training recommendations

[Lou Burnard]

On Mon, Aug 26, 2002 at 08:27:42AM -0400, John Unsworth wrote:
> Last week, the training subcommittee recommended that:
> 
> 1. Julia Flanders be authorized to provide training at the annual members' 
> meeting

Fine by me.

> 
> 2. the training committee work with Isogen to adapt their proposal to our 
> needs.

Certainly needs some adaptation, so also fine with me.

> 
> 3. the training committee work with Lou Burnard and Sebastian Rahtz to see 
> if they could arrange a "train the trainers" session, to run concurrently 
> with Julia Flanders' training sessions in Chicago.

Impossible for me to participate, if it's concurrent with Julia's
session, tho Sebastian might be able to. I'll ask him when I see him
(in a couple of days).

However, for the record, a "train the trainers" session (a) wasn't
quite what I meant in my conversation with Geoff and (b) would be
pretty nugatory if it excluded Julia and Syd! 

What i had in mind in my hasty discussion with Geoff, (and it was very
hasty so no blame is attached to the misunderstanding) was more a
kind of review/comparison of notes/exploration of common ground
amongst the different preople who currently do TEI training. I think
such a meeting would be useful to the community as a whole. I didn't
think of it as a "lick the trainers into shape/define the party line"
session, which is what "train-the-trainers" sounds like to me.

So my suggestion (unless Sebastian disagrees) would be to hold off on
the third item above for the moment: maybe we could instead expect
discussion of it in the session I've already volunteered Geoff for in
the programme for the members meeting itself.

<p>Lou

<p>> 
> all the votes received from the Council during the voting period were in 
> the affirmative, on all points, so the recommendations are accepted.  Julia 
> (or Syd, on her behalf) should confirm with Martin Mueller that space will 
> be available, and confirm the location, and the number of seats.  That 
> information, along with terms of enrollment and a description of the 
> training opportunity should then go to Lou (for the Web site) and Tone 
> Merete (for circulation by email to members).  Members should be given 
> preferential registration, perhaps during an early registration 
> period.  Peter Robinson should also be provided with a copy of the training 
> announcement, for the meeting program.
> 
> Thanks very much to the training subcommittee for pulling this together, 
> and thanks in advance to Martin Mueller for working to accommodate the 
> event.
> 
> John Unsworth
>