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# GNU Social Contract Endorsement
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This page collects endorsements of [version 1.0 of the GNU Social
Contract](gnu:social-contract) by GNU maintainers. The endorsement
period *will end on February 24th, 2020*—see the timeline below.
# Endorsements
The following maintainers endorse the GNU Social Contract, version 1.0:
- Frederic Y. Bois (GNU MCSim)
- Andrej Shadura (GNU Indent)
- Werner Koch (GnuPG, GNU Libgcrypt)
- Mark Galassi (GNU Scientific Library, GNU Dominion)
- Ricardo Wurmus (GNU Guix, GNU Guix Workflow Language, GNU Guile-Debbugs)
- …
# Timeline
- *October 2019*. Discussion on a GNU social contract
[starts](https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/gnu-misc-discuss/2019-10/threads.html#00055).
- *January 26th, 2020*. All 400 GNU maintainers and uploaders
[emailed with a call for feedback and a
timeline](https://wiki.gnu.tools/git/gnu-tools-wiki/tree/code/sc-email.txt).
- *February 10th, 2020*. End of the previously-announced feedback
period. A group of maintainers goes through the feedback received,
[publishes anonymized feedback and
resolutions](gnu:gsc-feedback), leading to
[version 1.0 of the GNU Social
Contract](gnu:social-contract) (see [commit
history](https://wiki.gnu.tools/git/gnu-tools-wiki/commit/?id=678b044fc8d5bacc148b76559bc0e15c5329a391)).
- *February 11th, 2020*. This page is created.
- *February 24th, 2020*. End of endorsement period.
# Background
The goal of the GNU Social Contract is to state the core values GNU
maintainers who have endorsed it are committed to uphold. It is both
an agreement among us, GNU contributors, and a pledge to the broader
free software community.
Additionally, we think it can be a first step towards formalizing a
transparent and collective governance of the GNU Project.
This initiative is not supported by Richard Stallman. Nevertheless,
we consider it a legitimate action by and for GNU maintainers to
collectively define the core values we believe GNU stands for.
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