workgroup charter

[John Unsworth]

Here's a draft of a re-usable workgroup charter.  I've used David's 
workgroup as the example, but you can probably see how the form would be 
altered for other cases.  Does this charter say enough?

John
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TEI Workgroup Charter:

The Rules and Recommendations for TEI Work Group Procedures (TEI Document 
EDW54, revised January, 2002) states:

"The technical work of the Text Encoding Initiative (TEI) is performed by 
work groups composed of volunteers from the community of those using 
electronic texts for research. The work groups are the core of the TEI, and 
the quality of their work is crucial."

and

"Work groups are formed by the TEI Council whenever the TEI undertakes a 
new work item which does not fit into the area of responsibility of any 
existing work group. They serve until they have finished all their 
outstanding work items, or until discharged by the Council."

Full text of these rules and recommendations are available on the TEI web 
site, at http://www.tei-c.org/Drafts/edw54.html, and they should be 
consulted by all members of TEI workgroups.

This workgroup has been chartered for calendar year 2002 by the TEI Council 
to investigate the following topic:

Stand-Off Markup, Xlink and Xptr

The TEI Council has appointed the following person as chair of this workgroup:
David Durand
Brown University & ingenta plc
Providence, USA
david at dynamicdiagrams.com

The budget for this workgroup, during the year in which it is chartered, is:

US $8,000.

A preliminary report to the TEI Council are expected in time for the May, 
2002 meeting of the TEI Board, and a further progress report should also be 
made in time for the annual members' meeting, in October, 2002.   Unless 
the TEI Council renews this charter at its January meeting, it will 
automatically terminate on January 31, 2003.