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Q1: Do you have any comments or suggestions on the organisation and role of the Lesson Organisations under the umbrella of The Carpentries organisation? Specifically:

Q1a: responsibilities to The Carpentries and to the community?

Q1b: governance model?

There has been some confusion about the name of the governing organization for the Carpentries. As a fiscally sponsored project, the name of this governance organization cannot be "board" or "board of directors" because in the United States, where we are a fiscally sponsored project, those terms confer legal fiscal responsibility. Our governing body does not have those legal obligations.

We have been calling our governance for both Software and Data Carpentry "Steering Committee". We are using that term now for the election, but the name can be changed once the new governance body is in place.

This issue is to answer any questions about this, and get suggestions for other potential names.

@tracykteal Can we archive this repository? Will be more productive for people to link to issues here but not add new comments during the new request for comments.

cc @k8hertweck

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Q1: Do you have any questions about The Carpentries financial status?

Please leave comments and questions about the merger process, the use of RFCs, or other general issues here.

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Q1: Do you have any comments or suggestions on the role of staff in the context of The Carpentries (umbrella organisation)?

Q2: What do you see as the most urgent staffing priorities for The Carpentries?

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Q1: Do you have any comments or suggestions on the organisation of Subcommittees and Task Forces under the umbrella of The Carpentries organisation? Specifically:

Q1a: on reporting?

Q1b: governance?

Q2: Are there any new subcommittees that would be beneficial?

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Q1: Do you have any comments on the purpose or role of the Membership Council?

A discussion regarding the names we're applying to the umbrella organization started in the comments section of this blog post. The basic concern is that "The Carpentries" is not immediately recognizable as a software/data/computation related organization. Specific posts are as follows:

From Dena Strong:
I love the idea of merging the organizations, but the name worries me - the word "Carpentries" by itself is terrible as a findable brand because it doesn't retain either of the words that makes it distinguishable from traditional wood-based carpentry in search engines. It's a name with internal singificance to people in the know that loses the keywords involved n its external significance to people we're trying to reach. I'd be fine with either Software Carpentry or Data Carpentry (or conceivably Software and Data Carpentry) as a joined name, but I can't imagine "Carpentries" being a word that would mean "Learn how to program" to people who didn't already know the history of the name.

My response:
Thanks for this comment, and your point is well taken! "The Carpentries" has been our operational/working term for the umbrella organization, in part because we are planning for this restructured organization to be able to expand to other Carpentry groups in the future. Perhaps a more general term like "Programming Carpentries" or "Coding Carpentries" would be inclusive enough, while also informative for branding?

From Jeremy Zucker:
How about Digital Carpentries as the umbrella organization, with software and data as the two underlying digital instantiations?
On a philosophical/historical aside, data and software are indistinguishable to a "stored program digital computer." http://wiki.c2.com/?DataAndCodeAreTheSameThing
Thus it always seemed to me quite fitting that software and data carpentry would eventually merge into digital carpentries.

List of things that need to be done for the upcoming election.

• @maneesha mail list of voters to @kcranston
• @kcranston set up ElectionBuddy
• after Nov 30: @kcranston email candidates re: procedures (as suggested by @k8hertweck , the two candidates with the first and second most votes serve two year terms, while those with the third and fourth most votes serve one year terms)
• after Nov 30: @k8hertweck to write blog post with links to candidate bios, post to DC and SWC blogs
• @kcranston to open and close ElectionBuddy poll. As suggested by @maneesha: open at midnight between Dec 3 and 4 in time zone UTC+12 (the first place in the world it becomes Dec 4) and end at midnight between Dec 8 and 9 in time zone UTC -12 (the last place it's still Dec 8)
• @kcranston emailed discuss list letting people know election open
• after Dec 8: @kcranston export results from ElectionBuddy and provide to staff and steering committee
• contact all candidates with results
• report results publicly on DC and SWC blog

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Q1: Do you agree with above described responsibilities of The Carpentries organisation? Specifically:

Q1a: are there any responsibilities missing?

Q1b: is there anything The Carpentries organisation should not be responsible for?

Q2. Other comments?

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Q1: Do you agree with above described responsibilities of the Board of Directors of The Carpentries organisation? Specifically:

Q1a: Are there any responsibilities missing?

Q1b: Is there anything for which the Board should not be responsible?