Steering committee doc

Signed-off-by: deepthi <[email protected]>

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+# Vitess Steering Committee
+
+## Overview
+This document outlines the mission, scope, and objectives of the Vitess Steering Committee.
+
+## Goals
+The Steering Committee exists as the overall governing body of the Vitess project, providing the project values, operations and structure.
+
+## Scope
+The Steering Committee has a set of rights and responsibilities including the following:
+
+* Charter for Steering Committee.
+* Define and evolve project governance structures and policies, including how contributors become maintainers.
+* Define Steering Committee structure, terms and elections.
+* Decide, for the purpose of elections, who can vote.
+* Logo/landing page/marketing.
+* Maintain relationships with CNCF in conjunction with the technical lead and community advocate
+* Define, evolve, and defend the vision, values, mission, and scope of the project.
+* Establish processes regarding, and provide a final escalation path for any contested project governance related decision.
+* Establish processes regarding other project resources/assets, including artifact repositories, build and test infrastructure, web sites and their domains, blogs, social-media accounts, etc.
+* Request funds and other support from the CNCF (e.g. marketing, press, etc.).
+* Delegate appropriate authority to trusted individuals.
+
+## Committee Structure
+Committee structure will initially be determined by a bootstrap steering committee (see below). Beyond that the steering committee can itself decide to change the committee structure if necessary.
+
+## Bootstrap Steering Committee
+We will form a bootstrap Steering Committee to serve for one year. The responsibilities of the bootstrap committee will be as follows.
+
+* Charter for Steering Committee.
+* Define Steering Committee structure, terms and elections.
+* Decide, for the purpose of elections, who can vote.
+* Conduct elections to form the next Steering Committee.
+
+### Members
+* Rafael Chacon @rafael
+* Michael Demmer @demmer
+* Paul Hemberger @pH14
+* Derek Perkins @derekperkins
+* Deepthi Sigireddi @deepthi
+* Sugu Sougoumarane @sougou, Chair
+
+## Credits
+This document was inspired by
+
+https://github.com/open-telemetry/community/blob/master/governance-charter.md
+https://github.com/kubernetes/steering/blob/master/charter.md
+https://github.com/todogroup/governance/blob/master/CHARTER.adoc