Re: [tei-council] Whither TEI Sessions

Hi-- I haven't been jumping to the fore mostly because I haven't been on Council terribly long, but: * I like Presentation #1 and I'm happy to help out with it in any way that works. I'm a little worried, by the way, about Martin Mueller's peeps in his latest messages about his sense that Council's role ought to change--he seems to think that maintaining the Guidelines is problematic or too limited. I really want to help counter that perspective: the Guidelines are important, difficult, require a LOT of conversation, debate, and reflection, and careful writin. Can I talk about that as a Newbie on Council who is very impressed with the effort we've been putting in? I'd hate to see us stuck with other roles that outsiders from Council might think better suited to us, if people don't understand the serious work we're already doing(!) * I'm happy to be a stooge in the audience, too--I'm good at interjecting pointed questions--but Presentation #1 has a strong pull for me. Thanks, Elisa On Tue, Sep 6, 2016 at 11:52 AM, James Cummings wrote:

I've not volunteered since I'm already speaking/doing too much at the conference this year. However, I'd happily be one of the stooges in the audience ready and willing to ask leading questions or similar if necessary.

I would note that none of these really answer what Martin Mueller has proposed as "Whither TEI: The Next Thirty Years".

-James

On 06/09/16 15:14, Raffaele Viglianti wrote:

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If nobody is passionate about presentation #1, I'd be happy to take it on. Maybe someone with more experience could back me up on the release part (particularly re: Oxygen components) Raff

On Tue, Sep 6, 2016 at 10:10 AM, Hugh Cayless wrote:

Reminder: we need at least 2 more volunteers to present during the Council

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session. Don't all shout at once!

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1E1SEMfxvhhm_ I9fAwFzOMXOl6mLy02o10aJWQt7BfhM/edit?usp=sharing

On Thu, Sep 1, 2016 at 11:27 AM, Lou Burnard < lou.burnard@retired.ox.ac.uk wrote:

I certainly have no objection, though I think I can predict the outcome.

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In other mail from the Board I see that the TEI's problems are largely because "social facts" often contradict "actual facts", and there clearly is an established "social fact" that customization is hard and unnecessary, even though we keep saying it's neither. So we need either to find a better way of saying it, or give up. Not the least irritating aspect of this is that those who refuse to do customisation then proceed to reproach the TEI system with being too large and complex, or not sufficiently customized to their

needs.

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On 01/09/16 16:17, Hugh Cayless wrote:

Your name's on it! Do you think doing that sort of survey would be

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useful?

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I'd kind of like to know what the TEI user on the street thinks about

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the

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question of whether to pick a standard schema vs. customize your own.

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On Thu, Sep 1, 2016 at 11:01 AM, Lou Burnard < lou.burnard@retired.ox.ac.uk> wrote:

Happy to volunteer for number 2 !

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Sent from my Honor Mobile

-------- Original Message -------- Subject: [tei-council] Whither TEI Sessions From: Hugh Cayless To: TEI Council CC:

I've tried to distill the ideas in the Google Doc into 3 presentations. Can you all take a look and see if you agree with my choices? We'll need volunteers for each talk, which will entail writing and giving a short presentation (definitely under 10 minutes, 5 would be ideal). We also need a moderator. The rest of us should be available to the presenters as support both before and during the session.

I think all of the talks would benefit from canvassing the community beforehand. I did a little thinking about what a survey of

customization

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usage might look like and put some sample questions in there.

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Any feedback from the community should be solicited ASAP, I think,

since

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we're less than 4 weeks out.

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