[tei-council] TEI Technical Council Budget 2012

[Piotr Bański]

Just to add my 2 cents on top of this:

* +1 for (c),
* ODD2+ funding may present a clearer picture after Hamburg, if we ever
learn about DH's qualification results.

  P.

On 12/01/12 01:18, Kevin Hawkins wrote:
> James,
> 
> Thanks for the update.  My thoughts ...
> 
> On 1/10/12 6:25 PM, James Cummings wrote:
>> a) Paying for some additional people to attend the Ann Arbor meeting
>> specifically if we needed more input on ECCO/EEBO-TCP
>> conversion/rationalization (I was thinking MartinM or BrianPZ but have
>> not approached them), but I wonder if this is still as important as
>> we've solved a lot of the problems.
> 
> My recollection is that we did indeed solve most of the problems.  Even 
> if there are outstanding issues about rationalization that Paul 
> Schaffner (who will be attending as a Council member) can't answer for 
> us, I imagine we could get Martin Mueller or Brian Pytlik Zillig on the 
> phone or Skype to answer those questions.  They're both only one time 
> zone away from Ann Arbor, so I can't imagine this will be difficult.
> 
>> b) Subsidising a couple extra nights of hotel for several people to
>> participate in a workshop designing improvements for ODD3 after DH2012.
>> (I have put in a Future of ODD panel session that includes Lou Burnard,
>> Syd Baumann, Bertrand Gaiffe, Sebastian Rahtz, and Laurent Romary/Piotr
>> Bański). If that is accepted then we'd try to get these and some others
>> as well and offer to pay a couple nights hotel (if needed) to keep them
>> on a couple days and maybe room costs if we can't get one free.
>>
>> c) Web-Roma redevelopment bounty. This was the idea that we need a new
>> community-developed web-roma (not developed/maintained by Oxford) and
>> that we might put some money towards encouraging/kickstarting a group in
>> creating this.
> 
> Like James, I am most interested in (b) and (c), but I am more 
> interested in (c).  I believe that the TEI-C should better support the 
> current ODD framework before we jump into developing another framework.
> 
>> d) Another idea was to try to fund an entirely new processing
>> implementation of ODD2+ that is completely independent of the existing
>> XSLT. But this is problematic to budget.
> 
> You mean fund a complete rewrite of Roma rather than a better Roma, as 
> in (c)?
> 
>> e) General code bounty: We could come up with a list of much smaller
>> development or other technical projects that are much more easily
>> implemented and sufficiently useful to the TEI-C or Community.
> 
> We might suggest a few ideas, but opening this to the community for 
> suggestions would be good too.  Kind of like the TEI community grants. 
> Of course, with the community grants already out there, there might not 
> really be a need to do (e) at all.
> 
> --Kevin