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Re: GR Proposal: replace "Chairman" with "Chair" throughout the Debian Constitution



* Margarita Manterola <marga@debian.org> [2016-07-08 15:27:56 +0200]:

> 
> The Debian Constitution is very well written, in a way that is almost completely
> ungendered.  The only gendered word left is the Chairman of the Technical
> Committee.  There is no reason for this position to be gendered. Ungendered
> alternatives for Chairman are Chair and Chairperson. While both work, Chair is
> simpler and shorter.
> 
> I'm therefore proposing the following General Resolution:
> 
> === BEGIN GR TEXT ===
> 
> Title: Replace "Chairman" with "Chair" throughout the Debian Constitution
> 
> All appearances of the word Chairman shall be replaced with the word Chair.
> 
> === END GR TEXT ===

Seconded.

Thanks for bringing this up,
-- 
Nicolas Dandrimont

"If you want to travel around the world and be invited to speak at a lot
of different places, just write a Unix operating system."
(By Linus Torvalds)

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