Add EEP-00: Governance Model and Code of Conduct

[segsell]

In this PR, we add EEP-00 -- Governance Model and Code of Conduct.

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[janosg]

EEP-00 is ready. It proposes a code of conduct and formalizes the estimagic governance model.

The code of conduct is very similar to the Contributor Covenant Code of Conduct which is adopted by many numfocus affiliated projects. They have an excellent FAQ which explains why a code of conduct is needed.

The governance model is very lightweight and formalizes three things: 1) Most of the work will continue to be done in the same pull request workflow as before. 2) Any interested party can object to changes in which case the change has to go through an Estimagic Enhancement Proposal process. 3) The steering council facilitates discussions, organizes events and serves the estimagic community in any way necessary. Its members do not have any privileges.

All interested users can comment below with approval or objections. Objections need to come with clear explanations and proposals for improvement. If there are no objections until October 10, the EEP is automatically adopted. On Wednesday, October 5 at 6 pm there will be a public zoom meeting (link on zulip) on which the members of the first steering council will be elected.

[hmgaudecker]

Looks great, just some suggestions for textual changes!

[segsell]

Looks great!! Thanks for fleshing this out!

[mpetrosian]

Looks great! Thanks for putting it together!

[amageh]

Thank you for your work on this. Looks great!

[timmens]

I'm glad we formalized both our governance model and created a code of conduct. This is an important step for estimagic and was long overdue. I also like that we chose a slightly more restrictive code of conduct in comparison to the contributor covenant version. Hopefully, we will continue to see a vibrant community of contributors that can now rely on a formalized model of responsibilities as well as an environment that cares about their safety.

[mo2561057]

Looks great. I have no further comments. Thanks for taking this on a new level!