call for participation (draft for comment)

[John Unsworth]

At 06:16 AM 2/7/2002 +0100, Tomaz Erjavec wrote:

>Sorry if this is already a bit late in the day:
>
>  > The Text Encoding Initiative Consortium has been funded by the National
>
>Hope I have my English tenses right, but isn't it "is being funded"

Depends on how you look at it.   Either is correct, grammatically.

>The workgroup will be funded for one start-up meeting with editors
>  > and experts only; one mid-term meeting with project representatives; one
>  > final meeting with editors and experts; participation by a technical 
> writer
>  > for four months; participation by TEI editors and the TEI executive
>  > director for two months; travel to two one-day meetings for 8 people; and
>  > travel to one two-day meeting for 18 people.
>
>The above says that the meetings will be funded, and travel to these
>meetings. I'm not sure if this means accommodation and per-diem are
>covered for the attendees or not.

Travel and expenses; I'll specify.

<p>>  > by Friday, February 15th,

<p><p>>That is only a week, can't it be extended at least a bit more?

Sure--we can say the end of February.

John