Project Governance
OpenTripPlanner is a member project of the Software Freedom Conservancy. Development of OpenTripPlanner is managed by a Project Leadership Committee (PLC) which makes decisions by simple majority vote.
Project Leadership Committee (PLC)
The current members of this committee are (in alphabetical order):
| Name | Affiliation |
|---|---|
| Thomas Craig | CALACT ITS4US |
| David Emory | IBI Group |
| Leonard Ehrenfried | Independent contractor |
| Thomas Gran | Entur (Norway) |
| Joel Lappalainan | Digitransit (Finland) |
| Frank Purcell | TriMet (Portland, Oregon) |
| Anders Thorén | Skanetrafiken |
“Emeritus” members as of March 7, 2023 (emeritus members can vote if they attend, but do not count towards quorum)
| Name | Affiliation |
|---|---|
| Andrew Byrd | Conveyal |
| David Turner | ex-OpenPlans |
The PLC holds a quarterly video conference on the first Tuesday of June, September, December, and March. An agenda is prepared as a collaborative document in advance of each quarterly meeting. These meetings are held at 8AM US Pacific time to accommodate members in the US Pacific, US Eastern, and Central European time zones. Meeting notes from PLC meetings are visible here https://docs.google.com/document/d/1uuNGUNBaA3MTY-UVEb5Tt1lpqlerJVcsjmchEqV7UF8/
We take care to avoid a governance system that is too conceptual or process-heavy. The main goal is to have regular agenda-driven meetings that yield clear decisions and action items assigned to specific people. The committee should ideally be composed of active, professional contributors to the OpenTripPlanner project, including representatives of organizations that host official public deployments of OTP.
Product Meeting
Product Meetings bring together participants who are responsible for the roadmap or resource planning within organizations involved in OTP development. These meetings take place on the first Tuesday of every month at 7AM US Pacific / 10AM US Eastern / 4PM CET. Meeting notes from Product Meetings are visible here https://docs.google.com/document/d/1L8FPVJXvL7ok9wEmFa5lV_t_ES7XxN_J-1Ws8AeXySc/
Development
We enforce a policy on the review and merging of new changes to the OTP system, guided by a roadmap maintained by the Product Meeting. All changes must be reviewed and approved by at least two people from two different organizations.