[tei-council] Possible TEI Council Meeting in Finland

[James Cummings]

Hi there,

While in Finland for Digital Humanities 2008 I talked with some of the
members of the DECL project  see
http://www.helsinki.fi/varieng/domains/DECL.html for more information.
When one of their number visited Oxford in the summer I met with him a
couple of times to discuss their plans, processing models, TEI, etc. 
During which time I happened to mention the peripatetic nature of the 
TEI Council meetings and how we've been trying to encourage 'TEI Day' 
symposiums around them to increase TEI awareness.  Ville has come back 
to me with the following expression of interest.

Does anyone want me to follow it up, potentially for an Autumn 2009 meeting?

-James

-------- Original Message --------
Subject: Greetings from the DECL team
Date: Tue, 09 Dec 2008 16:50:49 +0200
From: Ville Marttila <ville.marttila at helsinki.fi>
To: James Cummings <James.Cummings at oucs.ox.ac.uk>

Hi and Greetings from frosty Finland.

We (the DECL team, i.e. myself, Samuli and Alpo) were having lunch the
other week with Sakari Katajamäki and Ossi Kokko from the Finnish EDITH 
project (http://www.edith.fi/english/), which aims at producing detailed
criticalonline editions of Finnish literature classics and has chosen 
TEI as their encoding scheme. As we were discussing the emerging 
interest in TEI in Finland, I recalled you telling me in Oxford
about the itinerant nature of TEI Council meetings. As I brought up the
idea of offering to host one here in Helsinki, there was definite 
interest and strong belief that this could be done. And were there to be 
a presentation or two on some suitable topic by TEI experts from the 
council, this would offer an excellent chance to build a general
get-together/seminar for TEI-interested parties in Finland around it. Is
the TEI Council still open to having their meetings in far-away places 
such as Helsinki and giving a presentation or two while they are there? 
And how does the meeting schedule look; have venues for future meetings 
already been decided on? Next spring would probably be too soon
for us to get things properly organised, but for autumn 2009 or spring
2010 we could very well be able to host a TEI Council meeting here in 
Helsinki.

On behalf of the DECL and EDITH teams,
Ville Marttila


-- 
Ville Marttila, MA

Research Unit for Variation, Contacts and Change in English
Department of English
University of Helsinki

email: ville.marttila at helsinki.fi

-- 
Dr James Cummings, Research Technologies Service, University of Oxford
James dot Cummings at oucs dot ox dot ac dot uk