[tei-council] Call for Nominations: TEI-C Council Chair

[Daniel O'Donnell]

For members of this august body, I should also add that we are extremely
interested in (self-)nominations and comments from continuing, exiting,
or arriving members of council as well.

It is likely that we will appoint an acting council chair for the
two-to-three weeks that we'll need in January to round things out.

-dan 


On Thu, 2007-12-20 at 14:32 -0700, Daniel O'Donnell wrote:
> Christian Wittern, who has served so ably as TEI Council Chair since
> 2003, will be stepping down at the end of his third term on December
> 31st, 2007.
> 
> To assist it in its deliberations, the TEI Board is seeking nominations
> (including self-nominations) for candidates to replace Professor Wittern
> in this important post. Nominees need not be members of the TEI, its
> Board, or Council. The successful candidate will be appointed to both
> the Board and Council for an initial term of two years. As an officer of
> the Consortium, the Council Chair is not remunerated. The Council is
> assigned a significant budget for travel and other costs including
> technical support and editorial assistance, however.
> 
> The Council Chair is responsible for directing the activities of the
> Council and its workgroups. This involves maintaining and developing the
> Guidelines and proposing and assisting in the development of training
> documents and tutorials, technical services, and collaborations between
> the TEI and other organisations. In keeping with the emphasis of the
> 2007 Members' Meeting, the board is particularly interested in
> candidates who share the Board's interest in improving the Consortium's
> work on outreach, education, and collaboration.
> 
> The Board intends to appoint a replacement for Professor Wittern within
> the next six weeks. Nominations should be directed to the Executive
> Secretary, Chris Ruotolo (ruotolo at virginia.edu), no later than 1200 UTC
> on January 11, 2008.
> 
> For further information, please feel free to contact the Consortium
> Chair, Daniel Paul O'Donnell (daniel.odonnell at uleth.ca) or any member of
> the Consortium Board (see http://www.tei-c.org/About/board.xml for a
> list with contact addresses).
> 
-- 
Daniel Paul O'Donnell, PhD
Department Chair and Associate Professor of English
Director, Digital Medievalist Project http://www.digitalmedievalist.org/
Chair, Text Encoding Initiative http://www.tei-c.org/

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