[tei-council] TEI Council Chair Elections 2015

[Lou Burnard]

Well, like Barkis, I am willing. Also more than happy to do so in a 
competitive field!  I quite like the idea that everyone should stand as 
candidate actually.


  On 05/12/14 15:51, Hugh Cayless wrote:
> 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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