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



On Fri, Jul 08, 2016 at 03:27:56PM +0200, Margarita Manterola wrote:
> 
> 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 ===
> 
> This change can be applied by a simple sed command (s/Chairman/Chair/g).  I'm
> attaching the diff between the current constitution document and the output of
> said sed command to make it explicit that no other changes are intended.

Seconded.

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Steve Langasek                   Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS
Debian Developer                   to set it on, and I can move the world.
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