[tei-council] Possible TEI Council Meeting in Finland

[Laurent Romary]

That's a nice one. And I like our peripatetic nature...
We just have to wait and see whether the board agrees on us having two  
meetings next year.
I will come back to this later,
Laurent

Le 9 déc. 08 à 17:22, James Cummings a écrit :

>
> 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
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