Gunnar Wolf <gwolf@debian.org> writes:
> 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?
If possible, the subject experts should make such decisions -- assuming
that we're talking about an armchair, how about moving this discussion
to debian-arm?
Cheers, Phil.
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