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## Steering Committee
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The GEDCOM standard is overseen by a steering committee who meet weekly to discuss issues and pull requests on the GEDCOM repositories.

Most of the work of developing and refining the standard are done between those meetings,
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either by individuals or project teams.
That work consists of identifying issues, proposing alternatives, and writing those up as pull requests.
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The weekly steering committee meetings primarily discuss the issues and pull requests resulting from that project team and individual work.
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When the current steering committee notices that someone not on the committee is making consistent helpful contributions spanning several areas of the specification over an extended time,
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they invite that person to join the steering committee.

## Project Teams
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If you would like additional information or request to participate in one or more of the following Project Teams, send an email to <[email protected]> putting "Project Team: team name(s)" in the subject.
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