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  1. “Affiliate” means an entity that directly or indirectly controls, is controlled by, or is under common control of that Steering Member or Associate.
  2. “Approval” or “Approved” means a decision made pursuant to Section 4.1.
  3. “Approved Deliverable” means the final version and contents of any Draft Deliverable approved as an Approved Deliverable as set forth in Section 7.4.
  4. “Associate” means a party, and that party’s Affiliates, that has executed this Project Charter at the Associate level, unless that Associate has withdrawn or been terminated from the Project, or has changed membership level.
  5. “Contribution” means any original work of authorship, including any modifications or additions to an existing work, that the Steering Member or Associate intentionally submit for inclusion in the Draft Deliverable or Approved Deliverable, which is included in the Draft Deliverable or Approved Deliverable. For the purposes of this definition, “submit” means any form of electronic, oral, or written communication for the purpose of discussing and improving the Draft Deliverable or Approved Deliverable, but excluding communication that the Steering Member or Associate conspicuously designate in writing as not a contribution.
  6. “Contributor” means a party, and that party’s Affiliates, that has executed this Project Charter at the Contributor level, unless that Associate has withdrawn or been terminated from the Project, or has changed membership level
  7. “Control” means direct or indirect control of more than 50% of the voting stock or decision-making authority.
  8. “Draft Deliverable” means all versions of the material (except an Approved Deliverable) developed by a Working Group for the purpose of creating, commenting on, revising, updating, modifying, or adding to any document that is to be considered for inclusion in the Approved Deliverable.
  9. “Join or Joined” means that a party has entered into the Membership Agreement for this Project and that has indicated either in the Membership Agreement or subsequently in writing to the Executive Director that they have joined a Working Group and agree to be bound by the terms of that Working Group’s Charter.
  10. “Project” means the name of the Project set forth in Section 1 that is established under this Project Charter as a Joint Development Foundation Projects, LLC series.
  11. “Series Agreement” means the agreement that establishes the Series under Joint Development Foundation Projects, LLC that this Project operates under.
  12. “Scope” means a description of the deliverables that a given Working Group will develop as set forth in that Working Group’s Charter.
  13. “Steering Member” means a party, and that party’s Affiliates, that has executed the Membership Agreement for this Project either 1) as a Steering Member, or 2) who has joined the Steering Committee in response to the Steering Committee’s nomination, as applicable per the Steering Committee composition election in the Membership Agreement, unless that Steering Member has withdrawn or been terminated from the Project, or has changed membership level.
  14. “Supermajority Vote” means an affirmative vote of no less than 3/4 of Steering Members or Working Group Participants, as applicable, that have attended/participated in at least 50% of the last 4 meetings of the group conducting the vote, where each Steering Member or Working Group Participant will receive only 1 vote regardless of how many individuals from that Steering Member participate. To ensure the group is capable of making decisions, the voting requirement for attendance/participation of at least 50% of the last 4 meetings shall be waived if there have not yet been meetings.
  15. “Working Group” means a working group established under this Project via a Working Group Charter to develop Deliverables within the Scope. Each Working Group must have a Scope.
  16. “Working Group Participant” means a Steering Member, Associate, or Contributor who has Joined a Working Group.