[FSFLA] removing the "President" title in FSF sister organizations

[Daniel Pocock]

On 24/02/2022 21:54, Kaio Duarte Costa wrote:
> Em 2022-02-24 17:12, Daniel Pocock escreveu:
>> Hi all
>>
>> When I was an FSFE member (I resigned), I would sometimes ask people if
>> they wanted the FSFE President to come and speak at an event.
>>
>> Whenever I used the phrase "FSFE President", without mentioning any
>> names, people would ask me "are you talking about Richard Stallman?"
>>
>> Quite simply, outside the elites of open source politics, most people
>> don't understand the difference between FSF and FSFE and they only
>> recognize the name of one person, Dr Stallman.
>>
>> Out of respect for this phenomena I feel it would be good for all other
>> FSFs, e.g. FSFELA and FSFE, to simply remove the title "President" from
>> their board and use some alternative term.
>>
>> Regards,
>>
>> Daniel
> 
> Hey Daniel,
> 
> In FSFLA's constitution, there is no express determination, about the
> existence of a "president" (or a presidential figure) on the board of
> directors. (https://www.fsfla.org/ikiwiki/about/constitution.pt.html)
> 
> Therefore, I understand that there is no need to use such a
> nomenclature, since all members seem to have the same authority and
> power within this board. However, I understand the need to end the
> centralism in Richard Stallman's image within and outside the free
> software community by showing more breadth and diversity about the
> movement's leadership figures.
> 
> I believe, regardless of the name to be used, that centralism in a
> single name can bring several disadvantages, and so it is always good to
> clarify differences and positions when it is questioned.

That can be achieved by creating other organizations with names that are
not similar to FSF





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