Onboarding — 2025 Technical Advisory Council

Tracking issue for onboarding the 2025 Technical Advisory Council

New (or returning) members

Community-elected TAC members

• Bob Callaway, Google — @bobcallaway
• Michael Lieberman, Kusari — @mlieberman85
• Zach Steindler, GitHub — @steiza

GB-appointed TAC members

• Stephen Augustus, Independent — @justaugustus
• Georg Kunz, Ericsson — @gkunz
• Michael Scovetta, Microsoft — @scovetta

Emeriti

• Dan Appelquist — @torgo
• Sarah Evans — @sevansdell

Tasks

Please use the onboarding draft as a reference point: https://github.com/ossf/tac/pull/429

• Update references to and terms for 2025 TAC: https://github.com/ossf/tac/pull/425
• [Chair/Vice Chair] Prepare and send onboarding email to new/returning members

New members

• Create or update TAC bios
• Join the openssf-tac@lists.openssf.org mailing list
• Join the following public Slack channels
  • #general — general topics
  • #openssf-operations — OpenSSF staff support
  • #tac — OpenSSF TAC discussions
  • (optional) #tac-gh — GitHub notifications for the ossf/tac repository

OpenSSF staff

• Ensure new members have access to the following private Slack channels and remove emeriti
  • #tac_members-openssf_staff (private) — communications channel for OpenSSF TAC and staff
  • #mac-editorial-review-panel (private) — editorial review board for the OpenSSF Marketing Committee
• Add new members to the @ossf/tac GitHub team and remove emeriti
• Add new members to TAC private mailing list and remove emeriti

Follow-ups

• Draft initial TAC onboarding document: https://github.com/ossf/tac/pull/429
• Create onboarding issue template once onboarding draft has merged
• Complete follow-up items in https://github.com/ossf/tac/issues/430

cc: @steiza