[tei-council] Statement

James Cummings James.Cummings at oucs.ox.ac.uk
Wed Aug 17 12:00:31 EDT 2011


Ah I see, I misread that to begin with, apologies. What about

"...that the events announced by the TEI Board on 15 August 2011, 
pending greater explanation, have caused..."

-James

On 17/08/11 16:55, Martin Holmes wrote:
> In that case, do you still think we should hold off on releasing our
> statement? I rather think it would be good for something to emerge soon.
> We could even say "the events that will be described
> in the Board's upcoming statement".
>
> On 11-08-17 08:50 AM, Lou Burnard wrote:
>> Yeah, for some value of xx....
>>
>> Latest word is that it won't be before the end of the week.
>>
>>
>> On 17/08/11 16:42, Martin Holmes wrote:
>>> When the board issues its statement, we could say "the events described
>>> in the Board's statement of 2011-08-xx".
>>>
>>> Cheers,
>>> Martin
>>>
>>> On 11-08-17 08:24 AM, Brett Barney wrote:
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Also, the wording of #4 is problematic. I'd suggest something like:
>>>>
>>>> 4) We believe that the events of the past week have caused a real harm to
>>>> the TEI Consortium and wish to know the Board's plans for restoring the
>>>> Consortium's reputation and good standing in the community.
>>>>
>>>> Though some may think "the events of the past week" is too vague.
>>>>
>>>> Brett
>>>>
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>>>>       |Lou Burnard<lou.burnard at retired.ox.ac.uk>                                                                                                            |
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>>>>       |tei-council at lists.village.Virginia.EDU                                                                                                            |
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>>>>       |Re: [tei-council] Statement                                                                                                                       |
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>>>> "to is reputation" ->     "to its reputation"
>>>>
>>>> On 17/08/11 15:55, Laurent Romary wrote:
>>>>> Council,
>>>>>
>>>>> Following our discussion, here's a new wording of our statement. Could we
>>>> get consensus on this so that I put it on the TEI + board list?
>>>>>
>>>>> Laurent
>>>>>
>>>>> 1) The TEI Technical Council continues to function and wants to get on
>>>> with its job of improving and openly maintaining the Guidelines and
>>>> associated systems and resources on behalf of the TEI Community.
>>>>>
>>>>> 2) The TEI Technical Council is shocked and saddened by the sudden
>>>> actions of the TEI Board in dismissing its chair and the implications this
>>>> may have for the ability of the TEI Board to work effectively as
>>>> representatives of the TEI Community.
>>>>>
>>>>> 3) We desire a greater transparency and accountability in TEI Board
>>>> activities, in addition to the minutes of meetings it already publishes,
>>>> and would support reforms that introduced mechanisms making TEI Board
>>>> activities more transparent and introduced greater consultation with the
>>>> TEI Community.
>>>>>
>>>>> 4) We wish to know what plans the TEI Board has to rescue the TEI
>>>> Consortium from what we perceive to be real harm to is reputation and good
>>>> standing in the community that this incident has caused.
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