Dear All,

Further to the Call for candidates sent out in November 2020, we did not receive enough applications for the open positions to be able to complete the full election process. We are launching the call again.

We remind you that there are 3 open positions: Chair, Vice-chair and Secretary.

If you have already sent your application for one of these positions, you can send it again or send us a mail (elra-SG@elda.org) to confirm that your November 2020 application is still valid.

The  Call for candidates is open from February 8th 2021 to March 8th 2021.

If you want to be a candidate, please send a message to Khalid Choukri (elra-SG@elda.org) before March 8th 2021 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).

******* 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/

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