William L. Thomson Jr. wrote:

> On Mon, 2008-05-19 at 21:13 +0100, Steve Long wrote:
>>
>> Well I'd argue Council is Executive body since the main work of the
>> organisation is the technology (with perhaps infra as CTO) but that's an
>> aside.
> 
> Infra would never qualify as CTO. But would fall under the Council's
> sphere as they do now. Short of for funding requests, which the council
> doesn't oversee. Infra would be CIO if anything.
> 
> Just for reference
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chief_technical_officer
>
OK so infra wouldn't be CTO.
 
> The only diff here, being our CTO is a council or body. We could suggest
> to the council, they appoint a lead. But that's really up to them. I
> have no problem with the CTO as it applies to getting being a group
> comprised of several. Versus a single person.
>
Yeah but I disagree that the Council is limited to CTO, since the whole pupose 
of Gentoo is to develop software. I'd argue the Trustees are a Supervisory 
Board, and the Council an Executive Board within the two-tier model.

The portage team strike me more as the CTO in that setup though I admit your 
knowledge of these titles outweighs mine ;)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Supervisory_board
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