Community

The standard belongs to everyone who adopts it.

POSS is developed in the open and governed by its community. Here is where the work happens — and how to take part.

GitHub

The specification, the reference implementations, and the proposal process. Everything is developed here, in the open.

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Discord

Real-time discussion with contributors and adopters. Announced soon.

Announced soon

Mailing list

Low-volume updates on the standard, certification, and the annual POSS Summit. Announced soon.

Announced soon

How to contribute

Three ways to take part.

01

Improve the standard

Propose a principle, sharpen a verification method, or argue one should change. The reasoning is recorded with the decision.

02

Build reference software

Contribute to AERIE or build your own POSS-compliant project and help define what compliance looks like in practice.

03

Help others comply

Document patterns, review self-assessments, and lower the bar for the next project to adopt POSS.

All community spaces operate under a code of conduct. Disagreement is welcome; bad faith is not. The goal is a standard that earns trust — that starts with how we treat each other.