Foundation 2026 Membership: Governance, Voting, Working Groups
The 2026 membership cycle opens with three new working groups (Safety-Certified, Embedded AI Ethics, and Neural Interface Standards) and a refreshed governance charter.
What changed
The 2026 governance charter introduces three changes: (1) The Technical Steering Committee (TSC) expands from 5 to 7 seats, with 2 seats reserved for community-elected members. (2) All TSC votes are now public record, published within 48 hours of the vote. (3) Any Foundation member can submit an RFC; previously only TSC members could.
New working groups
Three new working groups launch in 2026: Safety-Certified (IEC 62443, ISO 26262 ASIL-B compliance for EoS), Embedded AI Ethics (responsible AI deployment guidelines for eAI and eNI), and Neural Interface Standards (interoperability standards for BCI devices using the eNI protocol). Each working group meets monthly and publishes minutes publicly.
Open voting record
All TSC votes from 2024 onward are published in the Foundation's public governance repository. This includes votes on RFC acceptance, release approvals, and budget allocations. The voting record is signed by each TSC member's GPG key for non-repudiation.
Joining
Foundation membership is open to individuals and organizations. Individual membership is free (Community tier) or $10/month (Supporter tier). Organizational membership starts at $500/year (Sponsor tier). All membership tiers include voting rights on community RFCs. Supporter and above tiers include TSC election voting rights.
About these articles
How these articles are published
Every article on this site renders through this one page, from the Foundation's shared content registry. The title, date, badge, tags, and body all come from the same data the News page lists — which is why the two can never disagree about what an article says or when it appeared.
The registry replaced eight separate article pages whose metadata had drifted apart: seven of them showed a different publication date than the news listing. One source of truth is less interesting than eight bespoke pages, and considerably more honest.
What an article is
Articles are the long form: explanations of how something works, technical writing about the stack, and reflections on the work. News carries the timely announcement; the article carries the full treatment — the reasoning, the context, and the detail that would not fit in a listing.
Each article states its assumptions and links its evidence where evidence exists. The source material behind the technical claims — the code, the measurements, the filings — is public in the Foundation's repositories.
Dates and addresses
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If an article is corrected after publication, the correction is noted rather than silently made — the same standard our press releases are held to. The page you are reading is the current version, and the record of what changed stays with it.