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In fact, the perception has bothered Oxer so much that at tomorrow's AGM he has proposed a motion to rename the committee as the council.


"The word 'committee gives the idea that it is work-oriented whereas the term 'council' means that it is more representative," he said.

Oxer said there had been periods during the three years when he found himself stuck in the midst of conflict, with both parties being close friends.

At such times, he said that being a person of conciliatory nature himself, he had used the example of free and open source software and pointed out that the openness, sharing and diversity which characterised the software should also extend to the personal level.

Oxer said the one memory he would take away from the 2008 conference was the giving away of laptops by the One Laptop Per Child project to a number of developers.

This was done to enable them to develop anything they liked for the laptop; the project has as its aim the provision of easy-to-use laptops to poor children in a number of countries.

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