Dear SBML community,
This is a call for nominations for two new SBML Editors to replace the
outgoing editors, Claudine Chaouiya and Fengkai Zhang, beginning in
January 2020. Here is the nominations entry page:
https://forms.gle/mTksT5NPwwoDbNbq9
The nomination deadline is Friday December 13 2019 , at midnight (PST).
The SBML Editor election process is described on the following page:
http://sbml.org/Documents/SBML_Development_Process/Election_of_SBML_Editors
The SBML Editors play a key role in writing and developing SBML
specifications. SBML Editors have to be willing to invest time and
effort into evaluating proposals for changes, researching the possible
impact of those changes, thinking about how to implement the changes,
writing new text in the SBML specification, dealing with practical
matters of writing, editing, coordinating, tracking changes to
documents, etc. The work level tends to be highly uneven and
unpredictable, but on average it is not overwhelming.
The length an SBML Editor's term is 3 years. The current SBML Editors
are (in alphabetical order) Claudine Chaouiya,Matthias König, Rahuman
Sheriff, Lucian Smith and Fengkai Zhang, with Claudine and Fengkai being
replaced in 2020.
This is the nomination phase of the SBML Editor search. You may nominate
anyone (including yourself) that you believe is qualified and would act
as a good SBML Editor. Someone who has in the past served as Editor can
be elected again if at least 1 year has passed since they stopped. You
may describe your rationale in the voting form. You may fill out this
form more than once, for nominating multiple individuals.
The SBML Editors will gather the results and create a single list of all
unique candidates along with the rationales for their nominations, then
verify with each individual that they accept the nomination, and finally
issue a call for voting. The voting will take place electronically using
an online ballot form. Everyone's votes will be confidential and will
only be known to the SBML Editors, who will tally the results and verify
that each voter is a member of the SBML Forum. After a period of two
weeks, voting will be stopped, the top two nominees will be publicly
announced, and will be installed as SBML Editors
beginning with the New Year. (Voting is by a
straight majority count.)
Sarah Keating
(on behalf of SBML Editors)