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Charter, governance rules, steering roster, custody of the name and marks, and code of conduct, as an interim pre-incorporation draft for review. The Steering Committee has seven seats allocated by constituency rather than by organization, which is what makes the neutrality claim checkable. Seats are placeholders: no name or affiliation is recorded without the written consent of the person concerned. Governance documents are versioned by date tag (YYYY.M.D-N). Pushing one renders the documents into a single consolidated PDF and publishes it as a release, so reviewers and counsel can circulate a fixed, citable snapshot without cloning the repository. Every other run builds the same PDF as an artifact, so a rendering failure surfaces before a version is ratified. Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Independent review of the drafts scored them well for open science but identified friction that laboratory, university, and enterprise legal teams would hit. Each of those is now answered in the documents rather than left to be discovered in review. Terms of participation, in the Charter: - Contributions, IP, and publication (§5): DCO with no CLA and no copyright assignment; what employer and institutional rights a contributor must clear first, with students and postdocs called out because a personal sign-off does not displace an institution's ownership claim; patents limited to the Apache-2.0 §3 grant and nothing beyond it; an explicit guarantee that nothing restricts publishing research. - Antitrust (§7): the topics that must not be discussed in any CAMSAI forum, the duty to halt a discussion that approaches them, and the statement that no participant is obliged to deal with any other. - Export control (§8): what CAMSAI will not accept — classified, CUI, ITAR material, anything needing a licence — and that the contributor's own institutional release process governs, since publishing cannot be recalled. - Funding and support (§9): no dues; who bears the operating costs; and that support buys no governance rights, which is the point rather than an oversight. - Interim status (§11.2): what happens if no fiscal sponsor exists by the end of 2027 — the Charter continues, seats do not lapse, and the question must be put to a recorded vote by 30 September 2027. Composition and process, in GOVERNANCE.md: - The founding period is defined (§3.1): who the Convener is, what founding participants are, and that the cohort is open — a late appointment carries the same standing as the first, and no expression of interest may go unanswered. - Constituency drift is separated from a member moving (§3.3): a company growing past the startup threshold does not cost the member their seat mid-term, because the alternative makes that seat a liability to accept. - An Advisory Council (§5) gives organizations that commit substantial resources a standing non-voting channel — agenda items answered on the record, advance notice of amendments, written positions filed with decisions — without putting seats up for sale. - The one-seat rule is explained rather than merely stated (§1.1): it caps seats, not maintainership, Council participation, or support. - Seat 6 spans open-weight developers and hosted services, which have different interests, so the seated sub-constituency is recorded and alternates across terms. Seat 2 now covers non-degree-granting research institutes; seat 1 covers non-US national laboratories. Also: a Code of Conduct path for reports concerning the Chair or the Steering Committee itself, including an external reviewer where recusals leave no one able to decide fairly; SUPPORTERS.md as the public register of costs, supporters, and the Council; SECURITY.md for this repository; the commercial effect of the naming rule stated plainly in TRADEMARKS.md §4.1; and a reviewer's index in the README mapping the questions counsel actually asks to the sections that answer them. Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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Interim, pre-incorporation drafts of the documents that define how CAMSAI governs itself, opened for review before anything is ratified.
CHARTER.mdGOVERNANCE.mdSTEERING.mdSUPPORTERS.mdTRADEMARKS.mdCODE_OF_CONDUCT.mdSECURITY.mdscripts/build-pdf.sh,.github/workflows/governance-pdf.ymlPoints that need a decision rather than a copy-edit
GOVERNANCE.md§1): seven seats allocated by constituency rather than by organization, one seat per organization. This is what makes the neutrality claim checkable, and §1.1 explains what the cap does not limit — maintainership, Advisory Council participation, and support are all uncapped.CHARTER.md§9.4): contributing money or resources buys no seat, vote, or roadmap priority, deliberately. The Advisory Council (GOVERNANCE.md§5) is the alternative on offer: a standing non-voting channel with agenda items answered on the record.TRADEMARKS.md§2): Mat3ra holds the name, domain, and organization for the benefit of the consortium, with written undertakings to assign, not to encumber, to act on Steering direction, and to maintain.CHARTER.md§11): what may not be represented while there is no entity, and — in §11.2 — what happens if no fiscal sponsor exists by the end of 2027. The Charter continues, seats do not lapse, and the question must be put to a recorded vote by 30 September 2027.GOVERNANCE.md§4).GOVERNANCE.md§3.1): who the Convener is, and the rule that the founding cohort stays open — a seat filled late carries the same standing as the first.Terms institutional reviewers will look for
CHARTER.md§5 (DCO, no CLA, no copyright assignment; employer and student/postdoc rights; patents limited to the Apache-2.0 §3 grant; an explicit guarantee that nothing restricts publication), §7 (antitrust), and §8 (export control, and whose institutional release process governs). The README carries an index mapping these questions to the sections that answer them.Notes
No person or institution is named anywhere: seats, the Convener, and the conduct contact are placeholders pending written consent and a Steering decision.
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