[tei-council] Badges... and I18N

[Dan O'Donnell]

I think in the end that would be best. I was thinking of having a kind 
of competition at some point for additional suggestions as a way of 
keeping the badges in the public eye.

-dan

David Sewell wrote:
> I don't really want to take on the task of middleman to ask the badge
> designer to create a version for each new language that someone wants.
> As an alternative, do we want to make publicly available the underlying
> editable format that he uses, so that people could create their own
> versions?
>
> David
>
> On Sun, 12 Apr 2009, Laurent Romary wrote:
>
>   
>> My feeling would be to start launching the badges as is for the time
>> being and see how the community reacts. We cannot cover all potential
>> languages ourselves, but may offer people to localize the badges
>> themselves and send them back to us so that we integrate them in the
>> pool of available badges in the long term.
>>
>> Le 11 avr. 09 à 23:34, Dan O'Donnell a écrit :
>>
>>     
>>> 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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>>> University of Lethbridge
>>>
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Daniel Paul O'Donnell
Associate Professor of English
University of Lethbridge

Chair and CEO, Text Encoding Initiative (http://www.tei-c.org/)
Founding Director, Digital Medievalist Project (http://www.digitalmedievalist.org/)
Chair, Electronic Editions Advisory Board, Medieval Academy of America

Vox: +1 403 329-2377
Fax: +1 403 382-7191 (non-confidental)
Home Page: http://people.uleth.ca/~daniel.odonnell/