# Voluntarily leaving the Steering Committee **URL:** \ **Category:** Project Discussions\ **Tags:** community-wg, steering-committee\ **Created:** [February 19, 2024, 5:34pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/voluntarily-leaving-the-steering-committee/3952 "2024-02-19T17:34:34Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 10\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![mariolenz](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/ansible/user_avatar/forum.ansible.com/mariolenz/32/108_2.png) [@mariolenz](https://forum.ansible.com/u/mariolenz)\ **Post date:** [February 19, 2024, 5:34pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/voluntarily-leaving-the-steering-committee/3952/1 "2024-02-19T17:34:34Z")
[Voluntarily leaving the Steering Committee](https://github.com/ansible/ansible-documentation/blob/1d8e851c0fa0e44f66085ce679def62e74313add/docs/docsite/rst/community/steering/steering_committee_membership.rst#voluntarily-leaving-the-steering-committee) says to open a [Community Topics issue](https://github.com/ansible-community/community-topics/issues). However, now that we’ve moved to the forum I think this should be announced here and not on GH. I’m not really sure where (directly in [News & Announcements](http://forum.ansible.com/c/news/5)?) and what tags to use. ---
**Author:** ![felixfontein](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/ansible/user_avatar/forum.ansible.com/felixfontein/32/7530_2.png) [@felixfontein](https://forum.ansible.com/u/felixfontein)\ **Post date:** [February 19, 2024, 7:22pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/voluntarily-leaving-the-steering-committee/3952/2 "2024-02-19T19:22:25Z")
Good question! (We definitely should update that.) I guess `Project Discussions` would be another category where it could go. I’m not sure which of `Project Discussions` and `News & Announcements` is best… In any case, it should have the `community-wg` and `steering-committee` tags. ---
**Author:** ![gundalow](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/ansible/user_avatar/forum.ansible.com/gundalow/32/99_2.png) [@gundalow](https://forum.ansible.com/u/gundalow)\ **Post date:** [February 19, 2024, 7:55pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/voluntarily-leaving-the-steering-committee/3952/3 "2024-02-19T19:55:14Z")
Which ever public place this goes, we should include context about the aims of Steering Committee and links to the governance docs. ---
**Author:** ![Andersson007](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/ansible/user_avatar/forum.ansible.com/andersson007/32/89_2.png) [@Andersson007](https://forum.ansible.com/u/Andersson007)\ **Post date:** [February 20, 2024, 8:09am UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/voluntarily-leaving-the-steering-committee/3952/4 "2024-02-20T08:09:41Z")
There are a PR to update that part [[SC vote needed] Steering Committee: simplify member removal policy; update links by Andersson007 · Pull Request #1075 · ansible/ansible-documentation · GitHub](https://github.com/ansible/ansible-documentation/pull/1075/files). Should we also use private messages to SC group? I don’t see any reason why we should make it public by default. If the person wants to announce their resignation on the Internet, they could open a topic, it’s not forbidden. If SC is notified, it’s imo enough by default. So I suggest using PM to SC as we do for involuntary leaving. Thoughts? ---
**Author:** ![felixfontein](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/ansible/user_avatar/forum.ansible.com/felixfontein/32/7530_2.png) [@felixfontein](https://forum.ansible.com/u/felixfontein)\ **Post date:** [February 20, 2024, 12:41pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/voluntarily-leaving-the-steering-committee/3952/5 "2024-02-20T12:41:11Z")
I think new members and leaving members should always be announced publicly. The reasoning behind leaving can be private, but the fact that a person left (or joined) is public information. ---
**Author:** ![Andersson007](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/ansible/user_avatar/forum.ansible.com/andersson007/32/89_2.png) [@Andersson007](https://forum.ansible.com/u/Andersson007)\ **Post date:** [February 20, 2024, 1:51pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/voluntarily-leaving-the-steering-committee/3952/6 "2024-02-20T13:51:40Z")
@felixfontein it’s sure not secret, though to me to create a forum topic only to announce it feels a bit like an overkill and brings too much (maybe undesirable) attention to a person’s resignation… Maybe a section in Bullhorn like `Steering Committee updates: .. a person resigned: thanks much for their service, .. a person has joined.` would work. ---
**Author:** ![Andersson007](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/ansible/user_avatar/forum.ansible.com/andersson007/32/89_2.png) [@Andersson007](https://forum.ansible.com/u/Andersson007)\ **Post date:** [February 20, 2024, 2:00pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/voluntarily-leaving-the-steering-committee/3952/7 "2024-02-20T14:00:35Z")
On the other hand, maybe Bullhorn would be an even greater overkill:) no sure. Feel free to suggest changes in the PR ---
**Author:** ![gundalow](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/ansible/user_avatar/forum.ansible.com/gundalow/32/99_2.png) [@gundalow](https://forum.ansible.com/u/gundalow)\ **Post date:** [February 20, 2024, 2:26pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/voluntarily-leaving-the-steering-committee/3952/8 "2024-02-20T14:26:58Z")
I personally like @Andersson007 idea Private discussion in Forum Public line in Bullhorn under Working Group updates (not top level big announcement) ---
**Author:** ![mariolenz](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/ansible/user_avatar/forum.ansible.com/mariolenz/32/108_2.png) [@mariolenz](https://forum.ansible.com/u/mariolenz)\ **Post date:** [February 20, 2024, 4:17pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/voluntarily-leaving-the-steering-committee/3952/9 "2024-02-20T16:17:57Z")
I like the idea of not creating a forum post just for this and announce this on Bullhorn instead. Actually, I think this should definitively be mentioned in Bullhorn (it’s our newsletter, isn’t it?) so another forum posting would be kind of duplicate. PM to `SteeringCommittee` in the forum plus an announcement in Bullhorn… sounds good to me. Maybe the person leaving should be allowed to create this, but doesn’t have to. In this case, one of the remaining SC members would do the announcement in Bullhorn. What do you think about [this](https://github.com/ansible/ansible-documentation/pull/1075/files#r1496106033)? ---
**Author:** ![mariolenz](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/ansible/user_avatar/forum.ansible.com/mariolenz/32/108_2.png) [@mariolenz](https://forum.ansible.com/u/mariolenz)\ **Post date:** [February 21, 2024, 5:30pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/voluntarily-leaving-the-steering-committee/3952/10 "2024-02-21T17:30:58Z")
> [@Andersson007](#): > > There are a PR to update that part [[SC vote needed] Steering Committee: simplify member removal policy; update links by Andersson007 · Pull Request #1075 · ansible/ansible-documentation · GitHub](https://github.com/ansible/ansible-documentation/pull/1075/files) For the record: [Steering committee: simplify member removal process](http://forum.ansible.com/t/3506) seems to be the main thread about this. Let’s move the discussion there.