> 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?
The election board is currently working on verifying Tino's census and we will announce schedule-related information when we have it. On Sat, Mar 14, 2020 at 6:10 PM Scoop Gracie <scoopgra...@gmail.com> wrote: > 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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