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

[Dan O'Donnell]

Sounds fine. If I've learned anything it's not to get between tasks and
volunteers ;)

-dan

On Wed, 2007-28-02 at 08:01 +0000, James Cummings wrote:
> 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!
> >>>
> >>> --
> >>> Sebastian Rahtz
> >>>
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> 
> 
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