[tei-council] a chance in a million for a lucky Council member

[James Cummings]

Daniel O'Donnell wrote:
> I wonder if this might not need more than just two people: there are a
> number of issues here: information design, layout, output formats (HTML
> +/or PDF), stylesheet design, etc., etc., etc.
> 
> It seems to me that this might profitably be seen as a group of people
> working under a lead who take complete ownership of the problem and
> deliver by the milestone.
> 
> There are other groups/deadlines coming. You can see them at the Trac
> site: http://tei.oucs.ox.ac.uk/trac.cgi/roadmap
> 
> If Dot and James want to lead this that would be superb. But perhaps we
> could put together a larger workgroup?

I think that this already is the case in some ways.  The council as a whole is 
the larger workgroup.  If Dot and I work in a focused fashion to produce 
something and then report back to Council, for opinions, etc., then revise what 
we've produced with those suggestions in mind, then that has the same effect in 
many ways.  Rather than splintering the task amongst a larger number of people, 
I wanted to keep it fairly tightly-knit.  As you say there are lots of other 
milestones that need working on, and if Dot and I take away this one, then some 
of the other council members can work on the more important ones!  But of course 
we're happy to do this however council feels, or let someone else do it if there 
are other volunteers, etc.

-James


> 
> -dan
> On Tue, 2007-02-27 at 16:47 -0500, Dot Porter wrote:
>> Hi Council,
>>
>> James and I volunteer for this task. We feel that we'll be more
>> effective working together than either of us would be separately (that
>> and James still need to finish up an initial draft of Conformance).
>>
>> Dot
>>
>> On 2/27/07, Sebastian Rahtz <sebastian.rahtz at oucs.ox.ac.uk> wrote:
>>> Who would like to step up to the plate
>>> and pick one of the plum jobs from the list?
>>>
>>> The task is nothing less than to design the
>>> layout of the Guidelines. The first requirement
>>> is to do the web version, then look at print
>>> if it is going well.
>>>
>>> The input is XHTML coming an XSLT
>>> transform of P5; you can change that XSLT too,
>>> but the first task is probably just to
>>> take over the CSS and make better-looking pages.
>>>
>>> Obviously whoever takes this on has to be prepared
>>> to defend the results to a sceptical Council,
>>> so a certain amount of hard-heartedness is required.
>>> You also have to be prepared to work through
>>> the nitty grit of what information is in an ODD
>>> and how best to present it.
>>>
>>> Only one caveat - the result cannot just be a lovely
>>> HTML page, with an instruction saying "go make
>>> it look like that". Finished product required.
>>>
>>> Go on, someone on the Council wants this task.
>>> Step forward and claim it!
>>>
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Dr James Cummings, Oxford Text Archive, University of Oxford
James dot Cummings at oucs dot ox dot ac dot uk