[tei-council] new look TEI web site

[Julia Flanders]

Yes, the Board is discussing and deciding on the issue of whether 
there's a need for a UK mirror, and on the function/location of a 
development site.

Although the strategic issues are being addressed over the way on the 
board list, if members of the Council have feedback to offer (at a 
conceptual, not a detail level) on the TEI web site, you should feel 
free to send it to Sebastian and to Matt Gibson, who is UVa's 
representative on the Board. Virginia will be undertaking a more 
thorough redesign of the entire TEI site later in the year, and 
thoughts about the site (as always) are helpful in identifying areas 
that need work.

However, it's probably a better use of people's time to review the 
sourceForge materials.

best, Julia

At 5:18 PM +0000 3/3/05, James Cummings wrote:
>Julia Flanders wrote:
>>  I've searched the TEI-L list archives, and there are quite a lot 
>>of postings which assume that the UK site is an official mirror:
>>  --people are directed, without comment, to files that are available on it
>
>Thanks for the answers, you are right then, to users it must appear 
>as a mirror site, whatever its actual function.  I'm of the opinion 
>that if it is a mirror then all files should exist at both 
>locations, and people should always be directed to the .org version. 
>(If one day Virginia want to do load balancing and direct people 
>from Europe automatically to the UK version, then that might justify 
>the existence of the UK version.)  But, is there really the need for 
>a UK mirror?  I don't recall ever having a problem getting to the 
>Virginia site or it being slow.  What is the point of it otherwise? 
>Perhaps we should create
>http://dev.tei-c.org/ as a development site (hosted where-ever, perhaps
>on the current www.tei-c.org.uk).
>
>-James
>--
>Dr James Cummings, Oxford Text Archive, University of Oxford
>James dot Cummings at oucs dot ox dot ac dot uk