[tei-council] proposal: call for stylesheets

[Sebastian Rahtz]

Julia Flanders wrote:

> Sebastian, you're right, one stipulation would need to be that the 
> donor of any stylesheet gives permission for general use in some 
> standard way specified by the TEI. I assume we have such an 
> arrangement where applicable for any TEI tool or stylesheet currently 
> made available via our site, and that we would continue to do so. 

In fact, we don't have such an arrangement. we really should do so.

>
> The point of the contest was not primarily to make a big deal of 
> adjudicating among the contestants, but to provide a bit of fun to 
> motivate people to contribute

well, anything's worth trying!

>
> Concerning your last point--although the TEI stylesheets, as you say, 
> are designed for internal use, the fact that they're distributed with 
> OxyGen has given them an unintended status. 

They weren't designed for internal use, though. They were designed to be 
used for real

>
> Anyway--it sounds as if this is one vote against the competition but 
> in favor of soliciting donated stylesheets...?

sure, I have no problem soliciting more stuff to link to from the web 
site. I do have a problem asking for stuff to be
_delivered_ from the TEI web site, as it involves the IPR and 
maintenance issues.

I don't mind competitions _per se_.

But as I say, it doesn't address something which I think is a bigger 
problem.

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Sebastian Rahtz      
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