2015Q3 Reports: SIG Officer

26-Jun-2015, Hermann Ney (last update: July 03, 2015)

SUMMARY:

• There is a total of 19 SIGs

 (including the new SIGSLAV, founded on 27-Nov-2014).

• According to the SIG creation guidelines, a SIG should hold elections

 every two years, which is the case for the majority of the SIGs.

• There are seven SIGs that do not follow the two-year election pattern:

 SIGBioMed, SIGFSM, SIGLEX, SIGNLL, SIGPARSE, SIGSEM, SIGWAC.
 Apart from SIGLEX, all these SIGs have a three-year term in their
 constitution.

• There is an ongoing activity to create a new SIG for Uralic languages

 (Francis Tyers, Tommi Piranen).