Add Appendix H: Governance amendment procedure (#346)

* Add Appendix H: Governance amendment procedure This addition was adopted by the BIDS community in the 2023 election. * Apply suggestions from code review Co-authored-by: Stefan Appelhoff <[email protected]> --------- Co-authored-by: Stefan Appelhoff <[email protected]>
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 Anonymous data from BIDS elections is stored in a dedicated repository on GitHub:
 [https://github.com/bids-standard/bids-elections](https://github.com/bids-standard/bids-elections){:target="_blank"}
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+### H. Governance amendment procedure
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+A group of BIDS contributors may at any time form a [working
+group](#other-workinginterest-groups) to propose amendments to the governance.
+These amendments will be first reviewed by the Steering Group before being
+submitted to a community review.
+At the end of the community review each amendment is submitted to a vote of BIDS
+contributors.
+The voting procedure is similar to the one described for the election of
+Steering Group members in [Appendix B](#b-voting-procedure).
+Amendments are accepted if they gather more than two-thirds of the expressed votes.