training recommendations

[Geoffrey Rockwell]

Dear all,

Regarding Lou's clarification on the training he and I talked about, 
he is right and the idea is better expressed by his note. As he 
mentioned this will have to wait until Sebastian is back and can join 
the conversation. My apologies for choosing an inappropriate title, 
though I rather like the "lick the trainers into shape" idea :-)

  I therefore concur with Lou's suggestion that we hold off for the 
moment on this one.

Yours,

Geoffrey R.

>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.
>
>Lou