[tei-council] [tei-board] Preface updated

Sebastian Rahtz sebastian.rahtz at oucs.ox.ac.uk
Sat Oct 27 16:00:10 EDT 2007


Syd Bauman wrote:
>    With this version, the Guidelines also enter a new stage in their
>    development as a community-maintained, open source project;
>    furthermore, it is the first version to have benefited from the
>    close overview and oversight of an elected TEI Technical Council.
>
> We may also wish to drop "community-maintained". It may imply more
> openness than P5 ever enjoyed or had to suffer.
>   
i prefer Syd's rewrite. I too think a phrase like
"community-maintained" is a hostage to fortune
and liable to misinterpretation.

the fact that the project is open source is purely
a legal thing, of course.

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