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+# Distributed System Analysis Round Table Charter
+
+The Distributed System Analysis (DSA) organization is home to a **free, open
+source collection of projects, and will remain so**. Our main mission is to
+foster and improve methods of collection and analyzing data about distributed
+systems.
+
+This charter covers **important processes and decisions that impact the whole
+organization, direction, and goals**.  Individual repositories maintain their
+own per-project processes and decisions that are not covered by the organization
+charter or have been given exceptions.
+
+## DSA Round Table
+
+The DSA Round Table (*DRT*) consists of:
+* 4 chairs with equal rights who
+  - Enforce the [Code of Conduct](https://github.com/distributed-system-analysis/.github/blob/main/CODE_OF_CONDUCT.md)
+  - Have administrative rights over the [GitHub org](https://github.com/distributed-system-analysis),
+    communication channels, and other community-owned resources
+  - Publicly record decisions made by the DRT in the
+    [drt-decisions](drt-decisions) folder
+* Individuals who want to join the DRT and pass a review of their PR sent to
+    [DRT_MEMBERS.md](DRT_MEMBERS.md), with approval depending on any one or
+    more of the below requirements:
+  - They contribute with code, documentation, artwork, articles, videos, talks,
+    or similar additions to the Distributed System Analysis ecosystem
+  - They are an active user of Distributed System Analysis projects (end user,
+    product builder, researcher, etc. - please describe your use case in the PR,
+    you do not have to mention any company names or details)
+  - They are actively helping community members on any of the official
+    Distributed System Analysis channels
+
+### Termination of DRT membership
+
+An DSA Round Table member *(including chairs)* that does not participate in
+round table matters (voting) 3 times in a row *without reason and notice* leaves
+the round table automatically, as we can assume they are not interested in being
+a member of the DRT anymore. This ensures that we do not have a corpus of
+inactive members with voting rights.
+
+Meetings do not count as necessary round table matters, as we want to include
+people in all stages of life and across all timezones. We therefore refrain
+from any synchronous or undocumented decision making.
+
+Additionally, as stated in the [Distributed System Analysis Code of Conduct](https://github.com/distributed-system-analysis/.github/blob/main/CODE_OF_CONDUCT.md),
+chairs can remove a DRT member if their behavior is clearly disruptive to the
+community.
+
+## Decision Proposals
+
+Decisions can be started *only asychronously* in the [DRT repository pull requests](https://github.com/distributed-system-analysis/dsa-round-table/pulls)
+via submitting a pull request with a new file to [drt-decisions/proposals](drt-decisions/proposals).
+You can use the included `template.md` file as a guideline. Decision proposals
+can only be submitted by DRT members. If you would like to encourage discussion
+around a decision before any voting starts, please submit as a draft PR instead
+and mark it ready for review once you are comfortable that you will not add any
+changes to your proposal.
+
+## Voting
+
+Each member of the DSA Round Table is eligible for voting if they have been a
+member of the DRT for at least 30 days. For any decision that impacts the whole
+project or processes, a vote is started where a 66% majority with a quorum of
+66% of all DRT members is needed for the proposal to pass.
+
+If the majority cannot be reached, the proposal is considered rejected and can
+be brought to the DRT again 2 months after the rejection at the earliest. If the
+same decision has been rejected twice, it cannot be brought to the DRT again.
+
+Any voting period must last at least 7 days to account for different time zones
+and other obligations, and should last no longer than 30 days. The voting period
+should be stated in the proposal.
+
+DRT members cast their votes by starting a review that either approves or
+rejects the decision suggested via a pull request. Once the voting period is
+over or all DRT members have voted, the chairs record the decision, objections,
+and other relevant information in the `drt-decisions` folder. Silence equals
+abstaining from a vote.
+
+## Chair Elections
+
+If a chair leaves through non-participation or through their own announcement,
+elections for a new chair take place.
+
+After the announcement of a chair leaving, there is a period of 30 days for
+nominations (from the date of the announcement). Any DRT member can nominate
+another DRT member or themselves, while a second member has to sponsor the
+nomination. Only members that have been part of the DRT for 6+ months are
+eligible to become a chair or sponsor a nomination.
+
+After the nomination period, elections take place asynchronously through the
+same process as standard decision proposals.
+
+## Changing the Charter
+
+This charter can only be changed by suggestions first passing through a 66%
+majority of DRT members and a subsequent 66% vote among the chairs.
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+# DSA Round Table
+
+For the DSA Round Table governance, please refer to our [charter](CHARTER.md).
+
+By adding your name to this file you confirm that you understand and agree to
+the [Distributed System Analysis Code of Conduct](https://github.com/distributed-system-analysis/.github/blob/main/CODE_OF_CONDUCT.md)
+and [contribution guidelines](https://github.com/distributed-system-analysis/.github/blob/main/CONTRIBUTING.md).
+
+## DRT Chairs
+
+* [Nick Dokos](https://github.com/ndokos)
+* [Lukáš Doktor](https://github.com/ldoktoro)
+* [Mustafa Eyceoz](https://github.com/Maxusmusti)
+* [Peter Portante](https://github.com/portante)
+* [Karl Rister](https://github.com/k-rister)
+* [Pravin Satpute](https://github.com/pravins)
+* [Archit Sharma](https://github.com/arcolife)
+* [Andrew Theurer](https://github.com/atheurer)
+
+## DRT Members
+
+*Add your name and GitHub profile link below this line via a pull request to
+this repository.*
+
+* [Shubham Bansal](https://github.com/shubham-html-css-js)
+* [Dave Butenhof](https://github.com/dbutenhof)
+* [Ashish Kamra](https://github.com/ashishkamra)
+* [Michey Mehta](https://github.com/mnmehta)
+* [Nikhil Palaskar](https://github.com/npalaska)
+* [Siddardh Ramesh](https://github.com/siddardh-ra)
+* [Riya](https://github.com/riya-17)
+* [Tim Saulino](https://github.com/TimSaulino)
+* [Webb Scales](https://github.com/webbnh)
+* [Pradeep Surisetty](https://github.com/psuriset)
+* [Varshini](https://github.com/MVarshini)
+* [Vishal Vijayraghavan](https://github.com/vishalvvr)