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title: "Community"
description: "The {mcpdesc} community brings together maintainers, contributors, and tool builders that promote, support and advocate for a portable description format to describe MCP servers capabilities."
source: "https://mcpdesc.org/community/"
---

# Community

The {mcpdesc} Community is made up of individuals who **advocate** for the benefits of a portable format to describe MCP servers, **build** tools that support the format, and **evolve** the specification.

[Join the discussions ](https://github.com/orgs/mcpdesc/discussions)[⭐ Star on GitHub ](https://github.com/mcpdesc/mcpdesc.org "Star to support the creation of an MCP Description format")

## How the project is organized

The {mcpdesc} project uses a lightweight, consensus-oriented governance model with two distinct roles. Check the [project governance](/docs/governance) documentation for more details.

### Contributors

Contributors advance the project by proposing, discussing, or submitting improvements — code, docs, specification feedback, examples, articles. Contributions are accepted for — code under **Apache-2.0**, and — documentation and editorial content under **CC BY 4.0**.

### Maintainers

Maintainers guide the roadmap, maintain the MCP Description specification, publish releases, curate the tools catalog, review and merging contributions.

## Maintainers

### Stève Sfartz

Initiator & maintainer

Stève Sfartz is a Principal Architect at Cisco and the initiator of the {mcpdesc} project. He created the initial MCP Description format, and the MCP Toolkit open-sourced at cisco-open.

[GitHub ](https://github.com/ObjectIsAdvantag)[LinkedIn ](https://www.linkedin.com/in/stevesfartz)[steve@mcpdesc.org ](mailto:steve@mcpdesc.org)