[Meta] Steering Committee and Maintainers meeting summary

[HanBnrd]

Following the Steering Committee and Maintainers meeting on 8th July 2026...

Short term actions:

• Add Damian and Edouard to the fNIRS organisation and the list of maintainers in README.md → Add maintainers and profile links #185
• Update GOVERNMENT.md to explain that small PRs can be reviewed by only Maintainers, but Maintainers are welcome to ask for the Steering Committee's review for more significant changes → @sreekanthkura7
• Add reminders to update CHANGELOG.md and validator with a PR template and GitHub action → Add PR template with checklist #176
• Update RELEASE.md to detail how we will do semantic versioning going forward: first number update = breaking changes; second number update = specs change; third number update = hotfix (typos, etc.) → @DamianNeurode
• Add to README.md that we recommend to start and watch the repository, as well as subscribe to the SfNIRS newsletter to be notified whenever there is a new release → @DamianNeurode
• Take down the unused GitHub pages (remove the pages GitHub action), and update the URL of the repo to point to the snirf_specification.md of the latest release → @emiddell
• Remove submodules (samples & MATLAB toolboxes & Git instructions) to just keep links on the README.md → [maint] Remove external lib and sample #186
• Remove legacy branches
• Rename the master branch to dev and create a release branch that will become the default (remember to update GitHub actions) → @HanBnrd
• Create a SNIRF Wikipedia page?

Long term actions:

• Workflow makeover: instead of creating the specs in markdown and then derive the validator from it, use Pydantic to define the spec with validation and then derive the markdown from it → Pydantic schema validator #181

Finally:

• Add all the changes missed since the last release to CHANGES.md and create issues for them in the pysnirf2 validator → [Meta] Add all missed changes since last release and create issues in pysnirf2 #183
• Clean up the draft release 1.2 and create a proper 1.2.0 release → @HanBnrd

[Horschig]

I added @Edouard2laire also as a maintainer to this repo