Manchester AI Guild organization

The GitHub organization profile and the default community-health files every Manchester-AI-Guild repository inherits.

This repository stores the GitHub organization profile and the default community-health configuration for the Manchester AI Guild.

Review status and org-level boundary

This is the organisation configuration layer for the Guild, and it is one of five repositories: this repository (public) holds organisation configuration, manchester-ai-guild (public) holds public content, manchester-ai-guild-operations (private) holds private operations, website (private) is the source of www.manchesteraiguild.org and the draft policy register, and manchester-ai-guild-assets (private) holds official brand assets.

• Owns: the organisation profile, issue and pull-request templates, and the default community-health files. The Code of Conduct here is the published mirror; the canonical text is policies/public/code-of-conduct.md in manchester-ai-guild-operations
• Does not own: public content, which lives in manchester-ai-guild; private operations and internal governance records, which live in manchester-ai-guild-operations
• Review gate: before a change here is merged, it must stay consistent with both of those repositories

🗂️ What's here

	File	What it is
🏛️	profile/README.md	The organization profile shown at github.com/Manchester-AI-Guild
🤝	CODE_OF_CONDUCT.md	Mirror of the canonical Code of Conduct (source: operations repository policies/public/code-of-conduct.md)
📝	CONTRIBUTING.md	Default contributing guide for every Guild repository
🛡️	SECURITY.md	How to report a vulnerability
🧾	ISSUE_TEMPLATE/, PULL_REQUEST_TEMPLATE.md	Default bug report, feature request and pull request templates
👤	.github/CODEOWNERS	Default code owners
✅	.github/workflows/security-checks.yml	Security Checks: gitleaks secret-scan on every push and pull request

🎯 Purpose

This repo is the org-level configuration layer for:

• the public organization profile
• default community guidance and contributor standards
• issue and PR templates
• security reporting and repo hygiene defaults
• shared org-level documentation and references

📚 Guild repositories

	Repository	Visibility	What it holds
🏠	manchester-ai-guild	Public	Public projects, working groups, and community collaboration: mission, purpose statement, operating model, participants, docs microsite
🌐	website	Private	Source of www.manchesteraiguild.org and the draft policy register
🎨	assets	Private	Official brand assets; only verified SLT members publish with them
🔒	manchester-ai-guild-operations	Private	Member-only planning, minutes, runbooks and the canonical policy sources
⚙️	.github	Public	This repository

📜 Policies

Draft Guild policies are registered in the website repository at docs/policies/README.md (private repository, members only); their status is Draft, awaiting SLT 10 Oct 2026. The Code of Conduct here is a mirror of the canonical file in the operations repository; edit the canonical file and copy it here.

🏛️ SLT and owners

The Guild SLT was proposed at the 28 August meeting and reviewed again at the 4 September SLT meeting. The public roster is participants-and-ecosystem.md.

Name	SLT role
Adrian Quayle	President
Mihran Hovnanian	Chairman & Secretary
Edwin Luther	Risk & Governance Director; owner of this repository
Fernando Torres	Events & Marketing Director
Rufus Curnow	Communications Director
Marek Kurczynski	Website & Platform
Trevor Roberts	Data Protection Lead
Donald McIntosh	Treasurer & CFO
Phil Davies	Operations Director
Tom Parson	Events & Community Partnerships

🛡️ Security and governance

This repository is for org-level defaults and profile content only. It should not be used for storing secrets, credentials, or sensitive project data.

Manchester AI Guild Ltd is registered with the Information Commissioner's Office as a data controller (registration ZC266348).

🤝 How to contribute

• Change a default file or the profile: open a pull request against main; the secret-scan check must pass before merge. Changes here apply to every Guild repository that does not override the file.
• Report a bug or suggest a feature in any Guild repository using the templates in ISSUE_TEMPLATE/.
• Report a security problem: follow SECURITY.md; do not open a public issue.
• Code of Conduct: applies to all Guild spaces; see CODE_OF_CONDUCT.md.

📁 Repository

• Purpose: organisation profile (profile/README.md) and default community-health files (Code of Conduct, contributing guide, security policy, issue and PR templates) inherited by every Manchester-AI-Guild repository.
• Owner: Edwin Luther, Risk & Governance Director
• Policies index: website docs/policies/README.md (private repository, members only)
• Only main exists; changes go through pull requests and the secret-scan check.