# Project Management Committee (PMC)

A PMC member is a maintainer who has demonstrated leadership in the project.
The PMC guides the long-term direction, makes decisions on governance
and project changes, and protects the Lance brand.

## Rights

In addition to the [rights of maintainers](./maintainers.md#rights), PMC members have the following rights:

- Binding vote on governance process and structure modifications
- Binding vote on changes in maintainers and PMC rosters
- Binding vote on core and subproject management decisions
- Binding vote on stable releases of core and subprojects
- Binding vote on Lance format specification modifications
- Access to the private mailing list

## Activities

In addition to the [activities of maintainers](./maintainers.md#activities), PMC members are encouraged to:

- Provide guidance on the long-term direction of the project
- Make decisions on governance and project changes
- Protect the Lance brand
- Execute binding votes for stable releases
- Evaluate and respond to security vulnerabilities

## Roster

| Name            | GitHub Handle   | Affiliation  | Ecosystem Roles                                                                                               |
|-----------------|-----------------|--------------|---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------|
| Yang Cen        | BubbleCal       | LanceDB      | Milvus Contributor                                                                                            |
| Pablo Delgado   | pablete         | Netflix      |                                                                                                               |
| Hao Ding        | Xuanwo          | LanceDB      | Apache OpenDAL PMC Chair, Apache Iceberg Committer, Apache Member and [more](https://xuanwo.io/about/)        |
| Zhaowei Huang   | SaintBacchus    | Alibaba      | Apache Doris Committer                                                                                        |
| Will Jones      | wjones127       | LanceDB      | Apache Arrow PMC Member, Apache DataFusion PMC Member, Delta Lake Maintainer                                  |
| Matt Kafonek    | kafonek         | Runway AI    |                                                                                                               |
| Denny Lee       | dennyglee       | Databricks   | Unity Catalog Maintainer, Delta Lake Maintainer, Apache Spark Contributor, MLflow Contributor                 |
| Rob Meng        | chebbyChefNEQ   | Jump Trading |                                                                                                               |
| Dao Mi          | dowjones226     | Netflix      |                                                                                                               |
| Weston Pace     | westonpace      | LanceDB      | Apache Arrow PMC Member, Substrait SMC Member                                                                 |
| Calvin Qi       | calvinqi        | Harvey.ai    |                                                                                                               |
| Prashanth Rao   | prrao87         | LanceDB      |                                                                                                               |
| Ethan Rosenthal | EthanRosenthal  | Runway AI    |                                                                                                               |                                                 |
| Tim Saucer      | timsaucer       | Rerun.io     | Apache DataFusion PMC Member                                                                                  |
| Chang She       | changhiskhan    | LanceDB      | Pandas Co-Author                                                                                              |
| Jasmine Wang    | onigiriisabunny | LanceDB      | Alluxio PMC Community Manager                                                                                 |
| Lei Xu          | eddyxu          | LanceDB      | Apache Hadoop PMC Member                                                                                      |
| Vino Yang       | yanghua         | Bytedance    | Apache Hudi PMC Member, Apache Kyuubi PMC Member, Apache Kylin Committer, Apache Incubation Program Committer |
| Jack Ye         | jackye1995      | LanceDB      | Apache Iceberg PMC Member, Apache Polaris (incubating) PPMC Member, Apache Incubation Program Committer       |

## Becoming a PMC Member

PMC membership is earned through:

- Significant leadership in the project
- Long-term sustained contributions to Lance
- Active mentorship of other contributors
- Demonstrated commitment to project values
- Get nominated by a PMC member and approved through a passing vote
