[EuroPython-Announce] EuroPython Society: List of Board Candidates

[Marc-Andre Lemburg]

At this year’s EuroPython Society General Assembly (GA), planned for
October, we will vote in a new board of the EuroPython Society for the
term 2021/2022.


List of Board Candidates
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The EPS bylaws require one chair, one vice chair and 2 - 7 board
members. The following candidates have stated their willingness to work
on the EPS board. We are presenting them here (in alphabetical order by
surname).

We will be updating this list in the days before the GA. Please send in
any nominations or self-nominations to board at europython.eu.

Please note that our bylaws do not restrict nominations to people on
this list. It is even possible to self-nominate or nominate other
candidates at the GA itself. However, in the interest of giving members
a better chance to review the candidate list, we’d like to encourage all
nominations to be made before the GA.

The following fine folks have expressed their desire to run as a group
for the next EPS board elections: Patrick Arminio, Prof. Martin
Christen, Nicolás Demarchi, Raquel Dou, Anders Hammarquist, Cheukting
Ho, Francesco Pierfederici and Silvia Uberti. They have a good track
record of working well together and share a common vision for the
betterment of the EPS via strengthening ties to the larger Python
community. They will present their plans and vision during the GA.

Marc-André Lemburg, who has been serving on the EPS board since 2012 and
as its chair since 2017 is not running for the board again, as already
announced in last year’s GA. He’s looking forward to enjoying the
conference from the attendee perspective again.

Please see the full blog post for the board candidate introductions:

https://www.europython-society.org/list-of-eps-board-candidates-for-2021-2022/


Chair / Vice-Chair Nominations
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Raquel Dou is running for the chair position and Artur Czepiel for the
vice chair position.


What does the EPS Board do ?
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The EPS board runs the day-to-day business of the EuroPython Society,
including running the EuroPython conference events. It is allowed to
enter contracts for the society and handle any issues that have not been
otherwise regulated in the bylaws or by the General Assembly. Most
business is handled on the board’s Telegram group or by email on the
board mailing list. Board meetings are usually run as conference calls.

It is important to note that the EPS board is an active board, i.e. the
board members are expected to put in a significant amount of time and
effort towards the goals of the EPS and for running the EuroPython
conference. This usually means 200+ hours work over a period of one
year, with most of this being needed in the last six months before the
conference. Many board members put in even more work to make sure that
the EuroPython conferences become a success.

Board members are generally expected to take on leadership roles within
the EuroPython Workgroups in order to facilitate good communication and
quick decision making. They should be passionate about EuroPython, the
Python community and working in a team of volunteers.


Help spread the word
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Please help us spread this message by sharing it on your social
networks as widely as possible. Thank you !

Link to the blog post:

https://www.europython-society.org/list-of-eps-board-candidates-for-2021-2022/

Tweet:

https://twitter.com/europythons/status/1441004159000621058

Thanks,
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EuroPython Society
https://www.europython-society.org/