Replied inline... On Wed, 26 Feb 2020 at 10:50, Mikel L. Forcada <[email protected]> wrote:
> (1) According to our by-laws [http://wiki.apertium.org/wiki/Bylaws], > article 8, "The Assembly of Committers elects the Project Management > Committee of Apertium every two years or whenever a vacancy occurs". The > last election occurred in December 2017. We are therefore late. > We're late, but I would say with good reason. Critically, who are the "Assembly of Committers" now? Since we moved to Github, access has been granted much looser and faster (which is a good thing), because we can grant access to specific repos instead of the whole organization. But this means the concept in the bylaws no longer holds. We have 99 members (1 bot) of the Github organization https://github.com/orgs/apertium/people and 31 contributors who aren't direct members https://github.com/orgs/apertium/outside-collaborators There also used to be a lot of people listed on https://github.com/orgs/apertium/pending_members who never responded to the invite after the conversion, but that list has been wiped it seems. But, I guess for this election we can just decide responding to the census counts in itself. This (and other things) must be fixed by the new PMC, though. (2) According to article 23a, "An Election Board of 3 committers (with one > substitute each) will run the election.". We need to appoint this board, > preferrably made up of people who are not running for the election. I would > appreciate it very much if six committers volunteered to run it and one of > them led the process. > We can use https://heliosvoting.org/ to ensure even those running the election can't see who votes for who - then we just need someone to do the census and set up the election once candidates report in. (3) I announce will not run for president this time (I haven't decided > about running for a position in the PMC yet). My role in Apertium in the > last year has been testimonial and I believe it is time for someone else > who is more active to chair the PMC. > In that case, I would like to run for president, with the express purpose of initially shaking things up - overhaul the bylaws and ideally move to a formal non-profit organization structure, and actually put in the work to do those things. -- Tino Didriksen
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