governance: add initial documentation for project governance (#4457)

governance: add initial attempt to document project governance

Signed-off-by: deadprogram <[email protected]>

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+TinyGo Team Members
+===================
+
+The team of humans who maintain TinyGo.
+
+*   **Purpose**: To maintain the community, code, documentation, and tools for the TinyGo compiler.
+*   **Board**: The group of people who share responsibility for key decisions for the TinyGo organization.  
+    *   **Majority Voting**: The board makes decisions by majority vote.
+    *   **Membership**: The board elects its own members.
+*   **Do-ocracy**: Those who step forward to do a given task propose how it should be done. Then other interested people can make comments.
+*   **Proof of Work**: Power in decision-making is slightly weighted based on a participant's labor for the community.
+*   **Initiation**: We need to establish a procedure for how people join the team of maintainers.
+*   **Transparency**: Important information should be made publicly available, ideally in a way that allows for public comment.
+*   **Code of Conduct**: Participants agree to abide by the current project Code of Conduct.
+
+## Members
+
+* Ayke van Laethem (@aykevl)
+* Daniel Esteban (@conejoninja)
+* Ron Evans (@deadprogram)
+* Damian Gryski (@dgryski)
+* Masaaki Takasago (@sago35)
+* Patricio Whittingslow (@soypat)
+* Yurii Soldak (@ysoldak)
+
+## Experimental
+
+*   **Monthly Meeting**: A monthly meeting for the team and any other interested participants.  
+    Duration: 1 hour  
+    Facilitation: @deadprogram
+    Schedule: See https://github.com/tinygo-org/tinygo/wiki/Meetings for more information
+