[tei-council] P5, the birth notice

Dan O'Donnell daniel.odonnell at uleth.ca
Mon Nov 5 16:15:43 EST 2007


Now that I'm back in Lethbridge, I've started on the press release. Any
ideas for where it should go? (i.e. to whom we should send it?)

Obvious places:

* our website
* New York Times
* Wired

Anywhere else?  -dan

;)



On Sun, 2007-04-11 at 06:43 -0500, Christian Wittern wrote:
> Sebastian Rahtz wrote:
> > Someone should post to TEI-L, etc, saying
> > that P5 is out. Who wants the honour
> > of composing the message?
> >
> >   
> I'd be happy to do so, since Dan get's the fun of doing the press 
> release.  Unfortunately, I can't post to TEI-L from this account, so it 
> would have to wait until Tuesday morning (Japanese time) until I get 
> back into my office.  Here is what I have in mind:
> 
> Dear TEI users,
> 
> After more than 6 years of, at times quite intensive, development, it is 
> with great pleasure that I announce the release of version 1.0 of P5, 
> the latest and greates version of the Guidelines of the Text Encoding 
> Initiative.  You will find the new version online at  
> http://www.tei-c.org/release/doc/tei-p5-doc/en/html/index.html, a PDF 
> and even printed books are expected to appear in due time.
> 
> The main development work has been carried out by the TEI Technical 
> Council and the Editors Lou Burnard and Syd Baumann.  I would like to 
> take this opportunity to warmly thank all previous members of the 
> Council but also especially the current members, who shared quite a big 
> of the work, which magically increased as the release date was approaching:
> 
> David Birnbaum, Tone Merete Bruvik, Arianna Ciula, James Cummings, 
> Matthew Driscoll, Daniel O'Donnel, Dot Porter, Sebastian Rahtz Laurent 
> Romary, Conal Tuohy, John Walsh.
> 
> Christian Wittern
> 
> Chair, TEI Technical Council
> 
-- 
Daniel Paul O'Donnell, PhD
Chair, Text Encoding Initiative <http://www.tei-c.org/>
Director, Digital Medievalist Project <http://www.digitalmedievalist.org/>
Associate Professor and Chair of English
University of Lethbridge
Lethbridge AB T1K 3M4
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Fax: +1 403 382-7191
Homepage: http://people.uleth.ca/~daniel.odonnell/



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