Dear Colleagues, As Dr. Okada mentioned, this mail list couldn't be archived. As the administrator fixed the issue, I would like to extend the the procedure like below: And then, it seems not to be disseminated enough, please circulate this matter among your colleagues who might be interested in this matter. --------------------- The works of the SIG to form a guideline for text encoding of Japanese texts has been gradually proceeded, however, the SIG doesn't have a kind of bylaws to evaluate the guideline. Then, it is necessary to elect the members of the steering committee of the SIG in order to form and to evaluate a kind of bylaws to do it in the meantime. As we also don't have bylaws for the election so far, I would like to process it as follows: 1. Call for nominations of the members: by 15 May *Nominees should be a member of TEI-C. Please submit your nominations on the following form: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSdHP-I5D5PRcRPWG3ukietkrLfkqQ8Z6rsg... Self-nominations are welcome. 2. After circulation of the slate in this mail list (and probably on the Web site), voting by TEI-C members who want to commit to the SIG: by 31 May, This time, the voting mail will be received by the conveners. Please let us know if you have any comments. Best wishes, Kiyonori -- Kiyonori Nagasaki, Ph.D. Senior fellow International Institute for Digital Humanities: http://www.dhii.jp/