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title: SIGMathLing - Charter
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## 1. Purpose/Objectives
{{site.title}} organizes a community of researchers and developers in Math Lingusitics with the following [objectives](/objectives/):

1. getting together researchers and application developers interested in maths linguistics to create a critical mass.
2. promoting open licensing of math linguistics resources. 
3. collecting, curating, and internally/externally distributing a set of maths linguistic resources (corpora, lexica, libraries, tools, and benchmarks).

## 2. Members
Any individual involved in research and application development in math linguistics can join {{site.title}}, provided they 

1. sign an [non-disclosure agreement](/nda/) (i.e. all resources stay inside {{site.title}} and are used only for research purposes, unless the licenses explicitly allow so).
2. agree to  contributing (all?) their linguistic resources into {{site.title}}
3. agree to  opening up their analysis results to the others by contributing results 

Upon cessation of membership, the [non-disclosure agreement](/nda/) terminates and all {{site.title}}-internal data is permanently deleted. 

The {{site.title}} keeps a membership roster and supplies a [member's mailing list](/follow/). 

## 3. Governance
{{site.title}} is an informal member organization based on shared research interests and values therefore we intend to govern ourselves by consensus:  

1. decisions are made by the annual, online members meeting.
1. Inbetween membership meetings, an elected executive commitee conducts day-to-day business (transparently informing the members where possible).
1. All discussion is conducted or documented via public (or where necessary private) online channels.

### 3.1 The Membership Meeting.

The Executive Committee invites to the an open membership meeting at least once a year. It is chaired by a member of the Executive Committee.

Special membership meetings can be requested via a quorum of 10% of the members.

### 3.2. The Executive Committee

The Executive Committee (EC) consists of three {{site.title}} members elected for a term of two years at a Membership meeting. The EC convenes, chairs, and disseminates the minutes of the membership meetings.