Back in September, we did something with Orchard that is kind of a big deal: we transferred control over the Orchard project to the communityMost Open Source projects that were initiated by corporations such as Microsoft are nowadays still governed by that corporation.
They may have an open license, they may take patches and contributions, they may have given the copyright to some non-profit foundation, but for all practical purposes, it’s still that corporation that controls the project and makes the big decisions.
That wasn’t what we wanted for OrchardWe wanted to trust the community completely to do what’s best for the projectThis is why we organized elections for our new Steering Committee and had five members elected.
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