
| <ul> |
| <li>committers working on Eclipse open source projects that support the group’s roadmap</li> |
| <li>creation of roadmaps and technical documents (including, for example, architectures, blueprints and best practices) supporting the group’s work</li> |
| <li>evangelism and community development for the working group and other activities agreed to by the Steering committee</li> |
| </ul> |
| <li>Participate in the working group meetings and provide timely feedback on the working group |
| documents.</li> |
| <li>Provide announcement support for working group announcements, releases, and other output.</li> |
| </ul> |
| <p>Steering Committee members are voting members.</p> |
| <p>Steering Committee members also:</p> |
| <ul> |
| <li>Nominate and vote to invite Guest and Participant members (without dues).</li> |
| <li>Identify and vote to remove members.</li> |
| <li>Propose and vote on SWG charter modifications.</li> |
| </ul> |
| <h2>Committer Members</h2> |
| <p>SWG projects are full fledged Eclipse Foundation projects, and committers for SWG projects |
| have all the rights and privileges that entails.</p> |
| <p>In addition, the SWG Steering Committee will have 1 committer representative nominated and |
| elected by their SWG committer peers. 1 additional elected committer representative will be |
| added for every 3 Steering Committee members. SWG elections shall use single transferable |
| voting.</p> |
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| <p><strong>Charter Version History</strong></p> |
| <ul> |
| <li>November, 2020 - Updates in support of the Eclipse Foundation corporate restructuring</li> |
| </ul> |
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