OpenTitan user accounts

Project Participants

  • Partner Individuals are individuals working for a Project Partner and designated by that Partner.
  • Individual Collaborators are individuals who are not working for any organisation.

lowRISC reserves the right to refuse, or revoke, Project Participant status to any individual where, in the opinion of lowRISC C.I.C. (following consultation with the respective Project Partner in the case of Partner Individuals), the actions, inactions, conduct or connections of the Project Participant have harmed or risk harming the perception or reputation of lowRISC, the OpenTitan Project and/or any Project Partner.

For non-partner individuals and individual collaborators, the decision on admission shall be made in the best interests of the Project as a whole and in keeping with lowRISC’s and the Project’s open source mission. Any decision not to admit a person must be based on objective factors (such as legal or reputational risk to the Project, non-compliance with laws, costs, or scalability) and not discrimination against the individual or any institution associated with them.

Partner Individuals

Partner Individuals are those working for an OpenTitan Project Partner and designated by that Project Partner as one of its contributors to the OpenTitan project. No separate legal agreement beyond the partner agreement is required.

Partners may identify individuals as Partner Individuals by requesting an OpenTitan account. A number of OpenTitan accounts are available according to the Partnership agreement. By identifying an individual as a Partner Individual, the Partner authorises them to agree to the terms in the OpenTitan CLA when making contributions.

If a Partner Individual leaves the employment of a Project Partner, the Project Partner must notify lowRISC C.I.C. promptly so that they can be removed from the Project.

Individual Collaborators

Individual Collaborators are individuals who wish to make a significant contribution to the OpenTitan project, either on their own or as part of a team. They will need to sign an Individual Collaborator license agreement to contribute to OpenTitan.

They should not be associated with any company. An individual is ‘associated with’ a company or other institution by being an employee, consultant or director of the institution, or because they are primarily funded by an institution.

In most cases where an individual is associated with an organisation, the organisation will join as a Partner and the individual as a Partner Individual.

If an individual is contributing as an individual collaborator, and is associated with an organisation which is not a Partner, as the individual is assigning licenses to the project, the associated organisation will need to sign a corporate contributor license agreement.

Account Management

Requesting a partner individual account

User accounts are available through partner membership. Accounts are requested from get-involved@opentitan.org. If you have more people wishing to get involved than the free entitlement from your partner membership, further user accounts can be purchased.

The limit on OpenTitan accounts according to your partnership level is applied to open accounts. If an account is not needed, it can be closed by contacting get-involved@opentitan.org and the account entitlement reused.

Requesting other accounts

Individual Collaborators should be proposed by lowRISC or a Project Partner, a decision by the Governing Board and approval by lowRISC after an Individual Collaborator agreement is signed.

Using an OpenTitan account

All communications using your OpenTitan account are as part of the OpenTitan community. Please be aware of, and comply with, the code of conduct.

OpenTitan accounts are for individuals, and should not be shared between individuals, even within the same Partner organisation.

The OpenTitan account is intended for managing communications within OpenTitan. The associated storage (“OpenTitan workspaces”) are not intended for long-term storage and there is no guarantee that data will not be deleted.

  • OpenTitan workspaces should not be used as general storage space to store non-OpenTitan material.
  • Company confidential material and non-OpenTitan IP should not be stored in OpenTitan workspaces.
  • lowRISC, as stewards of OpenTitan, are not responsible for management and backup of OpenTitan workspaces.
  • If OpenTitan accounts are closed, associated workspace data is deleted.

Maintenance of OpenTitan accounts

If you no longer need your OpenTitan account, please notify get-involved@opentitan.org and the account can be closed.

If a Partner Individual leaves the employment of a Project Partner, the Project Partner must notify lowRISC C.I.C. promptly so that they can be removed from the project.

If an OpenTitan account is not being used, it will eventually be closed, following the process below:

  • OpenTitan account usage will be monitored quarterly
  • Using an account is considered any of the following:
    • Signing in to the account
    • Sending a slack message
    • Any GitHub activity using the account
  • If an account has not been used for 6 months it is considered inactive
  • If an account is inactive the owner will be sent a warning that the account may be deleted
  • If there is no response and the account remains inactive the account will be closed after one month
  • When this happens, all data stored in the associated personal Google workspace (e.g. MyDrive, Calendar, Gmail, etc) is deleted, with no backup maintained