Note: This document has been superseded by Nov 2021 Revised Declaration of Commitment to the Core Contributor Program

March 23rd, 2021

We, members of the Open edX community and contributors to the project, declare our support and attachment to the success of the Core Committer program. We want to recognize the significance of the step taken by one of us, the edX organization, to ensure the success and future of the project. It opens it further and empowers its main contributors to do more. Sharing the responsibility of a project is never an easy step to take, especially one of the size and significance of Open edX; however, the dedication and vision of many in the community thus far have shown that it is the prudent step to take.

We are honored to be trusted this way, and as the community as a whole benefits from the project’s long-term success, we will do our utmost to demonstrate the program’s worth. This is a bet on the value of empowering the community, and we are determined to show the accelerating effect it can have on contributions, and on allowing the project to reach a broader audience.

To this effect, we formally commit our organizations to increase our level of contribution to the Open edX project for at least the next two years, through our participation in the Core Committer program. Core Committers are individual contributors chosen on their own merits, but as the organizations employing them, we will allocate resources to ensure they can contribute significantly to the project.

We also enjoin other organizations, technical and educational, to join us in our pledge, and to come to contribute to the project with us. We have all spent too much time working in isolation - now is our opportunity to impact the project as a whole, together.

Signatories and commitments: