CivicTechWR Organization Configuration

Organization-wide GitHub configuration and community health files for CivicTech Waterloo Region.

About

This repository contains default community health files and configuration that applies to all repositories in the CivicTechWR organization.

Contents

Community Health Files

Default files that appear in all CivicTechWR repositories (unless overridden):

• CODE_OF_CONDUCT.md - Our community standards and expectations
• CONTRIBUTING.md - How to contribute to our projects
• SECURITY.md - Security policy and vulnerability reporting
• ISSUE_TEMPLATE/ - Issue templates for bugs, features, and questions
• PULL_REQUEST_TEMPLATE.md - Pull request template
• CODEOWNERS - Ownership for this repository only. GitHub does not propagate this file to other repos — each project must add its own. See codeowners-branch-protection.md.

Organization Profile

• profile/README.md - Organization profile shown on the CivicTechWR GitHub page

Governance & Operations Docs

• docs/governance/codeowners-branch-protection.md - Branch protection guidance, team roster, and break-glass procedure
• docs/gitleaks-response.md - Secret scanning triage and remediation guide

Why This Repository?

GitHub automatically uses files in .github as defaults across all repositories in the organization. This ensures:

• Consistent community standards across all projects
• Easier onboarding for new contributors
• Centralized maintenance of policies and guidelines

Contributing

Found an issue or want to suggest improvements to our community files? Open an issue or pull request!

• Meetup: CivicTechWR Events
• Website: CivicTechWR.org
• Email: civictechwr@gmail.com

Resources

• About default community health files
• GitHub organization best practices