[Linux-aus] Converting Linux Australia's "Committee" to a "Board"

[Sridhar Dhanapalan]

On Thu, 1 Mar 2007, Stewart Smith <stewart at linux.org.au> wrote:
> On Mon, 2007-02-26 at 15:52 +1100, Jonathan Oxer wrote:
> > > So another model would be
> > > 	elevate the committe to council
> > > 	elevate sub-committees to commitees (best named committees)
> > > 	retain president and vice president
> >
> > Sounds like a good model to me: it's basically what I'm wanting to
> > achieve, but with "Council" instead of "Board". The connotations of a
> > "Council" is that it's more representative of the community anyway. I
> > like it!
>
> One of the problems with the word council is that it can conjure up
> ideas of representation based on location (e.g. a counselor for each
> state, city or whatever) and this isn't what we're trying to achieve
> (although it's generally nice for la ctte to be composed of people not
> just from one place).

'Parliament', perhaps :p 

To use one example, Ubuntu has a 'Community Council'. I have never heard of 
anyone assuming that its members have representation based on geographical 
boundaries.

-- 
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