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+# Community Processes     {#community-processes}
+
+The community around RIOT gathers many IoT developers and users from around
+the world, from the industry, from academia, and hobbyists. The RIOT
+community is open to everyone. To join and interact, you are invited to:
+* join and post to the [forum](https://forum.riot-os.org/),
+* post on [GitHub](https://github.com/RIOT-OS/RIOT/pulls),
+* connect and post to the [Matrix chat](https://matrix.to/#/#riot-os:matrix.org),
+* join virtual or f2f [meetings](https://forum.riot-os.org/c/community/events).
+
+The community self-organizes using the open processes described below.
+
+## Contributors
+
+Code contributions are very welcome. In order to streamline and harmonize code
+quality, contributors must follow the [contributing guidelines](https://github.com/RIOT-OS/RIOT/blob/master/CONTRIBUTING.md).
+Aside of code contributions, you can also contribute to RIOT on other aspects,
+e.g. by actively participating in technical and non-technical discussions within
+the community. Regular and interim virtual meetings are announced on the
+[forum](https://forum.riot-os.org/c/community/events).
+
+## Maintainers
+
+Among contributors, some have maintainer status, which consists in rights (merge rights)
+and duties (code review duties).
+
+Maintainers can propose to give maintainer status to contributors that have been
+noticed as particularly active in some domain of RIOT. The decision to grant this
+status is then taken via consensus among maintainers. If there is consensus on
+granting the status to a particular contributor, a maintainer will contact personally
+this contributor to propose the status, which the contributor can then accept
+(or turn down).
+
+We are constantly looking for more maintainers. So if you are up for that,
+please start (or continue) contributing code and reviews!
+
+To contact maintainers, the best is to interact over actual RIOT code on
+[GitHub](https://github.com/RIOT-OS/RIOT/pulls).
+
+## Coordinators
+
+Among contributors, some are also interested in discussing RIOT matters and
+perspectives, beyond coding RIOT. In short, maintainers focus on technical
+aspects, while coordinators focus on non-technical aspects of RIOT activity.
+Of course, there is a strong overlap between maintainers and coordinators.
+
+Coordinator status consists essentially in duties (bringing up topics, debates
+and deal with the overhead). But sometimes, coordinator status does bring
+some moral reward (e.g. when an initiative brings organizational improvements,
+in the end ;).
+
+Coordinators can propose to give coordinator status to contributors that have
+been noticed as particularly active in this domain. The decision to grant this
+status is then taken via consensus among coordinators. If there is consensus
+on granting the status to a particular contributor, a coordinator will contact
+personally this contributor to propose the status, which the contributor can
+then accept (or turn down).
+
+To contact coordinators, the best is to email the generic mailing list
+riot@riot-os.org
+
+## Task Forces
+
+Parts of the community are gathered in *Task Forces*, which provide a specific
+venue focusing on a particular technical topic.
+
+*Task Forces* are (typically short-lived) efforts to achieve a well-defined goal.
+This goal might be either designing a concept and/or implementing such a concept
+or improving the quality of a certain feature/property of RIOT.
+
+Each Task Force consists of a small number of RIOT developers and has its own Wiki
+page. One or two shepherds are identified per task force as the main contact(s)
+for this activity.
+
+**Creating a new Task Force**. If you wish to launch a new task force, go ahead,
+create your wikipage, name your shepherd(s), and signal it on the forum. RIOT
+maintainers will contact you in the rare case where duplicate or very closely-related
+work has been detected elsewhere, and if joining forces might make sense.
+
+**Life of a Task Force**. Shepherds and/or participants in a Task Force are invited
+to now and then update their wikipage, report progress or summarize the latest stand
+of your discussions on the forum. A shepherd-hood may be transferred from one person
+to another person if everyone is happy about that.
+
+**Dissolving an existing Task Force**. Dissolving an existing Task Force happens either
+(i) as the shepherd(s) declare the TF has concluded, or declare the TF is abandoned, or
+(ii) when the shepherds are unreachable, the TF has been dormant for a long time and
+RIOT maintainers declare the TF dissolved.
+
+More information about (active/concluded/archived) task forces can be found [here](https://github.com/RIOT-OS/RIOT/wiki/Task-Forces).