SIGTURK Meeting Minutes 11/21/2022

[SIGTURK Secretary]

Hi all,

Thanks to Mehmet Oguz Derin for helping to write the minutes!

Here are the minutes from yesterday's meeting:

• We repeated the announcement about the coming elections to appoint the executive committee for 2023. We solicit nominations for SIGTURK elections for the next year's positions of a president, a secretary, and up to 4 other officers, constituting the Executive Committee. Members can nominate other members to eligible positions and/or can self-nominate by sending a message to our Google Group (https://groups.google.com/g/sigturk) or via sending an email to the secretary (sigturk....@gmail.com) until 1st of December 2022. The elections will start December 1st, and continue until December 31st, 2022 and members will give feedback online during the voting period.
• We briefly discussed International Advisory Committee. We would need to invite people to the committee.
• Jonathan Washington expressed his interest to be on the International Advisory Committee or if we need more officers, he could potentially do that too.
• Çağrı Çöltekin proposed an idea to work on Turkic UD project. There was a brief discussion on engaging people in SIGTURK to consolidate treebanking and annotation guidelines across Turkic languages. There is a possibility to apply for funding from COST Action.  We can further discuss the idea in the issue page: https://github.com/sigturk/sigturk/issues/40
• We discussed some of issues on SIGTURK Github (https://github.com/sigturk/sigturk/issues). You can read the discussion on an issue on a respective issue page. Please, feel free to leave a comment in any issue or propose new issue if you have a suggestion!
  
• translate webpage into selected Turkic (maybe Russian) languages: https://github.com/sigturk/sigturk/issues/37
• refine sigturk objectives (home page): https://github.com/sigturk/sigturk/issues/35
• Avoid potential access restrictions: https://github.com/sigturk/sigturk/issues/38
• Send an email to the mailing list about the Turkic benchmark project: https://github.com/sigturk/sigturk/issues/39
• Migrate nominations announcement to website: https://github.com/sigturk/sigturk/issues/41
• PR, social media accounts?: https://github.com/sigturk/sigturk/issues/42
• Create Telegram chat for SIGTURK: https://github.com/sigturk/sigturk/issues/43
• We are still working on our code of conduct. Mehmet Oguz Derin agreed to write a draft. All suggestions are welcome! https://github.com/sigturk/sigturk/issues/8
• There was a confusion with time of the meeting due to change to winter time. We decided to have our next meeting on 19th of December at 17:00 (UTC) or 09:00 (UTC-8). The meeting will take place on Jitsi Meet: https://meet.jit.si/moderated/e4d46a94ff37d4b167735882da64c1af93e45da07edaf210281c22141c673faf Welcome! I also have sent Google Calendar invites. Please, refer to the Google Calendar invite time, if you have any confusions about time.
  

Kind regards,

Sardana

SIGTURK Secretary