A 2014-08-18 11:06, Mikel L. Forcada escrigué: > Dear Apertiumers: > > I have removed the copy in my temporary website. It was placed there > but I was not aware that Google was crawling that directory (I thought > it was not). > > This is serious, as I am related to the journal (book review editor, > member of the editorial board). > > By (inadvertently) placing that copy in the open, in Jim's words, I > might have also "demonstrated that I lack either knowledge of, or > respect for copyright" and therefore, this "casts a shadow over my > contributions". I should therefore be thrown into the same sack as > the contributors that candidly found a link to the paper and shared it > to help other people, as I am as responsible as them, or even more, > for that fault. > > Also, it looks like Jim is going ahead and publicly taking important > decisions on behalf of the PMC without asking the PMC, or not even the > president of the PMC, who, by the way, it is supposed to be me. > > Under these circumstances, namely (1) a rather serious copyright > blunder and (2) an overtly challenged position as president, I can > only *resign and call for a new election*, and I *officially do this > by means of this message to the list*. > > According to our by-laws, "The Assembly of Committers will elect a new > Project Management Committee", so therefore we need to renew the whole > PMC, apparently. It would be better to just replace me, but I don't > see how. > > We need to put together an Election Board of 3 committers (with one > substitute each) will run the election. We will provide the Election > Board with all the information needed to run the election (census, > etc.). > > I apologize for all the inconvenience caused.
I do not think that Mikel should resign (more on that later), but in the event of the resignation being final, I propose that in the interim period Mikel between now and the election board being convened that Mikel remains president. Fran ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ Apertium-stuff mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/apertium-stuff
