The Jenkins terminology poll 
<https://civs.cs.cornell.edu/cgi-bin/vote.pl?id=E_1bd92a17371a1ca5&akey=f82b79a50f54ad87>
 
for the “master” term replacement is open at 
https://civs.cs.cornell.edu/cgi-bin/vote.pl?id=E_1bd92a17371a1ca5&akey=f82b79a50f54ad87
 
. We would appreciate your votes! If you are interested to participate, 
please submit your choice by July 29, 14:00 PM UTC.

Thanks,
Mark Waite
On Wednesday, July 22, 2020 at 1:20:42 AM UTC-6 runx...@gmail.com wrote:

> Unfortunately I don't know how others are dealing with this issue.  But I 
> would cast my vote for one where I think the word is pretty gender neutral 
> in all languages I know. 
>
>
> On Friday, July 17, 2020 at 7:07:00 PM UTC+2 jtho...@cloudbees.com wrote:
>
>> On 7/16/20 7:52 AM, Runxia Ye wrote:
>>
>> From the shortlisted options 
>> <https://docs.google.com/document/d/1-8myIWOZZktR0HNtbFIiNA0RfDCvkfKKuNI0C3wcvbo/edit#heading=h.nuysq0m8yl6n>
>>  
>> selected by the governance board, I see words that in many languages have 
>> both a male and a female variant. The "default" version implicitly implies 
>> the the "male" variant. I know we are already taking a lot of different 
>> aspects into account, so I want to bring to attention this implicit 
>> association/unconscious bias that we may be having when choosing some of 
>> these words.
>>
>> That's a good point. Do you happen to have any suggestions on how to deal 
>> with this issue? I know a little bit of Spanish and am familiar with 
>> gendered nouns there. I don't have any idea how people are addressing bias 
>> in these languages.
>>
>> Jeff
>>
>

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