# Roles and responsibilities **Chair** The chair is leading the Group. The chair is responsible for announcing the meetings in the Open Data Product Initiative project under Open Initiative. **Co-chair** Groups can have also co-chair, who acts on behalf of the chair in case of the chairpersonabsence of chair person. **Observer** Observer is an individual person who can participate activities such as meetings, but has no voting rights. Observer does not have rights to raise issues to the meeting agenda. However, they have a voice in meetings to express opinions and viewpoints. **Contributor** Contributor is anyone: * raising issues to the specification * making pull request to the specification or Governance model **Member** Member refers to individuals in the groups of Open Data Product Initiative. The Groups are defined in the Governance model (this document) **Strategy Group (SG)** Strategy Group is a permanent part of the Governance. It defines the strategy for ODPS, oversees the releases, maintains the Governance model, can invite individuals to Strategy Group. **Technical Steering Committee (TSC)** TSC is responsible for the specification development. It controls the lifecycle of the specification including releases. --- # Agent Instructions: Querying This Documentation If you need additional information that is not directly available in this page, you can query the documentation dynamically by asking a question. Perform an HTTP GET request on the current page URL with the `ask` query parameter: ``` GET https://governance.opendataproducts.org/v1/organization/roles-and-responsibilities.md?ask= ``` The question should be specific, self-contained, and written in natural language. The response will contain a direct answer to the question and relevant excerpts and sources from the documentation. Use this mechanism when the answer is not explicitly present in the current page, you need clarification or additional context, or you want to retrieve related documentation sections.