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Create GOVERNANCE.md

GOVERNANCE.md

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+# Governance of The Repository
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+The current authors (as of Feb 2024 the current authors are Nahomi Ichino, Maarten Voors and Jake Bowers) will decide to accept or reject changes to this repository via unanimous agreement. They will also decide whether a new contribution merits inclusion of that contributor as an author.  All current authors commit to deliberate quickly so that proposed changes receive responses without undue delay.
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+Once a person becomes an author, they receive full authority: rather than unanimous agreement among three people, for example, when a fourth person is added, decisions about changes would then be governed by consensus among four people. We can imagine changing the governance model if the number of authors make consensus and unanimity unweildly.

README.md

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 We would love for anyone to improve this work. Please feel free to post ideas in the [Github Issues](https://github.com/egap/theory_and_practice_of_field_experiments/issues). Also feel free to [Fork](https://guides.github.com/activities/forking/) and modify and make a pull request. If you have a message to send, the best way is to use the [Issues](https://github.com/egap/theory_and_practice_of_field_experiments/issues). You can also send an email to <[email protected]>.
 
+Changes to this repository are governed by the [governance model](GOVERNANCE.md): briefly, the model requires unanimous agreement among the named authors to accept changes.
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 If you want to work on the slides, you should go to [the Learning Days Resources repository](https://github.com/egap/learningdays-resources/).
 
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