Since the census was published a week ago, I believe it would normally be time to actually send the ballots. However, since only 7 people are running, should we add a few more days?
On Sat, Mar 14, 2020, 02:29 Mikel L. Forcada <m...@dlsi.ua.es> wrote: > Sorry folks, I'd like to be in the committee. > > Dealing with COVID-19 has sucked a lot of my time. > > Cheers > > Mikel > > > El 14/3/20 a les 0:23, Jonathan Washington ha escrit: > > пт, 13 мар. 2020 г. в 17:43, Bernard Chardonneau <b...@tuxfamily.org>: > >>> 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. > >> > > I will attest that in my case, I have *less* free time in many ways. > > Young children home from school adds much more in the way of > > distractions and interruptions from work. The second that any of us > > start getting symptoms will make work even harder, of course. > > > > -- > > Jonathan > > > > > >> -------------------------------- > >> 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 > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Apertium-stuff mailing list > > Apertium-stuff@lists.sourceforge.net > > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/apertium-stuff > > -- > Mikel L. 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