The BigCode Project Governance Card
BigCode collaboration Sean Hughes Harm de Vries Jennifer Robinson Carlos Muñoz Ferrandis Loubna Ben Allal Leandro von Werra Jennifer Ding Sebastien Paquet Yacine Jernite
This document serves as an overview of the different mechanisms and areas of
governance in the BigCode project. It aims to support transparency by providing
relevant information about choices that were made during the project to the
broader public, and to serve as an example of intentional governance of an open
research project that future endeavors can leverage to shape their own
approach. The first section, Project Structure, covers the project
organization, its stated goals and values, its internal decision processes, and
its funding and resources. The second section, Data and Model Governance,
covers decisions relating to the questions of data subject consent, privacy,
and model release.