A group of maintainers and developers of various GNU projects, most of whom previously advocated for moving away from Stallman's sole leadership towards collective management, founded the GNU Assembly community, with which they attempted to reform the governance system of the GNU project. The GNU Assembly is presented as a platform for collaboration among GNU package developers who act for user freedom and share the proposed vision of the GNU project.
The GNU Assembly is positioned as a new home for developers and maintainers of GNU projects who are dissatisfied with the current governance organization. The governance model of the GNU Assembly has not yet been definitively established and is currently under discussion. The governance structures of the GNOME Foundation and Debian are considered as reference models.
Among the key principles of the project are the transparency of all processes and discussions, collective decision-making based on consensus, and adherence to a code of conduct that welcomes diversity among participants and promotes friendly interactions. The GNU Assembly welcomes all participants, regardless of their gender, ethnicity, sexual orientation, professional level, and any other personal characteristics.
The following maintainers and developers have joined the GNU Assembly:
- Carlos O’Donell (maintainer of GNU libc)
- Jeff Law (maintainer of GCC, Binutils)
- Tom Tromey (GCC, GDB, author of GNU Automake)
- Werner Koch (author and maintainer of GnuPG)
- Andy Wingo (maintainer of GNU Guile)
- Ludovic Courtès (author of GNU Guix, contributor to the development of GNU Guile)
- Christopher Lemmer Webber (author of GNU MediaGoblin)
- Mark Wielaard (maintainer of GNU Classpath, contributor to the development of Glibc and GCC)
- Ian Jackson (GNU adns, GNU userv)
- Andreas Enge (main developer of GNU MPC)
- Andrej Shadura (GNU indent)
- Bernard Giroud (GnuCOBOL)
- Christian Mauduit (Liquid War 6)
- David Malcolm (contributor to the development of GCC)
- Frederic Y. Bois (GNU MCSim)
- Han-Wen Nienhuys (GNU LilyPond)
- Jan Nieuwenhuizen (GNU Mes, GNU LilyPond)
- Jack Hill (contributor to the development of GNU Guix)
- Ricardo Wurmus (one of the maintainers of GNU Guix, GNU GWL)
- Leo Famulari (contributor to the development of GNU Guix)
- Marius Bakke (contributor to the development of GNU Guix)
- Tobias Geerinckx-Rice (GNU Guix)
- Jean Michel Sellier (GNU Nano-Archimedes, GNU Gneural Network, GNU Archimedes)
- Mark Galassi (GNU Dominion, GNU Scientific Library)
- Nikos Mavrogiannopoulos (GNU Libtasn1)
- Samuel Thibault (committer of GNU Hurd, GNU libc)
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