Reminder to WG members to vote in the Scheme plebiscite

[John Cowan]

Members of WG1 and WG2, and lurkers on the mailing lists:

Remember that you are all members of the Scheme community and are entitled
to vote. There is no reason for WG1 members to have scruples against
voting: after all, candidates for political office vote for themselves,
and there isn't any reason why you shouldn't help determine whether
the proposed standard that you helped to develop makes it through the
charter-defined process.

Details on voting can be found at
<http://lists.scheme-reports.org/pipermail/scheme-reports/2013-April/003299.html>,
which is reproduced here for your convenience. Remember to vote at
scheme-...@scheme-reports.org, not here, or it doesn't count.

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The Scheme Language Steering Committee (SLSC) is pleased to
request your vote on whether the ninth draft R7RS produced by
Working Group 1 should be endorsed by the SLSC. Your vote is due
by the end of Sunday, May 13, 2013.

The purpose of this ballot is for you to register your views
about the work of Working Group 1. In particular, you are being
asked whether the ninth draft of R7RS-small at
<http://trac.sacrideo.us/wg/raw-attachment/wiki/WikiStart/r7rs-draft-9.pdf>,
Chibi Scheme, the sample implementation at
<​https://code.google.com/p/chibi-scheme>, and the test cases at
<​https://code.google.com/p/chibi-scheme/source/browse/#hg%2Ftests>
satisfy the requirements of the WG1 charter at
<​http://scheme-reports.org/2009/working-group-1-charter.html>
(excluding the section labeled "Timeline"). Please send your
vote to the scheme-reports mailing list
<http://lists.scheme-reports.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/scheme-reports>
between Friday, April 19, 2013, and the deadline of Sunday, May
13, 2013, inclusive.

Please use the following form when you post your vote:

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R6RS ratification or the 2009 Steering Committee election):
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the way you did here. Anyone voting "no" is particularly
encouraged to complete this section.

This ballot is a variant of the registration and ballot forms
used for the R6RS ratification process and for the Steering
Committee election. Both registration and voting are combined
into a single form. Note that the entire contents of the ballot
will be published.

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The Scheme Language Steering Committee
Will Clinger
Marc Feeley
Chris Hanson
Jonathan Rees
Olin Shivers


--
John Cowan http://ccil.org/~cowan co...@ccil.org
The work of Henry James has always seemed divisible by a simple dynastic
arrangement into three reigns: James I, James II, and the Old Pretender.
--Philip Guedalla