[tei-council] Organising a TEI Council meeting in Helsinki

James Cummings James.Cummings at oucs.ox.ac.uk
Tue Mar 10 09:49:37 EDT 2009


Hiya,

Ville from the DECL project in Helsinki has contacted me again and needs 
to know ASAP if we'd like to organise a TEI Council meeting in Helsinki 
in spring/autumn 2010.  This is because they *may* be able to get some 
funding to cover a third to a half of travelling expenses for some of 
the council members.  Unfortunately the deadline for this is the end of 
this month.  We are able to tentatively agree now and change our mind 
later if they don't get funding.

While I've just said in an early message that I have very little time, 
I'm willing to feed back any answers the council might have and liaise 
with them if we want to undertake to do this.  Basically they need 
answers to the five questions in the message below.  My guesses at 
answers would be:

1) Yes.
2) Yes, though we'd probably be open to giving more papers if necessary.
3) We probably have some specific topics we'd like to talk about, but 
are also open to suggestions of themes.
4) At least two clear days after the seminar where we have a room, data 
projector, and preferably wifi.
5) I'm not sure, does someone have just the *travel* costs for a council 
meeting to hand?  But new people will be elected, so 12-14 people with 
probably the majority from Europe, but some from North America, if 
funding everyone.

If the council thinks it would be good to meet in Helsinki, then let me 
know in the next couple days what are more official answers to these 
questions.  unfortunately we cannot wait until after Lyon for answers to 
these.

Best,

-James


> Hi, 
 > We have been doing some planning on organising a conference
> seminar on TEI here in Helsinki in either spring or autumn of 2010.
> The idea would be to have a two-day seminar with representatives from
> as many of the Finnish editing/digitisation projects using TEI or
> interested in using TEI as possible and to have the members of the
> TEI council as invited speakers. The preliminary idea for the
> contents of the seminar would be to have two general lectures by TEI
> council members (open not only  to participants of the seminar but to
> other interested parties as well), introductions of all the Finnish
> TEI projects represented in the seminar (c. 30 minutes each,
> including questions and answers) and two workshop sessions (anything
> form 1,5 to 4 hours) on more specific topics, held by TEI Council
> members. Both time and a venue would naturally be provided for the
> TEI Council to have their meeting.
> 
> The reason for this planning spree is, that we have a prospect (but
> just a prospect at this point) of getting some funding for such a
> seminar, which we could use to cover part of the travel expenses of
> the TEI Council members (in addition to venues for the lectures,
> workshops and the Council meeting, which the organising parties would
> provide themselves). The downside is, that organising such a seminar
> is contingent on us actually getting some funding for it (as none of
> the organising parties can spare the money from their own pockets),
> which means that while we would have to have the thing planned by the
> end of this month (yes, it's a short notice), we wouldn't yet know
> whether we can actually make it happen before the funding decisions
> come through (later this spring). I know that the deadline for the
> funding application is before the next Council meeting, but would
> there be any way to figure out the necessary information during the
> next two weeks or so. What we would need to figure out, is:
> 
> 1) whether the TEI Council would be willing and able to come to
> Helsinki (either in spring or autumn of 2010) to hold their meeting
> (venue provided) and to participate in the seminar if we could get
> funding to cover a part (one third to half) of their travel
> expenses),
> 
> 2) if they would, does the proposal of giving two lectures and two
> workshops for the seminar sound reasonable,
> 
> 3) if it does, would you like us to suggest specific topics or do you
> want to suggest something yourself (suitable presentations you have
> held before would be perfectly OK; TEI is not yet particularly well
> known in Finland, so at least one general introductory lecture on TEI
> would be a good idea),
> 
> 4) how much time would you require for the Council meeting itself,
> 
> 5) how much would the travel expenses of the council members be, so
> that we can include it in the budget (we can figure out the cost of
> accommodation here if you let us know what your requirements are).
> 
> I know this is on a very short notice and I understand if it cannot
> be done, but we thought we'd give it a shot. Let me know what you
> (and the Council) think of the idea.
> 
> 
> On behalf of the organising parties, Ville Marttila
> 



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