another question to ponder

[Susan Schreibman]

I agree totally! Sometimes there is just so much going on the TEI list, that
I can't get to it. I'd also love to be able to delete items, and know I can
get back to them. Humanist has a fabulous archive interface. If we could
have something like that for the TEI, and an easy way of finding special
interest lists for newcomers, that would be terrific.

usan

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Christian Wittern" <wittern at kanji.zinbun.kyoto-u.ac.jp>
To: <tei-council at lists.village.Virginia.EDU>
Sent: Wednesday, December 10, 2003 7:46 PM
Subject: Re: another question to ponder

<p>> Sebastian Rahtz <sebastian.rahtz at computing-services.oxford.ac.uk> writes:
>
> > Sorry to bang on about this, but if the TEI Consortium (as opposed to
> > the TEI) is to have a future, it has to be much more proactive about its
> > image, its communications, its services etc. A sine qua non for that is
> > a single home for mailing lists, with centralized subscription
> > management, common searchable archives, and a rational set of lists for
> > different aspects of the TEI.
>
>
> In Nancy we shortly touched on this and I remember that Lou promised
> to look into how to implement improvement in list offerings.
>
> I also see this as a vital point for the way TEI is perceived from the
> outside (or even from the edges).  Management of the lists is a mess
> and done purely on an ad-hoc basis, with at least three different
> providers involved.  But given that the list form the most central
> piece of communication infrastructure the TEI has, I see the need to
> streamline this and put it in a common namespace, namely tei-c.org.
> What do we need to have an operating listserv server (like, say GNU
> mailman) taking care of lists at tei-c.org?  Who do we need to ask to
> get an estimate on this?  I will put this on the agenda for the next
> call, but would like to have a proposal we can discuss by then.  I
> assume also that this is rather an issue the board should take up, but
> I am sure the Board will consider a statement from the Council if we
> have one.
>
> All the best,
>
> Chistian Wittern
>
>
> -- 
>
>  Christian Wittern
>  Institute for Research in Humanities, Kyoto University
>  47 Higashiogura-cho, Kitashirakawa, Sakyo-ku, Kyoto 606-8265, JAPAN
>