[tei-council] TEI Council Chair Elections 2015

[Hugh Cayless]

With the caveat that if Lou is willing to do it, you should vote for him,
I'll stand for chair. I think there ought to be a pool of candidates for
democracy's sake.

On Tue, Dec 2, 2014 at 9:16 AM, James Cummings <James.Cummings at it.ox.ac.uk>
wrote:

> Hi TEI Technical Council,
>
> As you from last year the TEI Technical Council Chair is elected
> at the first teleconference to be held in 2015. The bylaws say:
>
> "The Chair of the Technical Council shall be elected by the
> voting Members of the TEI-C Technical Council from its membership
> and shall serve as the chief technical officer of the Consortium.
> If no Technical Council Member is able or willing to assume the
> chair, the Technical Council may request the Board of Directors
> to second one of its elected members to the role, or it may
> nominate a non-elected individual."
>
> I may have mentioned that I won't be standing as chair this year
> I've done it a number of years in a row and hope we've
> successfully migrated to the annual election system for it.
>
> In general we follow this vague procedure, but we're about a week
> behind schedule:
>
> http://wiki.tei-c.org/index.php/TEI-Council-FAQ#How_is_the_TEI_Technical_Council_Chair_elected.3F
>
> If you are interested in the duties of the chair, they include
> those listed at:
> http://wiki.tei-c.org/index.php/TEI-Council-FAQ#TEI_Technical_Council_Chair
>
> If any of you have any questions about whether you would make a
> good chair, I'm happy to answer them offlist if you want.
>
> Anyone who does want to be the chair should think about it and
> then send a short statement announcing your candidacy to the
> Council mailing list.  Let's say you have until midnight in your
> local timezone on *Friday 5 December* to do so. We're all
> reasonable adults and so I don't think there should be any
> animosity if multiple people run...in fact I'd encourage it, so
> don't be put off if someone announces their candidacy before you.
>
> Happy to answer questions both on and off the list, and I
> encourage you all to run. :-)  (If everyone did run, and voted
> for themselves, then I guess as the only person not running I'd
> have the casting vote!)
>
> -James
>
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