[tei-council] Electing a TEI Technical Council Chair for next year.

[James Cummings]

On 30/10/13 22:16, Sebastian Rahtz wrote:
> An alternative to this system being proposed is that  we should each
> rank all the other members of the Council in order of our preference of
> their being chair. So instead of people volunteering to stand or not, we all
> agree to do it if asked by our peers.
>
> I don't expect anyone to agree with me, but thought
> I'd mention that there are other ways of finding a chair....

While I'd be happy with that, I don't think it is fair on the 
individuals concerned.  We are all volunteers to the TEI and all 
have different commitments, duties, and responsibilities in our 
home institutions. Being chair does, I would suggest, add a 
certain amount of work on top (mainly 
organizational/administrative). They may not have time to do that 
or particularly dislike that sort of work. So let's say we did it 
that way and we all voted for personX because we like them. But 
they are really busy at their home institution and actively have 
no desire to take on the extra work; then the TEI suffers. 
Instead I'd still suggest it is the better course of action to 
remove from the running those people who actively *don't* want to 
do it (for whatever reason) and encourage anyone else who might 
wish to stand for election to do so. And I would encourage anyone 
who does wish to stand to do so.

-James

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Dr James Cummings, James.Cummings at it.ox.ac.uk
Academic IT Services, University of Oxford