# Drafting the Technical Committee charter **URL:** \ **Category:** Technical Committee\ **Created:** [July 5, 2024, 8:53pm UTC](https://forum.openreferral.org/t/drafting-the-technical-committee-charter/545 "2024-07-05T20:53:02Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 8\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![bloom](https://dub1.discourse-cdn.com/flex017/user_avatar/forum.openreferral.org/bloom/32/103_2.png) [@bloom](https://forum.openreferral.org/u/bloom)\ **Post date:** [July 5, 2024, 8:53pm UTC](https://forum.openreferral.org/t/drafting-the-technical-committee-charter/545/1 "2024-07-05T20:53:02Z")
Hi folks – I’ve pulled together [this starting point for a charter for the Technical Committee](https://docs.google.com/document/d/1QBn5dqYIrrGwHKF_kwWVi_52ZWVa4UiVvVjctYlYXwo/edit). All of the content in there has come from elsewhere. There are three sections that I expect will need to be developed from scratch for this to be ‘minimally viable’: - Decision-making process - How members join, leave, or are removed - Dissolution I think a significant amount of the ‘decision-making process’ has been hashed out and just needs to be put in here, although there may be other kinds of decisions not yet accounted for that should be. I’ll check with @devin but if anyone else has suggestions for minimally-viable starting points for the other two bullets, let us know. ---
**Author:** ![bloom](https://dub1.discourse-cdn.com/flex017/user_avatar/forum.openreferral.org/bloom/32/103_2.png) [@bloom](https://forum.openreferral.org/u/bloom)\ **Post date:** [July 10, 2024, 6:21pm UTC](https://forum.openreferral.org/t/drafting-the-technical-committee-charter/545/2 "2024-07-10T18:21:17Z")
Great discussion today, approving the material that was already there, and expanding the outline of material to be further specified. See here: [DRAFT Charter: HSDS Technical Committee - Google Docs](https://docs.google.com/document/d/1QBn5dqYIrrGwHKF_kwWVi_52ZWVa4UiVvVjctYlYXwo/edit) ---
**Author:** ![bloom](https://dub1.discourse-cdn.com/flex017/user_avatar/forum.openreferral.org/bloom/32/103_2.png) [@bloom](https://forum.openreferral.org/u/bloom)\ **Post date:** [August 5, 2024, 1:22pm UTC](https://forum.openreferral.org/t/drafting-the-technical-committee-charter/545/3 "2024-08-05T13:22:25Z")
Hi folks – I have worked through notes from our last conversation about the charter to flesh out proposed sections for Meetings and Decision-Making. [See this document here.](https://docs.google.com/document/d/1QBn5dqYIrrGwHKF_kwWVi_52ZWVa4UiVvVjctYlYXwo/edit) There are still some open questions about membership, leadership, subcommittees, and dissolution – all on Page 3. We can spend a bit of time at the meeting working discussing these; depending on how that goes, we may then be able to submit a complete draft for approval. Please review and offer any proposed changes or suggested issues to discuss in advance of our next meeting (Aug 14th). Thanks! ~greg ---
**Author:** ![bloom](https://dub1.discourse-cdn.com/flex017/user_avatar/forum.openreferral.org/bloom/32/103_2.png) [@bloom](https://forum.openreferral.org/u/bloom)\ **Post date:** [August 19, 2024, 3:28pm UTC](https://forum.openreferral.org/t/drafting-the-technical-committee-charter/545/4 "2024-08-19T15:28:03Z")
Hi folks – thanks for your input during the last technical committee meeting. I’ve put forth [another set of suggested revisions for the Charter here](https://docs.google.com/document/d/1QBn5dqYIrrGwHKF_kwWVi_52ZWVa4UiVvVjctYlYXwo/edit). Also added an introductory section to describe the document. This may be all we need for now, so please find time to review and offer any other issues between now and our next Technical Committee meeting. If we don’t receive any significant feedback before that meeting, I’ll expect we’ll just do a final review and approval then. thanks! greg ---
**Author:** ![Dan-ODS](https://dub1.discourse-cdn.com/flex017/user_avatar/forum.openreferral.org/dan-ods/32/89_2.png) [@Dan-ODS](https://forum.openreferral.org/u/Dan-ODS)\ **Post date:** [September 16, 2024, 12:51pm UTC](https://forum.openreferral.org/t/drafting-the-technical-committee-charter/545/5 "2024-09-16T12:51:25Z")
Hi all, Please vote below to indicate whether you approve of the Charter Greg has drafted and revised. There’s a couple of loose ends (see comments in the doc) but nothing major that I think warrants us holding off on getting this approved. _Poll ([view on site](https://forum.openreferral.org/t/drafting-the-technical-committee-charter/545/5))_ ---
**Author:** ![Dan-ODS](https://dub1.discourse-cdn.com/flex017/user_avatar/forum.openreferral.org/dan-ods/32/89_2.png) [@Dan-ODS](https://forum.openreferral.org/u/Dan-ODS)\ **Post date:** [September 25, 2024, 2:59pm UTC](https://forum.openreferral.org/t/drafting-the-technical-committee-charter/545/6 "2024-09-25T14:59:36Z")
Reminder to committee members to vote on this too. Dan ---
**Author:** ![bloom](https://dub1.discourse-cdn.com/flex017/user_avatar/forum.openreferral.org/bloom/32/103_2.png) [@bloom](https://forum.openreferral.org/u/bloom)\ **Post date:** [October 9, 2024, 10:02pm UTC](https://forum.openreferral.org/t/drafting-the-technical-committee-charter/545/7 "2024-10-09T22:02:15Z")
Hey @Dan-ODS I think the link in that poll is not correct. [This is the charter.](https://docs.google.com/document/d/1QBn5dqYIrrGwHKF_kwWVi_52ZWVa4UiVvVjctYlYXwo/edit) What’s the status (sorry I missed the first part of today’s meeting)? I’m not sure if we really need a poll with five people in the committee, but it might be easy enough to just create a new one. One way or another, let’s get this done. ---
**Author:** ![Dan-ODS](https://dub1.discourse-cdn.com/flex017/user_avatar/forum.openreferral.org/dan-ods/32/89_2.png) [@Dan-ODS](https://forum.openreferral.org/u/Dan-ODS)\ **Post date:** [October 10, 2024, 11:10pm UTC](https://forum.openreferral.org/t/drafting-the-technical-committee-charter/545/8 "2024-10-10T23:10:21Z")
Apologies! For the link issue and also missing the opportunity to get get verbal sign off at the meeting this week. The link is now correct and poll deadline has been extended way into December so it can be used if people are willing/able. As its setup, working and 5 clicks away from getting the job done I don’t see why we can’t use it this time around - but agree this is a bit heavy handed for decision making going forward. Dan