This is a special GitHub repository. Placing specifically named files in specifically named places causes specific effects in the ICI3D organizational page. See the documentation for more details; particularly this bit for GH profile view.
This repository is public: we generally prefer to make our institutional materials publicly available. Part of the mission of ICI3D is to incubation new workshops, clinics, etc and as such, we strive to make all our organizing elements also publicly available.
However, some materials are access sensitive. While we never put any access keys in repositories, some of the processes for using those keys (e.g. how to engage with domain hosting and so on) expose information that could be combined with other purloined data to mess with the organization. To ward that off, there is also a private repository for members-only-management information.
In addition to the GH-specific structural files, we also use this repository to document techniques, procedures, policy, etc for working with the organization's GH presence:
ICI3D organizes along two primary dimensions: Functional teams and Activity teams. Functional teams represent functions within the overall organization; Activity teams correspond to particular offerings of ICI3D, e.g. a workshop like MMED.
The Functional teams have indefinite lifetimes, though somewhat regularly changing composition. The Activity teams are associated with the "next" offering of that activity (or the most recent offering, while post-event feedback / updates / etc occur). Both kinds of teams are persistent, but in general Activity teams are reset once post-event work is wrapped - that means basically the membership roster is deleted, and leadership / management folks should be turned over to the next event team.