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



Am Freitag, den 08.07.2016, 15:27 +0200 schrieb Margarita Manterola:
> 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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