Dear All,
First of all, we hope you are all safe in these difficult times.
As you may already know, the joint ISCA-ELRA Special Interest Group on Under-resourced Languages (SIGUL) has been created in 2017.
The first Board was elected in January 2018 (current Board members are: Claudia Soria, Laurent Besacier and Sakriani Sakti) and according to ELRA and ISCA by-laws is in charge for two years. The end of the term being on January 2020, it is now time to organize the elections to renew the Board members.
The elected members of the SIG shall consist of a chairperson, a co-chair and a secretary. All elected members should commit themselves to become individual members of either ISCA or ELRA associations. The term of all elected board members of the SIG shall be 2 years. They may be re-elected but consecutive appointments are limited to four consecutive terms.
The schedule of the election can be found here: http://www.elra.info/en/sig/sigul/
Currently, the *Call for candidates* is open (from now to November 30th 2020) : if you want to be a candidate, please send a message to choukri@elda.org before Nov 30th with a short bio and a statement/manifesto that explains why you want to be an elected member of SIGUL board (please write or keep ‘SIGUL election’ in the mail subject).
We hope you will take an active part to this election and we are looking forward to seeing you during coming SIGUL events whether virtual or onsite (ALPS virtual winter school in 2021, next joint CCURL-SLTU workshop that will be organized in 2022).
Our mailing-list sigul@list.elra.info now gathers 334 members and we have been organizing several events or activities for the past 3 years. You can find the the last ISCA SIG reports for 2017-2018 and 2019-2020 in the SIGUL page (http://www.elra.info/en/sig/sigul/) on the ELRA web site.
Best Regards
Khalid Choukri, in charge of supervising these elections for the SIGUL committee