[tei-council] minutes/release deadline

Piotr Bański bansp at o2.pl
Fri Nov 11 17:36:14 EST 2011


Wiki has mechanisms for 'fixing' pages. They won't be editable that way.

  P.

On 11/11/11 23:16, Lou Burnard wrote:
> Up until very recently, minutes of all TEI meetings have always been encoded in a simple subset of TEI lite. The UVA site renders them dynamically, but if you want to see the source you can do so very simply. 
> 
> I think David states the advantages of doing so rather well. Drafting them on the wiki is fine if you want to facilitate group editing, but minutes are a matter of record which should be fixed at some point.
> 
> 
> ________________________________________
> From: tei-council-bounces at lists.village.Virginia.EDU [tei-council-bounces at lists.village.Virginia.EDU] On Behalf Of Martin Holmes [mholmes at uvic.ca]
> Sent: 11 November 2011 22:13
> To: James Cummings
> Cc: tei-council at lists.village.Virginia.EDU
> Subject: Re: [tei-council] minutes/release deadline
> 
> On 11-11-11 07:56 PM, James Cummings wrote:
>> On 11/11/11 14:46, David Sewell wrote:
>>> Council minutes have in the past always been posted to
>>> http://www.tei-c.org/Activities/Council/Meetings/index.xml. In
>>> principle there's no reason additions to that list could not
>>> point to a page on the TEI wiki instead of to a static XML
>>> file. But that would be establishing a significantly new
>>> precedent.
>>
>> I don't believe there is any intention to do so, I believe
>> MartinH was planning to TEI'ify them after Council input on the
>> draft on the wiki.  (Martin, correct me if I'm wrong.)
> 
> I really had no idea what I was supposed to do, and nobody mentioned any
> particular requirements, so I just did the best I could, and put them on
> the wiki because that's where I'd seen the minutes for the last meeting,
> which was the first one I attended. If I'd known they were supposed to
> end up in TEI, I would have done them all that way in the first place,
> but I had no idea. I did the last day in TEI, but that's now out of date
> because we've edited the wiki version.
> 
> I think the Council should take a formal decision on how the minutes
> should be taken, how they should then be collaboratively edited, and how
> they should be published. Then the next volunteer will have a clearer
> idea of what's expected of them, and won't inadvertently let themselves
> in for unnecessary markup work, as I seem to have done. Apologies if
> this is already clear and spelled out somewhere in the instructions for
> Council members; if it is, I've never seen it, or don't remember seeing it.
> 
> Cheers,
> Martin
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