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+# Fluentd Governance
+
+## Principles
+
+The Fluentd community adheres to the following principles:
+
+- Open: Fluentd is open source. See repository guidelines and CLA, below.
+- Welcoming and respectful: See Code of Conduct, below.
+- Transparent and accessible: Work and collaboration are done in public.
+- Merit: Ideas and contributions are accepted according to their technical merit and alignment with project objectives, scope, and design principles.
+
+## Voting
+
+The Fluentd project employs "organization voting" to ensure no single organization can dominate the project.
+
+Individuals not associated with or employed by a company or organization are allowed one organization vote. Each company or organization (regardless of the number of maintainers associated with or employed by that company/organization) receives one organization vote.
+
+In other words, if two maintainers are employed by Company X, two by Company Y, two by Company Z, and one maintainer is an un-affiliated individual, a total of four "organization votes" are possible; one for X, one for Y, one for Z, and one for the un-affiliated individual.
+
+Any maintainer from an organization may cast the vote for that organization.
+
+For formal votes, a specific statement of what is being voted on should be added to the relevant github issue or PR, and a link to that issue or PR added to the maintainers meeting agenda document. Maintainers should indicate their yes/no vote on that issue or PR, and after a suitable period of time, the votes will be tallied and the outcome noted.
+
+## Changes in Maintainership
+
+New maintainers are proposed by an existing maintainer and are elected by a 2/3 majority organization vote.
+
+Maintainers can be removed by a 2/3 majority organization vote.
+
+## Github Project Administration
+
+Maintainers will be added to the __fluent__ GitHub organization and added to the GitHub cni-maintainers team, and made a GitHub maintainer of that team.
+
+After 6 months a maintainer will be made an "owner" of the GitHub organization.
+
+## Projects
+
+The fluent organization is open to receive new projects under it umbrella. To apply a project as part of the __fluent__ organization, it have to met the following criteria:
+
+- Licensed under the terms of the Apache License v2.0
+- Project have been active for at least one year since it inception
+- More than 2 contributors
+- Related to one or more scopes of Fluentd ecosystem:
+  - Data collection
+  - Log management
+  - Metering
+- Be supported by 2/3 majority of organization
+
+The submission process starts as a Pull Request on Fluentd repository with the required information mentioned above.
+
+## Code of Conduct
+
+Fluentd follows the CNCF Code of Conduct:
+
+https://github.com/cncf/foundation/blob/master/code-of-conduct.md