Glossary

Glossary of terms used in Freegle Ltd documents

B

• Board - elected group of people (Directors)
• Board Discussion Group - Yahoo group, used as the working space for Directors to discuss business and hold Board meetings

C

• Candidates - nominees who have confirmed ((usually to the Returning Officer) that they are willing to stand for election
• Central - Freegle UK Central Yahoo group http://freegle.it/Central
• Central Mod Team - team of Volunteers who own and moderate Central
• Chairman - Chair of the Board
• Constitution - the framework of rules adopted by Freegle UK, replaced by the Rules of Freegle Ltd

D

• Director - One of the elected Directors that comprise the Freegle Board

F

• FD - Freegle Direct
• Firefox - A web browser alternative to Internet Explorer (IE) which is needed if you want to use ModTools (and is a great browser anyway!).
• Freegle - Freegle Ltd
• Freegle Direct - the interface provided on the website for members of groups to use instead of using the Yahoo groups
• Freegle Ltd - the association/network of affiliated groups (not the individual groups themselves)
• Freegle Member- a voting, paid up member of Freegle Ltd
• Freegle UK - the previous unincorporated association/network of affiliated groups
• Freegle Wiki - this! http://wiki.ilovefreegle.org

G

• GAT - Group Affiliation Team, the team that processes applications for affiliating groups to Freegle
• Geeks - fond and irreverent term for our brilliant IT development and management team.
• GLC - Group Launch Coordinator
• GM - Group Mentor, person appointed by GAT to assist a new group
• GO - Group Owner, someone who has full moderation privileges on Yahoo Groups (shown by a blue crown next to the person's ID in the membership list of each group)

I

• IPS - Industrial Provident Society, the organisational structure adopted by Freegle Ltd

M

• MM - Message Maker, neat addition to make it easier for group members to post messages
• Mod - Moderator, someone who has moderation privileges on a Yahoo Group (shown by a green crown next the person's ID in the membership list of each group). We also use the term to include Group Owners when talking generally.
• ModTools - An 'add-on' that Volunteers can use to help run their group. It provides a layer of extra facilities on top of the basic Yahoo functions and makes it oh-so-much-easier to moderate. It replaced the Mod Plug-in after Yahoo introduced Neo groups.

N

• Neo - an updated format for the Yahoo Groups facility, introduced Summer-Winter 2013
• Nominees - people put forward to stand for election to a post

O

• Ombudsman - one of the appointed team of two Ombudsmen
• owner-address - the email address of a Yahoo Group moderating team

P

• PLI - Public Liability Insurance

R

• Reps - the elected representatives of Freegle UK
• Returning Officer - one of the appointed team of two Returning Officers, abbreviated sometimes to RO
• RO email address - returning_officer@ilovefreegle.org
• Rules - the primary document for running Freegle Ltd, which has replaced the previous Constitution

S

• Secretary - Company Secretary or Secretary to the Board
• Self-Nomination - volunteers nominating themselves as candidates
• Skype chat - online messaging system used by the Board for Board meetings
• Snaply - mobile app which provides an access method to Freegle groups
• Society - Freegle Ltd (term used within the Rules)
• Subject Line - A line in an e-mail that indicates the subject of the message

T

• Treasurer - appointed position by Board, remit Finance Role Remits
• Trashnothing - different access method for group members to join and use a group
• Trello - online message board used by Board for action points from meetings etc - https://trello.com/

V

• Volunteer - an owner, moderator or volunteer of a group affiliated to Freegle, or a nationally recognised Volunteer

W

• Wiki - this Freegle wiki
• Working Groups / WG - Central groups, open to all Freegle Volunteers, which discuss and organise how the Freegle organisation works.