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Expand Up @@ -10,7 +10,7 @@ See our [charter](charter.md).
We are comprised of:

* A **Governing Committee** which administers the financial sponsorships made via opencollective.com, and explores strategic partnerships and needs for web documentation projects. Governing Committee members are representatives of organizations that have made substantial financial contributions to OWD, and include one representative from staff.
* A **Steering Committee** which develops and implements shared public roadmaps for key documentation priorities, and facilitates community involvement and execution of those priorities. Steering Committee members are invited on the basis of their expertise and perspective, and represent a mix of individual developers, standards developing organizations, non-sponsoring organizations, and other key stakeholders.
* A **Steering Committee** which develops and implements shared public roadmaps for key documentation priorities, and facilitates execution of those priorities, working hand in hand with the [W3C Documentation Community Group](https://www.w3.org/community/docs-cg/). The Steering Committee is comprised of representatives from organizations involved with Open Web Docs. Steering Committee members are strongly encouraged to join the W3C Documentation Community Group to work with the wider web developer community on web documentation priorities.
* **Full-time technical writing staff** who oversee and execute on day-to-day documentation tasks, lead steering committee conversations, and develop and measure success. Staff are legally-compliant employees of the project.
* **Community contributors**, including technical writers from other organizations, web designers and developers, standards authors, and other individuals interested in contributing high-quality content for documentation, feedback, proposals or other input. Anyone can be a community contributor.

Expand All @@ -29,4 +29,4 @@ What is the relationship between Open Web Docs and Mozilla?
* Open Web Docs only works on free and accessible content; OWD will never contribute to content that is locked behind a paywall, subscription service or similar.
* Open Web Docs does not do work for the commercial interests of Mozilla or of any other company that we partner with.
* Mozilla is part of the Open Web Docs [Steering Committee](https://github.com/openwebdocs/project/blob/main/steering-committee/membership-expectations.md).
* Open Web Docs is not part of the [MDN Product Advisory Board](https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/MDN/MDN_Product_Advisory_Board) and has not given Mozilla advice on MDN product features (disclaimer: representatives from various companies on the MDN PAB are also representatives in the OWD Governing & Steering Committees; they wear several hats).
* Open Web Docs is not part of the [MDN Product Advisory Board](https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/MDN/MDN_Product_Advisory_Board) and has not given Mozilla advice on MDN product features (disclaimer: representatives from various companies on the MDN PAB are also representatives in the OWD Governing & Steering Committees; they wear several hats).