[tei-council] Approval of SIG for Computer-Mediated Communication.

[James Cummings]

Dear TEI Technical Council,

You may have noticed that in the agenda for the council meeting I 
added a:
Approval of TEI-SIG for "Computer-Mediated Communication", but it 
occurs to me that this could probably just be done on the mailing 
list.

Find attached (if the mailing list allows attachments, I've 
forgotten) a SIG proposal for a TEI SIG on computer-mediated 
communication. They also have a panel proposed for the TEI 
Conference (also attached).

You may also remember their article in Issue 3 of the jTEI 
http://jtei.revues.org/476 coming out of their paper at the TEI 
conference in 2011.

I can see no reason why we'd want to prevent formation of this 
SIG in any way as it doesn't significantly overlap with any of 
the existing SIGs. The purpose of the SIG is specifically to 
develop feature requests after discussion and investigation and 
present these to the council which is exactly the process we'd 
like SIGs to undertake. The precise proposals will be judged on 
their merits when they appear, though of course interested 
Council members are encouraged to join the SIG if we approve it. 
(And this reminds me that I should be editing 
http://www.tei-c.org/Activities/SIG/rules.xml to reflect the 
removal of the SIG Coordinator role and its duties having been 
merged into the Council Chair's.)

Does anyone have any one have any comments on the approval or not 
of this SIG?  If we agree it beforehand then that is one less 
item we need to discuss at the meeting.

-James

-- 
Dr James Cummings, James.Cummings at it.ox.ac.uk
Academic IT Services, University of Oxford
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