Thank you and good bye to outgoing Council members

[Tomaz Erjavec]

Dear Christian, all (in case I am still on the list!),
thanks for your nice words - it was a pleasure serving on this
Council, and I wish all of you a productive and esp. happy 2004!
All the best,
Tomaz

<p>Christian Wittern writes:
 > 
 > Dear colleagues,
 > 
 > As the year approaches its end, all of Japan is busy clearing out
 > shops and poaches, washing cars and houses, wiping Buddhas and
 > Bodhisattvas and testing the temple gongs to make sure everything is
 > ready for the New Year.  All of Japan? No, there is the occasional
 > foreigner, still not used to these customs, hacking away on its
 > keyboard to send out some last email messages before the network
 > cables and switches will also be shut down for cleaning (or so I
 > assume).
 > 
 > With the end of this year, the terms on the Council of Merrilee
 > Proffitt and Tomaz Erjavec will be fulfilled.  I would like to take
 > this opportunity to thank both of you for your time and devotion (even
 > with telephone conferences at 5AM and the like) to the TEI Consortium,
 > its members and the council.  I am sure we will be able continue to
 > count on your support and expertise as a member of the TEI community.
 > 
 > I hope this message finds all of you in good spirits and I wish you
 > have a good beginning of the New Year 2004, whatever it might hold for
 > you and the TEI.
 > 
 > All the best,
 > 
 > Christian Wittern
 > 
 > 
 > 
 > -- 
 > 
 >  Christian Wittern 
 >  Institute for Research in Humanities, Kyoto University
 >  47 Higashiogura-cho, Kitashirakawa, Sakyo-ku, Kyoto 606-8265, JAPAN