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governance
Governance
==========
RITlug's open-source governance documents.
Feel free to clone, improve, and submit pull requests
The official governance documents for the RIT Linux Users Group. All
work is open-source and suggestions to improve these documents is
welcome.
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RITLUG/governance repository
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