Wouter Verhelst dijo [Thu, Jul 21, 2016 at 11:15:57AM +0200]: > Hi Marga, > > I second this amendment, although it introduces a minor awkwardness: > > On Fri, Jul 08, 2016 at 03:27:56PM +0200, Margarita Manterola wrote: > > - <li>The Technical Committee and/or its Chairman;</li> > > + <li>The Technical Committee and/or its Chair;</li> > > A "Chairman" is a person. A "Chair" may be an object. > > I don't think anyone will misinterpret your proposed new wording into > thinking the TC has a physical chair that someone sits on, but the > s/Chairmain/Chair/ you apply does to me seem to introduce some > grammatical ambiguity that could make the text of the constitution less > clear than it might be. Given the technical advances we see every day, this would allow a future Technical Committee to appoint an AI agent, which could be enclosed in an IoT-enabled chair (think of a system in the fashion of the classic Cray X-MP¹) — Of course, given it runs on a completely DFSG-free stack. This change will allow the Technical Committee to do the best once such free AI reaches the needed maturity level, without needing a new constitutional amendment. I, for one, welcome our sitting-enabling overlords. ¹ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cray_X-MP
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