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. -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS Debian Developer to set it on, and I can move the world. Ubuntu Developer http://www.debian.org/ slangasek@ubuntu.com vorlon@debian.org
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