TEI-C 2003 Members Meeting

[Alois Pichler]

TEXT ENCODING INITIATIVE CONSORTIUM (TEI-C) MEMBERS MEETING 2003

<p>Dear TEI-C Council member

The Text Encoding Initiative Consortium (TEI-C) will hold its THIRD ANNUAL 
MEMBERS MEETING at ATILF, the nationally-funded laboratory for analysis and 
data processing of the French language, based at the University of Nancy, 
France, on the 7th and the 8th November 2003.

The FIRST DAY will, as usual, be an open day with attendance open to all 
interested parties and an eclectic mix of presentations and
discussions from invited speakers and participants. Invited speakers this 
year include Nancy Ide, Michael Beddow, Patrick Durusau, Stuart Brown and 
Vincent Quint. There will be opportunities for attendees to speak briefly 
about their own projects, and a "TEI Question Time" for them to ask about 
and provide feedback on future developments in the TEI. The meeting will 
run all day and will conclude with a Reception at 18:30. Full details of 
the programme are available on the Members web site at 
http://www.tei-c.org/Members/2003-Nancy/.

The SECOND DAY will contain a business session, restricted to members and 
subscribers only, at which the annual elections for membership of the TEI-C 
Board and TEI-C Council will be held. Meetings of TEI Special Interest 
Groups (SIGs) are also scheduled for this day; information about SIG 
sessions will be supplied on the http://www.tei-c.org/Members/2003-Nancy/ site.

A TEI TRAINING SESSION will be organized the day before the Members 
Meeting, on the 6th: information about the training session will be 
supplied on the http://www.tei-c.org/Members/2003-Nancy/ site.

ELECTIONS to the TEI-C Council and TEI-C Board will take place on the 
second day, November 8th, according to the procedures defined in the TEI-C 
Charter and Bylaws. Votes may be cast in person, by post or fax, or by 
email; see further Article 2 of the TEI-C Bylaws on 
http://www.tei-c.org/Consortium/TEIby-A2.html. Ballot papers for the 
elections 2003, including the form to be used by members wishing to cast 
proxy votes, may be downloaded from 
http://www.tei-c.org/Members/Ballot_papers.pdf (available soon). Only 
members, but not subscribers, are entitled to vote. Only members who have 
paid the 2003 membership contribution are entitled to vote. Only member 
electors or their proxies are entitled to vote.

For candidates standing for 2003 election to the TEI-C Council and TEI-C 
Board, see http://www.tei-c.org/Members/2003-Nancy/mm15.html.

NANCY is a noble and ancient city in the North East of France, with 
excellent transport links (see further
http://www.ot-nancy.fr/pratique/); ATILF, formerly known as INALF, is now 
based at the University of Nancy and a part of CNRS, the French national 
research network (see further http://www.atilf.fr).

Accomodation has been reserved at the Hotel Albert 1er-Astoria 
(http://www.discountparishotels.net/nancy/inter-hotel-albert-1er-astoria.htm), 
five minutes walk from the meeting rooms at ATILF. A special rate of 50 
euro/night for B&B is available to those attending the meeting;  those 
wishing to stay additional nights will pay a discounted rate of 65 
euro/night. For bookings, please contact the
Hotel direct, specifying the TEI-C 2003 Meeting.

COSTS: Attendance at the meeting is free of charge for TEI-C subscribers. 
Every TEI-C member institution is entitled to send up to
two representatives free of charge for attendance.  An entrance fee of 75 
euros will be charged for all others.

All attendees other than invited speakers will be required to fund their 
own travel, accomodation, and meal costs.

PRE-REGISTRATION for the meeting is essential, for members, subscribers, 
and non-members alike. Please pre-register by sending
email to membership at tei-c.org.

Best regards

Alois Pichler
Acting Executive Director, Text Encoding Initiative Consortium 
http://www.tei-c.org/

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Alois Pichler

Project Director, Wittgenstein Archives http://www.hit.uib.no/wab
Acting Executive Director, Text Encoding Initiative Consortium 
http://www.tei-c.org/

Allegaten 27, N-5007 Bergen, Norway, Tel: +47-55-589474   Fax: +47-55-589470

Forskningsgruppe for tekstteknologi / Research Group for Text Technology
Avdeling for kultur, språk og informasjonsteknologi (AKSIS) / Department of 
culture, language and information technology (AKSIS)
Unifob AS
Universitetet i Bergen / University of Bergen