# Minimum Viable Governance: lightweight community structure to grow your FOSS projects

DevFeed: [Minimum Viable Governance: lightweight community structure to grow your FOSS projects](<https://devfeed.tech/articles/minimum-viable-governance-lightweight-community-structure-to-grow-your-foss-projects-68541.md>)

Original publisher: [Read original article](<https://github.blog/open-source/maintainers/minimum-viable-governance-lightweight-community-structure-foss-projects/>)

Author: Justin Colannino

Published: 2021-07-22T17:00:32Z

Content type: article

Language: en

Sources: [GitHub Blog](<https://devfeed.tech/sources/github-engineering.md>)

Topics: [open source maintenance](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/open-source-maintenance.md>), [Maintainers](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/maintainers.md>), [Open Source](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/open-source.md>)

Tags: [community](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/community.md>), [free-and-open-source](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/free-and-open-source.md>), [governance](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/governance.md>), [maintainers](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/maintainers.md>), [open-source](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/open-source.md>)

## AI overview

Minimum Viable Governance is an open-source framework for organizing free and open source projects as maintainer teams grow. It outlines decision-making, trademark and antitrust policies, a code of conduct, and project criteria, with a lightweight structure intended to reduce friction while supporting project coordination.

## Source excerpt

When you move from 1 maintainer to 1+N maintainers of your project, things can get complicated. Minimum Viable Governance (MVG) is a simple, easy-to-implement governance framework for your free and open source projects.