Re: GR Proposal: replace "Chairman" with "Chair" throughout the Debian Constitution
Ansgar Burchardt dijo [Sun, Jul 24, 2016 at 02:40:44PM +0200]:
> >> Luckily there's an awesome non-gendered and non-furnitured alternative:
> >>
> >> President
> >
> > Point is, the TC <function> is constitutionally only about half-surrogating
> > MIA DPLs and breaking ties. The non-constitutional part of the duty is much
> > more about making meetings happen, running the administrativia, etc. In short,
> > it's much more of a 'Secretary' role, rather than a 'President' role.
>
> That sounds like what a president does when there is no dedicated
> secretary role (which we don't have for the ctte)?
>
> But there are also the choices of moderator, facilitator, and convenor
> left from [1]. Though "moderator" is also a thing in certain contexts
> ("neutron moderator") and the Wikipedia article on "facilitator"[2]
> mentions a neutral position which doesn't quite fit with tie-breaking.
>
> [1] <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chairman>
> [2] <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Facilitator>
>
> All non-Chair choices also avoid confusion with a possible future Chair
> of the Technical Committee that might be used as part of an inauguration
> ceremony ;)
This topic is getting contentious. Should we submit it to the
Technical Committee for them to recommend an optimal way out?
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