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

[Dan O'Donnell]

Here are some other comments on preface:

1) I'd redo the list of members thusly (note the typo in my
affiliation):

Chair

        * 2002-3: John Unsworth (University of Virginia)
        * 2003-7: Christian Wittern (Kyoto University)

Consortium Chair (ex officio)

        * 2002-3: John Unsworth (University of Virginia)  // John was
both TC Chair and Consortium Chair
        * 2004-5: Julia Flanders (Brown University)
        * 2006: Matthew Zimmerman (New York University)
        * 2007: Daniel O'Donnell (University of Lethbridge)   //
University of Lethbridge not Lethbridge U

Board Appointee
        * 2002-7: Sebastian Rahtz (University of Oxford)

Elected Members

        * 2003-6: Alejandro Bia (University of Alicante)
        * 2004-6; 2006-7: David Birnbaum (University of Pittsburgh)
        * 2007: Tone Merete Bruvik (University of Bergen)
        * 2007: Arianna Ciula (King's College London)
        * 2005-7: James Cummings (University of Oxford)
        * 2002-7: Matthew Driscoll (University of Copenhagen)
        * 2002-4: David Durand (Ingenta plc)
        * 2002-4: Tomas Erjavec (Jozef Stefan Institute, Ljubljana)
        * 2002: Fotis Jannidis (University of Munich)
        * 2006: Amit Kumar (University of Urbana-Champaign)
        * 2002: Martin Mueller (Northwestern University)
        * 2006-7: Dorothy Porter (University of Kentucky)
        * 2002-3: Merillee Proffitt (Research Libraries Group)
        * 2002: Peter Robinson (De Montfort University)
        * 2002: Geoffrey Rockwell (Macmaster University)
        * 2002-7: Laurent Romary (University of Nancy; Max Planck
Digital Library)
        * 2003-7: Susan Schreibman (University of Maryland)
        * 2004-5: Natasha Smith (University of North Carolina at Chapel
Hill)
        * 2006-7: Conal Tuohy (Victoria University of Wellington)
        * 2004-5: Edward Vanhoutte (Royal Academy of Dutch Language and
Literature)
        * 2005-7: John Walsh (Indiana University)
        * 2002-5: Perry Willett (Indiana University)


2) Other points: 

Unless Michael Beddow wants the affiliation "Independent Scholar" I'd
drop it: the name seems sufficient to me

Why is the stand-off markup group "active" in quotes when the others are
not?

-dan




On Sat, 2007-27-10 at 21:00 +0100, Sebastian Rahtz wrote:
> 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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