[tei-council] [Fwd: Community Choice Awards: Finalist Notification]

[Daniel Paul O'Donnell]

What is this "read the message" you speak of? Does anybody do that any 
more? I thought email was like poetry: more people write it than read it.

Lou Burnard wrote:
> Iff you read the message it  does make clear what kind of video they're looking
> for -- and the Dylan one is not it. Not that that need stop us (and indeed, it
> hasn't)
>
>
>
> n message <4A30B00A.6040806 at oucs.ox.ac.uk> James Cummings
> <James.Cummings at oucs.ox.ac.uk> writes:
>   
>> Daniel Paul O'Donnell wrote:
>>     
>>> I've just passed this on to the board.
>>>
>>> Seriously, this is a pretty big honour. In addition to being proud of 
>>> ourselves, we should be thinking about what to do about it. Is the 
>>> thinking we should use the viral video? It is a pretty neat idea.
>>>       
>> I think the viral video doesn't really explain what TEI is very well. 
>> If I watched it I would assume it was some XML thing for music videos at 
>> best.
>>
>> I think we should do something like the excellent
>> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6gmP4nk0EOE
>> "Web 2.0 ... The Machine is Us/ing Us" by Mike Wesch.  (That I'm sure 
>> you've all seen, or should have seen.)
>>
>> -James
>>
>>     
>>> -dan
>>>
>>> Sebastian Rahtz wrote:
>>>       
>>>> see below
>>>>
>>>> its probably a non-happening, but
>>>> the point about the video is interesting.
>>>>
>>>> who'd like to produce, direct and star in a quick
>>>> promo on you tube?
>>>>
>>>> -------- Original Message --------
>>>> Subject: 	Community Choice Awards: Finalist Notification
>>>> Date: 	Mon, 8 Jun 2009 18:39:59 -0700
>>>> From: 	Ross Turk <rturk at corp.sourceforge.com>
>>>> To: 	Ross David Turk <rturk at corp.sourceforge.com>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Hi!  We have just finished tallying the nominations for our fourth
>>>> annual SourceForge.net Community Choice Awards, and I have some news
>>>> for you.
>>>>
>>>> Your project, Text Encoding Initiative, has been selected as an
>>>> alternate finalist in Best Project for Academia.
>>>>
>>>> Being an alternate means that you didn't have enough nominations to be
>>>> a finalist, but you were really, *really* close.  If one of our
>>>> finalists declines to accept their nomination, we may need you to fill
>>>> in!
>>>>
>>>> This year, we want our voters to know as much as possible about your
>>>> project...but we need your help!  Please respond to this email with the
>>>> following info before June 17th:
>>>>
>>>> 1. Complete this sentence in about 140 characters: "Our project is
>>>> [-foo-]."  For example, "Our project is a tool that helps you wash your
>>>> car."
>>>>
>>>> 2. Complete this sentence, also in about 140 characters: "We should win
>>>> because [-bar-]."  For example, "We should win because we have a strong
>>>> community and we solve a universal problem."
>>>>
>>>> 3. Please provide a logo (or screenshot, if you'd prefer) for your
>>>> project.  It should be at least 640x480, but we'll also be showing it
>>>> as a thumbnail.
>>>>
>>>> 4. This one is optional, but it could make a big difference.  We'd like
>>>> to show our voters a video that introduces them to the core members of
>>>> your team.  Send along the URL (on YouTube) and we'll make sure they
>>>> see it!
>>>>
>>>> 5. In some cases, I'm mailing several people in your community because
>>>> I don't know who the right person is.  If you're not the right person
>>>> for me to be dealing with, please let me know. I certainly don't want
>>>> to be irritating.
>>>>
>>>> 6. Our finalists are usually pretty interesting people.  Are you
>>>> willing to be contacted by our public relations team about interviews
>>>> with the press?
>>>>
>>>> Thanks in advance for your responses.  It's very important that we
>>>> receive this information by June 17th - we'll be kicking off the final
>>>> vote on the 22nd, and we have to have time to put everything together.
>>>>
>>>> Congratulations on having such a dedicated community, and best of luck!
>>>>
>>>> Ross Turk
>>>> Director of Community, SourceForge
>>>>
>>>> (P.S. - Sorry if you've received more than one copy of this email.  My
>>>> outgoing SMTP server has been acting a bit strange.)
>>>>
>>>>   
>>>>         
>> -- 
>> Dr James Cummings, Research Technologies Service, University of Oxford
>> James dot Cummings at oucs dot ox dot ac dot uk
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Daniel Paul O'Donnell
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