[Sigwac] SIGWAC elections

[Miloš Jakubíček]

Dear Roland and Egon,

thank you for all the work done as well as for being keen on continuing for
another two years.
I think that if there was anything resulting from a couple of discussions
we held over the past two years,
then it was a clear view that everybody wants to keep SIGWAC going on
(despite all of us being busy etc.).

So, thank you -- and 'aye' ;)

Best
Milos


Milos Jakubicek

CEO, Lexical Computing
Brno, CZ | Brighton UK
http://www.lexicalcomputing.com
http://www.sketchengine.co.uk


On Sat, 24 Nov 2018 at 14:06, Roland Schäfer <roland.schaefer at fu-berlin.de>
wrote:

> Dear SIGWAC community,
>
> Egon and I apologise for a slight delay, but we hereby announce that our
> first term as President and Secretary of SIGWAC is over.
>
> We have decided to run again for a second term (Egon as Secretary, me as
> President). Furthermore, we analysed the discussion about the future of
> SIGWAC (see the archives of this list) and – if re-elected – would like
> to revitalise SIGWAC by continuing the tradition of WAC workshops
> without major changes in direction. However, we intend to ensure a
> substantial number of submissions through strategic co-location and
> joint workshops with other initiatives and interest groups (most likely
> not ACL SIGs, though). We think it might be best to forgo a strict
> annual or bi-annual rhythm. Instead, it might be best to organise WAC
> workshops whenever the opportunity is right. In addition, we intend to
> allow for additional workshops with alternative focuses (such as events
> with a strong emphasis on theoretical linguistics) to be announced as
> "endorsed by SIGWAC" if there are SIGWAC members involved in the event's
> organising committee and the event is clearly related to the
> construction and/or use of web corpora.
>
> The upcoming term will end on 31 July 2020.
>
> Continuing the informal election process of previous years, we invite
> you to run as a candidate and/or vote in the following manner:
>
> 1. Please inform the community (by posting to this list) until 30
> November 2018 if you wish to run as an alternative candidate for either
> of the two offices. We recommend running as a team of candidates for the
> offices of President and Secretary, but that is in no way a requirement.
>
> 2. In case no alternative candidates surface until 30 November 2018,
> please only cast a vote (by sending an email to this list by 7 December
> 2018) if it's 'nay', i.e., if you think Egon and I should not get a
> second term. Silence will be understood as an 'aye' vote. Should there
> be alternative candidates, we will organise a more formal election process.
>
> Best regards,
> Roland Schäfer (acting President of SIGWAC)
> Egon Stemle (acting Secretary of SIGWAC)
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