Sorry for not saying hello before
Elisabeth
At 22:15 20.08.02 -0400, you wrote:
>Thanks, Geoff, for your note (comments below). I hope others will check in
>at least to say hello, and I hope Chuck might say a word about the
>Getty/museums version of this same conversation/conundrum.
>
>
>>1. Agree on a chair. We might also agree on a system for managing notes.
>>My vote is that we rotate note taking.
>
>Proceedings of this email list will be (are, have been) archived at
>http://lists.village.virginia.edu/lists_archive/adhoc/, but note-taking at
>face-to-face meetings will be needed.
>
>>2. Agree on a schedule. Harold Short had suggestions regarding some
>>deadlines that would suit the ALLC, in particular the idea that we have
>>something for the mid-academic year ALLC meeting.
>
>Let's try to establish those deadlines now, or in the next week or so, and
>include conference calls, face to face meetings, draft recommendations,
>final recommendations.
>
>>3. Have a series of conference calls. The chair would coordinate these.
>>If the chair doesn't have experience running voice conferences then we
>>could nominate someone else for the conferences.
>
>We need to find a volunteer host for these calls. Does anyone have
>institutional resources available for this sort of thing?
>
>>4. Write a first draft of a proposal to get wider input.
>
>The immediate audience for whatever we do in the next eight months will be
>the executive bodies of the four organizations participating--but there
>will certainly be others who will be interested.
>
>>5. Identify the processes needed to get parts of the proposal through the
>>respective organizations. Based on this we may need to meet and we can
>>allocate responsibilities to members of the adhoc group to take their
>>sections through their organizations. This will take some careful choreography.
>
>I think instead we should, at least initially, concentrate on what are the
>issues to be addressed, and divvy those up---publications, conferences,
>business and legal services, member services.....others?
>
>>7. Hopefully it all comes together in Georgia at the next ACH/ALLC.
>
>Actually, our first deadline will be the May TEI Board meeting....
>
>>__________________
>>
>>If you all agree to at least the first step then we need people to
>>nominate themselves or others to be chair. Do not be modest! We need a
>>chair soon who is willing to herd us by phone, by face2face and by e-mail.
>
>Indeed, please.
>
>John
HD Dr. Elisabeth Burr
Fakultät 2 / Romanistik
Gerhard-Mercator-Universität
Geibelstr. 41
47058 Duisburg
http://www.uni-duisburg.de/FB3/ROMANISTIK/PERSONAL/Burr/
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