[tei-council] TEI Council Chair Elections 2015

[Martin Holmes]

On 14-12-05 07:57 AM, Lou Burnard wrote:
> 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.

In principle it's good, but in practice, I think many of us would need 
to get institutional approval for the additional workload involved. And 
having a chair who really doesn't want to do it, or doesn't have time, 
is not a good thing.

Cheers,
Martin

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