Recharging of WGs

[Christian Wittern]

Dear Council members,

I failed to mention one important item concerning the status of TEI
WGs.  In the past, workgroups had been charged for a term of one year,
with renewal due at the change of the calendar year.  The council will
therefore be required to approve a renewal and also a budget for
the wokrgoups.

Tone Merete informed me that the total budget for workgroups in 2004
has been set to US$20000.  This includes all expenses related to
workgroup activity, including travel for the editors (this is for
example the case for the FS WG, which is otherwise not TEI-funded).

We will need to decide, how to use this money.  It would be useful for
this purpose, if the chairs of the currently running workgroups can
come up with a budget plan for 2004.

As chair of the Character Encoding WG, I can say that we do not plan
to hold a meeting this year (I just checked the minutes and found that
I said the same yesteryear -- although we did end up holding a meeting
at Nancy) so I do not expect to have substantial expenses for this WG.

All the best, 

Christian


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 Christian Wittern 
 Institute for Research in Humanities, Kyoto University
 47 Higashiogura-cho, Kitashirakawa, Sakyo-ku, Kyoto 606-8265, JAPAN