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Hi all,

At the membership meeting last week, we held elections for Board and Council. We had a very strong slate to choose from in both cases.

The successful candidates for the Board were

   Lou Burnard and Arianna Ciula.

The successful candidates for the Council were

   Piotr Banski, James Cummings, Sebastian Rahtz, and Stuart Yeates.

Board and Council members are elected to two year terms.

I would like to thank all candidates for agreeing to let their names stand for election. As always, we were blessed with a slate of very high quality candidates. As the representative of a member institution, I know speaking for myself that it was very difficult to choose who to vote for.

As a result of bylaw changes recommended by the membership and subsequently approved by the Board we will be holding a special election for two additional board members in the course of the next two months. We will be making announcements about nomination procedures and timelines very shortly.

Thank you again to all candidates!

-dan

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Daniel Paul O’Donnell
Professor of English
University of Lethbridge

Hi all,

The Board recently recommended a series of bylaw changes to the membership for approval at the 2010 members meeting in Zadar, Croatia.

We had a relatively strong turnout from the membership for this vote but fell just short of an official quorum. The vote in favour was unanimous, however.

Because the vote did not make quorum, the bylaws did not pass at the membership meeting. On the basis of what it considered the very strong advice of the membership, however, the TEI Board passed most  of the proposed changes at its annual face-to-face meeting immediately following the conference (because the Board is not allowed to change its minimum and maximum number of members without explicit approval from the membership, it was not able to adopt those aspects of the proposed bylaws pertaining to the size of the Board exactly as they were written). The board also noticed and corrected some additional small errors and inconsistencies and made a few additional changes in the division of responsibilities in its officers. The new bylaws should be published in the next few days.

Thank you to all the members who voted to recommend making these major changes in our administrative and corporate structure.

-dan

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Daniel Paul O’Donnell
Professor of English
University of Lethbridge

Hi all

At the annual membership meeting, there was a strong consensus that changes needed to be made in the organisation of the annual meeting and conference. The two most important recommendations were that the TEI annual meeting get “out of sync” with the annual Digital Humanities conference (i.e. not be held on the same continent in the same year), and that the TEI begin planning its annual meetings two years in advance.

Both suggestions were adopted by the Board. We will therefore be issuing Requests for Proposals to host the TEI members meeting and conference in 2011 and 2012 in the coming few days. In keeping with the request that we not hold the conference on the same continent in the same year as DH, these calls will express a preference for proposals from outside of North America in 2011 and outside of Western Europe in 2012.

Contact information will appear in the calls. But please feel free to contact any member of the board in the meantime.

-dan

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Daniel Paul O’Donnell
Professor of English
University of Lethbridge

In time for the TEI members meeting starting tomorrow, I am glad to say that release 1.8.0 of the TEI Guidelines is now available. I append below the release notes. Nothing very dramatic this time, but the TEI Council has been working on resolving quite a few interesting proposals, so more can expected after Christmas.

You can find 1.8.0 on Sourceforge at http://tei.sourceforge.net/,
online at http://www.tei-c.org/release/doc/tei-p5-doc/en/html/index.html,
in Roma, and as Debian packages at http://tei.oucs.ox.ac.uk/teideb/.

This release has the usual set of small fixes to the reference part of the Guidelines, fixes to the build tools, and associated updates to the processing stylesheets.  The examples in French for most elements (thanks Jean-Luc Benoit and the French I18N team from AFNOR) are now merged into the Guidelines and visible in the documentation.

The table below lists other changes which affect generated schemas.

2010-11-01
 add @status to <elementSpec>, <classSpec>, and <macroSpec>
SF 1933481

2010-11-01
 make <idno> permit macro.xtext
SF 2994666

2010-10-17
 add data.point as datatype for @points on <zone>

2010-09-23>
 make model of glyph consistent with that of char
SF 2834871

2010-09-23
 add <gb> (gathering break)
SF 2859183

2010-09-12
 add <figure> to att.typed

2010-09-13
 multiple values for @evidence

2010-08-05>
 add model.egLike to content for <cit>
SF 3012367

2010-08-03
 add <argument> to model.titlepagePart
SF 3026868

Sebastian Rahtz

The TEI is accepting applications for a new convener(s) of the Education Special Interest Group. Further information about the SIG’s goals and objectives can be found here: http://www.tei-c.org/Activities/SIG/Education/.

This is a fabulous opportunity to contribute to the TEI Consortium. SIG conveners play an important role in the community by furthering its growth and development. If you have an interest in promoting educational activities within the TEI please consider applying.

Applications will be accepted from individuals or two people who would like to jointly convene the SIG. Applications should be sent to Susan Schreibman by 1 December and should contain the following:

1. your name
2. academic affiliation
3. email address
4. reason you would like to lead the SIG
5. vision for the SIG’s future activities

If you would like to speak prior to 1 December about the role, please get in touch. If you are attending the MM we can speak there.

With all best wishes

Susan Schreibman

Dear All,

This is to let you know of a new SIG — “TEI for Linguists”, scheduled to officially open during the Zadar meeting, on Saturday the 12th at 9.00 in room PBS-1. We will also present the SIG during the Friday poster session.

Shortly speaking, the SIG will address the issue of how to make the TEI more accessible to, and more often used by, ordinary linguists who need a smart and tight encoding format for their corpora or lexicons, but also a way to handle trees and feature structures in their Web output.

Everyone is cordially invited. All further announcements will be sent to the SIG mailing list or appear on the wiki page . A more thorough description of the context and aims of the SIG will appear among the official TEI SIG pages  soon.

Looking forward to welcoming a crowdy crowd at our first meeting,

Piotr Banski, Eleonora Litta Modignani Picozzi, and Andreas Witt

Hi all,

The TEI will be holding two important votes at its membership meeting on November 11, 2010 in Zadar, Croatia (for information on the full conference programme, including the members meeting, please see the conference website).

The first of these will be the annual election for vacancies on the TEI Board and Council (see http://www.tei-c.org/Membership/Meetings/2010/mm52.xml for candidate statements); the second will be on significant proposed changes to the TEI Bylaws (see http://www.tei-c.org/Board/2010BylawsProposal.xml for the proposed changes and http://www.tei-c.org/News/#tei-2010-10-08-major_changes_in_consortium_governance_proposals_for_changes_to_bylaws for a brief discussion of the scope and rationale).

Under the TEI Bylaws, the electorate for these ballots consists of the designated representatives of TEI’s institutional membership. Information on how to vote in these elections has now been sent directly to these representatives. An email from the TEI’s membership secretary, Veronika Lux (veronika.lux@atilf.fr), contains information on how to access the electronic ballot system for the Board and Council elections.  An email from the Board Chair, Daniel O’Donnell (daniel.odonnell@uleth.ca), contains information on how to vote by email or in person on the proposed changes to the TEI bylaws. Both emails were sent on October 22, 2010.

If you are the designated representative of a member institution and have not received one or both of these emails, please contain the Board Chair (daniel.odonnell@uleth.ca) or Secretary Sarah Wells (spw4s@virginia.edu), as soon as possible.

Let me encourage you to vote in both these important decisions.

-dan

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Daniel Paul O’Donnell
Professor of English
University of Lethbridge

The electronic ballot for members for elections to the TEI Board and Council for 2011 is now open and information about voting procedures has been sent to TEI electors by Veronika Lux. If you are an elector for your organization and you have not received instructions, please contact Veronika at veronika.lux@atilf.fr.

There are two vacancies on the Board and four on Council. All vacancies are for a two-year term. Candidate statements can be found at http://www.tei-c.org/Membership/Meetings/2010/mm52.xml.

The ballot closes on November 10th. Results will be announced at the Members meeting in Zadar and by email via TEI-L and Members-L.

Thanks a lot for your participation!

Sincerely yours,
Sarah Wells
Secretary & Treasurer, TEI

In keeping with our past practice, we will begin charging a late registration fee of $25 for registrations received on or after October 26th, 2010. This fee is necessary so that we can cover last minute adjustments to catering and the like. Workshop registration will close on October 25, and no registration will be possible after this date.

If you are thinking of coming, please register by October 25th so we can count you in our catering plans. We have an exciting programme arranged with truly superb preconference workshops. Information on the schedule, travel, and lodging can be found here: http://ling.unizd.hr/~tei2010/index.en.html. You can register for the conference and workshops through our webstore: http://www.tei-shop.org/

Thanks… and see you in Zadar!

-dan