[Foundation-l] Vice President?

[Jussi-Ville Heiskanen]

On Wed, Feb 1, 2012 at 6:20 AM, Stuart West <stuwest at gmail.com> wrote:
> That's kind of an American thing I think.  Many organizations here have Vice Presidents, but instead of having a President have someone with the title CEO or Executive Director instead.
>
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> On Jan 31, 2012, at 8:17 PM, MZMcBride wrote:
>
>> Hi.
>>
>> Erik took on the temporary title "VP of Engineering and Product Development"
>> after Danese left.[1] Just recently it was codified on wmfwiki.[2]
>>
>> I don't really think much of job titles anywhere, but it seems strange to
>> have a Vice President without having a President.[3] Mostly just noting for
>> posterity.
>>
>> MZMcBride
>>
>> [1] http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikitech-l/2011-June/054040.html
>> [2] https://wikimediafoundation.org/w/index.php?diff=78986&oldid=78985
>> [3] https://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Staff_and_contractors

The problem you have, there, is thinking "president" is a title in
some historical inalienable sense. It isn't. Grammatically it can
still be used in the plain sense as denoting "he who presides".


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