In September I announced a proposal for a new governance model for AMP that more explicitly gives a voice to all constituents of the community. Since that announcement we have worked with the community to improve the proposal through a wide variety of channels including comments on the proposal pull request on GitHub, issues in the ampproject/meta repository, and discussions at the AMP Contributor Summit. We are happy to announce that AMP’s new governance model goes into effect today.
Two key features of AMP’s new governance model are the Technical Steering Committee (TSC) and the Advisory Committee (AC). We have endeavored to ensure that these committees consist of people who bring a wide variety of perspectives, with representatives from different AMP constituencies. The initial membership of these committees is:
Advisory Committee
- Charles Vazac, Akamai
- Dane Knecht, Cloudflare
- Dave Merrell, The Washington Post
- Elisa Budelli, Automattic
- Guilherme Souza, Terra
- Joe Alicata, Vox Media
- Léonie Watson, The Paciello Group
- Levi Durfee, Bulldog Creative Services
- Nicole Sullivan, Google
- Pablo Delgado, El País
- Senthil Padmanabhan, eBay
- Sumantro Das, 1-800-Flowers.com
- Terence Eden
- Tim Jones, The New York Times
- Tobie Langel, CodeSpeaks
- Yinhuang Lu, AliExpress
Technical Steering Committee
- Chris Papazian, Pinterest
- David Strauss, Pantheon
- Dima Voytenko, Google
- Malte Ubl, Google
- Paul Armstrong, Twitter
- Rudy Galfi, Google
- Saulo Santos, Microsoft
Another key feature of the new governance model is the Working Groups, where most of the day-to-day work in AMP is done. A proposal for the initial set of Working Groups has been made. The Technical Steering Committee (TSC), who is responsible for creating Working Groups, had their founding meeting November 29, 2018 and discussed the proposal as well as made recommendations for additional groups. The initial list will be confirmed in the next TSC meeting in 2 weeks.
I am excited to see AMP entering this next phase, and I am looking forward to working with the entire AMP community towards achieving our vision of a strong, user-first open web forever.
Posted by Malte Ubl, Member of the AMP Project Technical Steering Committee