[tei-council] ESF Proposal

[Dan O'Donnell]

And thanks very much to Lou and Laurent for putting together such a 
strong programme on such short notice. I think it might serve as an 
excellent blueprint for future workshop applications.

As for time and space: I've been busy trying to learn "As time goes by" 
(the song in question when Sam is asked to "play it [again], Sam" in 
Casablanca). I read somewhere that it is a terrible song and an 
investigation on YouTube seems to show that nobody ever plays the verse. 
Which is just as well, since it goes on about how tedious Einstein and 
his esoteric work on "third dimension" is.

I guess he moved on to discuss time-space later, after his seminal work 
on height-space.

 -dan

Lou Burnard wrote:
> 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)
>
>
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Daniel Paul O'Donnell
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University of Lethbridge

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