[tei-council] Badges... and I18N

Dan O'Donnell daniel.odonnell at uleth.ca
Sat Apr 11 17:34:35 EDT 2009


Any additional responses to James's excellent question? I think the 
question "do you put a TEI badge on your website" is one we should get 
in the habit of asking (I'll be proposing another fairly soon: are you a 
subscriber?). But what about the anglo-centricism? Methods of dealing 
with it?

James Cummings wrote:
> Hi there,
>
> I know no one wants to think about badges....
>
> But sitting here in Lyon listening to interesting presentations about tools and resources using TEI, I keep wanting to say "Do you put a TEI Badge on your website?"
>
> http://www.tei-c.org/About/Badges/
>
> The problem, of course, with this is that our badges are horribly anglo-centric in that they only have English words on them.  Alongside these badges, might we also include one which uses no words on it at all?  Just the TEI logo in a standard format for people to badge their website with?
>
> Just thought I'd mention it as a possibility.
>
> -James
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