[tei-council] ESF Proposal

[Lou Burnard]

You'll remember that at our Lyon meeting Laurent and I were actioned to 
go away and draft a proposal for an exploratory workshop for submission 
to the European Science Foundation, on the topic of "whither P6?" or 
words to that effect.

Time and space being what they are, I'm afraid we're perilously close to 
missing the deadline (teatime on Thursday) for this one. But for what 
it's worth, we do now have a draft and an initial list of proposed 
invitees, which Council members are urgently requested to peruse and 
comment on! It's at http://tei.oucs.ox.ac.uk/ESF/esfproposal.xml

Note that as well as the deadline, we're constrained by ESF rules about 
who we can invite: they have to be people from institutions located in 
ESF-funded countries. No observers, even self-funded, are permitted. 
They will graciously permit a "small number" of exceptions for 
scientifically essential participants, but we've chosen to interpret 
that small number as "one" (the budget wouldn't realistically permit 
more than that anyway)

Laurent and I think this is a great way of kicking off the debate about 
how the TEI will develop during the next five years, whether or not we 
get the funding (to be fair, the success rate is only around 15% so 
don't book that time off work yet)