+1 on all points. However, if any Committers have covid or an immediate family member with it, I do think we should postpone it.
On Fri, Mar 13, 2020, 14:43 Bernard Chardonneau <b...@tuxfamily.org> wrote: > > Date: Thu, 12 Mar 2020 22:20:41 +0100 > From: Tino Didriksen < > m...@tinodidriksen.com> > > To: "[apertium-stuff]" <apertium-stuff@lists.sourceforge.net> > > Reply-To: apertium-stuff@lists.sourceforge.net > > Subject: Re: [Apertium-stuff] Apertium elections coming up. > > Pièce(s) jointes(s) probable(s)> > > > > So far, these people have indicated they want to run for PMC members: > > - Jonathan Washington > > - Francis Tyers > > - Tino Didriksen > > - Scoop Gracie (pseudonym) > > - Tanmai Khanna > > - Xavi Ivars > > ...with Mikel L. Forcada as a maybe. > > > > These are standing for PMC President: > > - Francis Tyers > > - Tino Didriksen > > > > These have volunteered for being the election board: > > - Sevilay Bayatlı > > - Hèctor Alòs i Font > > - Daniel Swanson > > > > If Mikel moves from maybe to certain, then we have the minimum 7 members. > > And then the election would be simply to determine who is the president - > > in which case, I would yield to Francis so that we can simply avoid > needing > > to run the election. If we get more than 7 candidates so that we need to > > run the full election anyway, I'll contest the presidency. > > > > Alternatively, given how the world is shutting down from Covid-19, maybe > we > > should just postpone the election until things have settled down for > > everyone. > > > > -- Tino Didriksen > > > > > > Well, if there is exactly the needed number of PMC candidates for having > each > of them elected and only one volonteer for president, no problem if the > actual > PMCs or the actual president or the election board or both of them decides > to > declare the results without running the election, I would not find it > stupid. > > But using the pretext of the Covid-19 to postpone the election, I find that > very strange. > > In different countries of the world, at least in Europe. People are called > to > stay at home instead of moving somewhere to work and going back home later > every working day. For some ot them, the reason is just to keep at home > children > who don't go to school. > > Staying at home, gives free time that we don't have when working. > > In France, from next Monday, from mother school to university, pupils and > students will have to stay at home, but in different schools teachers are > called th stay in contact with then, and to use internet to give them some > work. > > For persons working in enterprises, when it is possible, they are called to > stay at home and to use a computer with Internet for working. > > So, this illness may be an occasion for some people who move each day for > working or studing to stay at home and to go on working or studing > (certainly > in a less intensive way) using a computer and Internet. > > For a free software developer, using a computer and Internet is nothing > new. > > Participating to the PMC election, for people who just vote, that will mean > receiving 2 or 3 emails, and sending one email for voting. > > That is not a big work and doing that when moving every day to the working > ou studing place or when staying at home will not change a lot. > > And as I said earlier, having to stay at home may even give more free time. > > If there was hundred of million peoples in the world ill due to covid-19 > at the same time (5 % of the world population or more), that would be a > valuable reason to postpone this election. But we are very very far from > it, and in an Apertium PMC election, there are generally only around 30 > persons voting. > > > -------------------------------- > Bernard Chardonneau (France) > Phone : [33] 9 72 36 32 90 > GSM phone : [33] 7 69 46 16 31 > > An alternative Apertium translation website : > http://apertiumtrad.tuxfamily.org > > Multilingual websites for my free softwares : > http://libremail.free.fr and http://libremail.tuxfamily.org > http://cyloop.tuxfamily.org (mainly translated with Apertium) > > My general website (in french only) > http://bech.free.fr > > > _______________________________________________ > Apertium-stuff mailing list > Apertium-stuff@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/apertium-stuff >
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