Participants and access

Last modified: 2026-11-15 00:00by Erik Hagen ID: 6e2a2857-9ae4-4a39-80f8-028395d40069 SAMT-X/samt-bu-governance

The work in SAMT-BU takes place in the GitHub organisation samt-x. Everything that is published can be read by anyone, even without an account. To contribute, have tasks assigned to you and see what is not public, you need to be a member of the organisation.

Joining the work

  1. Create a GitHub account at github.com if you do not already have one. It is free
  2. Send your username (not your email address) to someone in the core team, and say which work you will take part in, for example a pilot or a subject team
  3. Accept the invitation. It arrives by email, and can also be found on GitHub under your profile picture → Settings → Organizations. You can open it directly at github.com/orgs/samt-x/invitation. The invitation expires after seven days. Let us know if it has expired, and we will send a new one

Once you are in, you can edit on the site, see the boards and have tasks assigned to you. Where to find your tasks is described in Tasks and follow-up.

What you get access to

Access is granted to teams, not to individuals. You are added to the team for the work you take part in, and get:

  • write access to the shared site content, the drafts and the document archive, which all participants have
  • write access to the repository of your own team or pilot

If you take part in more than one piece of work, you are added to several teams.

Who decides

This arrangement applies for the time being, see the decision of 24 October 2026:

  • Anyone can propose new participants. Send the proposal to someone in the core team
  • The core team approves new participants and removes those who are no longer part of the work. Anyone in the core team can do this
  • The owners of the organisation have full access everywhere and handle what requires owner permissions in GitHub. Members can see who the owners are under People in the organisation

A shared overview of roles and tasks in the governance and administration of the ecosystem is being worked on in samt-bu-architecture#34. Once it exists, it replaces the arrangement above.

For administrators

The core team keeps a member list that is not public, and checks it against GitHub. The procedure for bringing in, following up and removing participants is described in Managing members and access.