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+# Committee Charter: Library Carpentry Governance Committee
+Approval date: pending <br />
+Status: active <br />
+
+
+## Description/Problem Statement
+
+The committee is established to provide community leadership for the Library Carpentry lesson program. 
+Committee members represent the interests of the lesson program community, 
+overseeing project strategy and informing the actions of the Core Team and Executive Council as they relate to the lesson program.
+
+
+## Objectives/Purpose
+
+Activities of the committee will fall into three categories:
+
+* Strategy:
+    * Monitoring the health of the lesson program and designing strategies to maintain and improve it
+    * Identifying priorities for growing the community and reach of the lesson program
+    * Working with Core Team and other community members to act on the strategic priorities identified
+* Advocacy:
+    * Representing the lesson program in their local and professional networks
+    * Working with the Executive Council and Core Team to promote the interests of the lesson program within The Carpentries
+* Communication:
+    * Reporting on the activities, objectives, and needs of the lesson program to the Executive Council and Core Team
+    * Engaging the community on topics and projects relevant to the development of the lesson program
+    * Working with the Core Team to maintain up-to-date information about the lesson program on The Carpentries websites
+
+
+## Roles and Responsibilities
+
+- Chair, responsible for:
+    - overall leadership of the committee and advancing its aims and objectives
+    - preparing meeting agendas, sharing agendas with the committee in advance, 
+      setting meeting roles, and approving meeting minutes for publication
+    - serving as the main point of contact for the committee
+    - keeping the committee documentation up to date
+    - producing periodic reports to The Carpentries Executive Council
+- Secretary, responsible for:
+    - scheduling meetings and sharing calendar invitations
+    - providing a location for online meetings
+    - preparing meeting minutes and publishing them following approval
+- Member, responsible for:
+    - notifying Chair of potential agenda items as they arise
+    - reading agenda and other relevant documents sent by Chair prior to meeting
+    - attending and actively participating in regular meetings
+    - participating in asynchronous voting through GitHub as needed.
+    - working with Core Team and community members to implement committee recommendations as needed
+
+
+## Operational Procedures
+
+Processes for recruiting/selecting new members for the committee, onboarding and offboarding of members, 
+and succession planning for officer roles, are detailed in [the Lesson Program Governor handbook][lpgc-handbook].
+
+### Decision making process
+
+**LPGCs please discuss how you want to make decisions, 
+and add details in this section before the charter is submitted to the Executive Council for approval.**
+
+### Meetings
+
+Meetings of the Governance Committee are private to members of the committee.
+To raise something for discussion with the committee, send a message to [the TopicBox list][topicbox].
+
+Minutes of past meetings are available in [the `minutes` directory][minutes] of this repository.
+
+
+## Core Team Liasion
+
+Toby Hodges, Director of Curriculum
+
+
+## Members
+
+### Current Members
+
+- Yared Abera
+- Mary Filsell
+- Ekatarina Grguric (Chair)
+- Elizabeth McAulay (Secretary)
+- Belinda Weaver
+
+
+[lpgc-handbook]: FIXME
+[minutes]: ./minutes/
+[topicbox]: https://carpentries.topicbox.com/groups/lc-governors/