User:Mlforcada/sandbox/governance

Mission

1. The mission of the Apertium project is to develop free/open-source machine translation for as many languages as possible
2. (... mission material from Mikel's slides, small languages, philosophy)

Roles and responsibilities

Users

1. The most important participants in the project are people who use Apertium. The majority of our developers start out as users and guide their development efforts from the user's perspective.
2. Users contribute to the Apertium project by providing feedback to developers in the form of bug reports and feature suggestions. As well, users participate in the Apertium community by helping other users on the mailing list and in the chat channel

Developers

1. 3 Developers are volunteers who are contributing time, code, documentation, or resources to Apertium. A developer that makes sustained, welcome contributions to the project may be invited to become a committer, though the exact timing of such invitations depends on many factors