Members of B77:
There are two more articles of the charter that are being presented to the membership by the charter convention committee for discussion and (hopefully) ratification, plus a small amendment to one of the previous articles already ratified. They are being presented in three separate threads in order to avoid confusion.
This thread covers a proposed change that the committee wants to make to the previously ratified Article 3: Administrators. The committee is recommending that our Administrators be referred to by the title "Rangers."
A bit of history. When the convention first started, I suggested naming the admins "Shirriffs." The idea got tabled for a while, but we raised again recently. In the course of that discussion, it was suggested by Axordil that Rangers would be an even better name. In Tolkien's legendarium, Rangers are noble people, yet self-effacing. They labor ceaselessly for the good of the communities they protect, with no thought of their own glory or self-aggrandizement. I completely agree that these are excellent qualities to look for in our administrators.
Please keep in mind that the only choices that will be put up to a vote is either renaming the office "Ranger" or keeping the name "Administrator" (or "admin" for short). We are not soliciting suggestions for other alternatives. We had some talk in the convention of skipping some or most of the 10 day discussion period for this one, since there really doesn't seem to be much to discuss. But we decided that we went better stick rigidly to the procedure that we set up.
We will discuss from Tues May 31 ~11:59 pm GMT to Fri Jun 10 ~11:59pm GMT. We will vote from Fri June 10 ~11:59pm GMT to Mon Jun 20 11:59pm GMT. Ratification requires a quorum of at least 39 votes and a super-majority of at least 2/3 of the votes.
The full charter can be read HERE
Thanks!
Voronwe