[tei-council] Thank you and good bye to outgoing Council members

[Edward Vanhoutte]

Dear Christian and council members,

thank you very much for your kind wishes. It was a privilege to serve on 
the Council although I do realize my input has been rather minimal.
Keep up the good work and never forget the average moderate technical 
skills of much of the TEI community (hence the wide succes of TEILite). 
Since this has always been one of my main concerns, I'm happy to report 
that funding has been secured from King's College London, in 
collaboration with The Centre for Scholarly Editing and Document Studies 
(CTB) of the Royal Academy of Dutch Language and Literature (Belgium) 
and University College London for the construction of a suite of online 
tutorials called "TEI by Example".  These online tutorials would provide 
a useful teaching and learning aid to those embarking on a markup 
project in TEI and will of course address P5. Ron Van den Branden will 
be the executive project officer and the project will be managed by 
Melissa Terras and myself. Development of the tutorials will begin at 
the CTB in January 2006. We hope to announce a first release in Autumn 
2006.

Best wishes and so long,

Edward

Christian Wittern wrote:

>Dear council members,
>
>As the year approaches its end, all of Japan is busy cleaning 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.  Before I do the same to my office, and the network will go
>down for maintenance as well, there are some last things that require
>attention.
>
>With the end of this year, the terms on the Council of Perry Willett
>and Edward Vanhoutte will be fulfilled.  I would like to take this
>opportunity to thank both of you for your time and devotion (even with
>so many other committments requiring time and energy) 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 2006, whatever it might hold for
>you and the TEI (some more releases of P5 for sure)
>
>All the best,
>
>Christian Wittern
>
>
>
>
>  
>

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Edward Vanhoutte
Researcher
University of Antwerp
Associate Editor, Literary and Linguistic Computing
University of Antwerp - CDE
Dept. of Literature
Universiteitsplein 1
b-2610 Wilrijk
Belgium

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