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Glossary of terms used in Freegle Ltd documents

Contents: Top - 0–9 A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z

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
  • 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

  • Mod - Moderator, someone who has moderation privileges on a Yahoo Group (shown by a green crown next the person's ID int he 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.