Request for approval: TEI Training Course at Rhodes University

[Alejandro Bia]

Dear all,

I think we must support all initiatives to spread the methods and 
technologies we believe in with the same spirit of an evangelizing mission. 
So I see no reasons to object. In fact, it looks like a very interesting 
hands-on crash-course to be carried out by qualified professionals. So I 
vote for yes, definitely.

Best regards,
Alex.-

PS: On teaching by examples

 From a passage I once read (and copy-pasted) from Gandhi's "Swadeshi" 
text, I've replaced "religious leaders" by "scholars", since their missions 
have much in common (take away the differences), and a nice and inspiring 
text results:

"There is a painful thing I am obliged to mention, and it is that our 
[scholars], whose duty it is to enlighten people, have forgotten that duty. 
This is true, however much it may hurt us. [Scholars] have it in them to 
set an example to their followers by their conduct. Mere preaching will 
have no effect on those who assemble to listen to their discourses. 
[Scholars], too, should follow the rule of swadeshi. They have plenty of 
time on hand. They should take to the spinning-wheel and spin and thus set 
an example to their followers. More than in the repetition of Rama as they 
tell the beads, in the music of the spinning-wheel will they hear the voice 
of the atman with a beauty all its own."

Nice, isn't it?

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At 02:15 28/08/2003, you wrote:

>Dear Council members,
>
>Geoffrey Rockwell, on behalf of the TEI Training Committee has
>forwarded me the following note, requesting me to put the matter to a
>vote with the Council in a timely fashion.
>
>I would like therefore to ask Council members to consider the
>following training proposal, which comes in two notes, look at the
>websites, and tell this list whether it should be approved as a TEI
>endorsed training course.  Since the timeline is rather short, I would
>like to close the voting Sunday evening at midnight UTC.
>
>Christian Wittern
>
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>    Attached note follows
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>
> >Dear Geoffrey,
> >
> >On behalf of the Association of Literary and Linguistic Computing I'll
> >run a 5 day workshop entitled 'Book & Text Studies: Humanities
> >Computing' at Rhodes University (Grahamstown, South Africa, 8-12
> >September 2003) together with Melissa Terras (SLAIS-UCL) and Ron Van den
> >Branden (CTB-KANTL). Apart from sessions on digitization, project
> >managament etc., more than half of the workshop will be devoted to
> >XML/TEI, TEILite, and XSL(T) for TEI users. The programme is on-line at
> ><http://www.kantl.be/ctb/event/2003/rhodes.htm>. There you will find
> >answers to all the items which should be covered in a proposal for a
> >Text Encoding Initiative Training seal of approval. Due to the short
> >time notice of this workshop (I was invited to fill this in only two
> >weeks ago) we're still working on the workshop material. The experience
> >of the instructors however and the trust the ALLC puts in them,
> >guarantees the quality of the workshop contents. The workshop will be
> >evaluated by the ALLC executive committee on the basis of a report by
> >the workshop leader. This is the first ALLC workshop under the new
> >workshop programme. I think a tight link with the TEI would be of
> >benefit to both organisations and to (prospective) local organisers.
> >Especially for the audience in South Africa, where HC is virtually
> >non-existant, this could be a good signal.
> >
> >Could you consider this workshop for approval by the TEI, so we could
> >advertise it as "Certified by the Text Encoding Initiative". Is there
> >anything else you expect of me? Is it still possible time-wise?
> >
> >Best,
> >
> >Edward Vanhoutte
> >--
> >
> >=============
> >Edward Vanhoutte
> >Co-ordinator
> >Centrum voor Teksteditie en Bronnenstudie - CTB (KANTL)
> >Centre for Scholarly Editing and Document Studies
> >Reviews Editor, Literary and Linguistic Computing
> >Koninklijke Academie voor Nederlandse Taal- en Letterkunde
> >Royal Academy of Dutch Language and Literature
> >Koningstraat 18 / b-9000 Gent / Belgium
> >tel: +32 9 265 93 51 / fax: +32 9 265 93 49
> >evanhoutte at kantl.be
> >http://www.kantl.be/ctb/
> >http://www.kantl.be/ctb/vanhoutte/
>
>
>I requested more information from Edward on the content of the TEI
>section. He sent me this note:
>
> >Dear Geoffrey,
> >
> >the TEI section of the workshop will parallel the course I lecture at the
> >University of Antwerp. The programme of last year's course can be found at:
> ><http://www.kantl.be/ctb/vanhoutte/teach/hc2003.htm>
> >
> >I hope this can give a better insight into what we will be doing, although
> >the slides are not online.
> >
> >Best,
> >
> >Edward
>
>
>--
>
>  Christian Wittern
>  Institute for Research in Humanities, Kyoto University
>  47 Higashiogura-cho, Kitashirakawa, Sakyo-ku, Kyoto 606-8265, JAPAN

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