SOFA – Presentation

Going faster and further together for the development of SOFA

Missions

The SOFA Consortium aims at gathering partners understanding they have a shared interest in improving SOFA. These partners are therefore willing to contribute to adequate staffing of the consortium through membership fees to deliver increasingly better versions of SOFA.

Administratively hosted by as a non-profit action at Inria, the established missions of the SOFA Consortium staff focus on:

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Organization of Governance Committees
Organization of developers’ meeting
Promote all SOFA achievements
Free forum support

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Release management
Document SOFA
Make the open-source core more stable and robust

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Continuous Integration
Review of contributions on GitHub

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one or more long-term development,
depending on financial support
(donation & memberships)

Governance

The Consortium relies on two steering committees:

Executive Committee

This committee appraises the proper functioning and the management conducted by the SOFA Consortium. Regarding the financial status of the Consortium, the Executive Committee decides on evolutions of the membership contract. Considering the recommendations submitted by the Scientific & Technical Committee, this committee also defines the communication policy and the priority of the Consortium.

The Executive Committee includes:

one representative for each Strategic Partner
one representative of the Coordinator: Inria
one scientific representative
one representative of the Scientific & Technical Committee

Scientific & Technical Committee

This committee is in charge of the federation and coordination of development actions in the SOFA community. It defines the technical roadmap twice a year, validate the contribution rules, the GitHub reviewer team and discuss every technical point in SOFA. This committee submits recommendation to the Executive Committee.

The Scientific & Technical Committee includes: