[tei-council] Shopping cart tryout

[Daniel Paul O'Donnell]

Hi Lou,

An important quick question (ignoring for the moment other points you 
make that are self-explanatory):

> 5. More seriously, the text talks about "subscribing as an institution 
> or a project", which is very confusing. Elsewhere on the site, we've 
> been careful to use the term "membership" and variants thereon 
> strictly for what institutions do, and the term "subscription" and 
> variants thereon strictly for what individuals do. (At least that's 
> what I remember us doing"!). This is a handy distinction which your 
> current wording obfuscates. Please change it to "Become a member 
> institution or project" passim.
Do you know which page this happens on? I agree absolutely with you 
about the language and its importance, but I'm not seeing this. I'm 
seeing lots of places where it uses "join the tei as an individual or an 
institution," sometimes with "individual (subscriber) or institution 
(member)" specified, and I'm seeing lots of places where it explicitly 
distinguishes among the different categories (e.g. "Individuals may 
subscribe online now using our new webstore. Institutions, which 
typically require invoices, currently should contact the membership 
secretary <mailto:membership at tei-c.org> to open or renew a membership"). 
I'm not seeing anywhere where it says "subscribing as an institution or 
a project"--no doubt it is there and I'm just overlooking it, but since 
this development server isn't open to google, I can't find it. If you 
could point me to a specific place where that language is collapsed like 
that, I'd like to fix it before we go live! It is of course a crucial 
distinction and certainly one I tried to maintain throughout; so far, 
I've not found a single example.

Thanks very much for reading the site so carefully!

-- 
Daniel Paul O'Donnell
Associate Professor of English
University of Lethbridge

Chair and CEO, Text Encoding Initiative (http://www.tei-c.org/)
Co-Chair, Digital Initiatives Advisory Board, Medieval Academy of America
President-elect (English), Society for Digital Humanities/Société pour l'étude des médias interactifs (http://sdh-semi.org/)
Founding Director (2003-2009), Digital Medievalist Project (http://www.digitalmedievalist.org/)

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