Re: I intend to stand for the project leadership
On Sep 24, Dale Scheetz wrote
> On Tue, 23 Sep 1997, Philippe Troin wrote:
> > Sounds silly eh ? I know but I have an epidermic reaction with the terms
> > VP, President, CEO, etc... Especially when it comes to projects like
> > Debian.
> >
> For this very reason I have chosen Coordinator as a more descriptive term
> for my "superior" position in the testing group for this very reason. I
> don't really see any problems with "pompous" titles...you have to call
> them something.
> Would you feel more comfortable calling Bruce "Master" and his appointees
> "SlaveN" (where N is a unique number for each individual)?
"I'm not a number, I'm a human being" (Iron Maiden, Number of the Beast
(IIRC)).
But seriously, I don't think titles matter that much. Those offended by
titles like "Vice President of frobnication" should do a mental search and
replace to something like "primus inter pares [*] wrt frobnication".
[*] "first among equals" for the old-roman-languagishly-challenged.
Ray
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