Re: metaphors and feminism
Mike Hommey <mh@glandium.org> writes:
> On Sat, Mar 30, 2019 at 10:22:35PM +0200, Jonathan Carter wrote:
>> So, how about:
>> DM: Debian Members. Full members of the project that can represent
>> themselves as such, vote in elections, and have a @debian.org email
>> address. (Pretty much what a DD and non-uploading DD is).
> VDM: Vetted Debian Members.
If we're going to add the V, how about voting members? That's the primary
structural distinction, after all.
I like the "member" terminology in part because it's common terminology
for non-profits, meaning (roughly) what we mean by it:
http://www.nonprofitlawblog.com/starting-nonprofit-voting-membership-structure/
That does mean it also runs the risk of some confusion since Debian itself
is not a non-profit and does not have a legal existence, hence cannot have
members in the legal sense. But still, the definition of "member" or
"voting member" of a non-profit is spot-on for how we currently use DD.
--
Russ Allbery (rra@debian.org) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>
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