Team: the Arabeyes active volunteers

Core (or core-team): Arabeyes' internal meta-project management team

Volunteer: someone who voluntarily undertakes a task/work.

CVS holding account members: those with valid cvs access for a minimum of 3 months prior to elections.

3rd-party: used loosely to indicate a third party (company, organization, group) which is interested in working with Arabeyes (in sharing resources, developers, contacts, etc) to achieve the same ultimate goal of spreading and preaching linux/unix to the Arab world.

contributors: encompasses developers, translators and anyone who assists in any capacity.

*ix: used to mean linux/unix of all flavors.