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Governance

Initial Steering Committee (iSC)

In February 2025, an Initial Steering Committee for EasyBuild was formed.

Responsibilities

The main reposibility of the Initial Steering Committee is to come up with a proper governance structure for EasyBuild, beyond the BDFL + do-ocray model that has been used since EasyBuild was made publicly available as open source software in 2012.

Members

The members of the Initial Steering Committee include (in alphabetical order):

  • Sebastian Achilles (Jülich Supercomputing Centre, Germany)
  • Simon Branford (University of Birmingham, UK)
  • Kenneth Hoste (Ghent University, Belgium)
  • Adam Huffman (University of Oxford, UK)
  • Sam Moors (Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium)
  • Caspar van Leeuwen (SURF, The Netherlands)

Meetings

  • 3 March 2025: kickoff meeting
  • 18 June 2025: discuss draft proposal for proper governance structure for EasyBuild