Dear Digital Medievalist community,
I have the pleasure of announcing the results from the DM elections 2012. In no particular order the elected members of the community were:
- Alexei Lavrentiev - Orietta Da Rold - Takako Kato - Timoty Leonardi
I would like to thank the other candidates for standing and providing us with an outstandingly rich choice. The election results were extremely close with all candidates scoring well. Unfortunately only about 10% of the DM mailing list was able to be convinced into voting, which is usual, but I hope that will improve in coming years.
I would also like to say goodbye to Marjorie Burghart and James Ginther who did not stand for re-election. Their contributions will, of course, be missed but I'm sure that they will continue sterling work as community volunteers. (And I would, of course, suggest other people wanting to do volunteer work to contact the DM board.)
This also marks the end of my term as Director of Digital Medievalist (because of the change in the bylaws on term limits we introduced last year to promote a regular changeover of people), and so a sad moment in some ways for me. I have greatly enjoyed the work of trying to steer DM into new developments and ways of working. A lot of DM developments I've been involved with have been behind-the-scenes and I expect that I'll continue providing a certain amount of technical support in that manner as a community volunteer.
The new board will have a meeting as soon as possible and choose a new person from within their midst to be the new director, and this will be announced here.
Best wishes to the new DM board, and the DM community as a whole,
James Cummings (soon-to-be-ex Director of Digital Medievalist)
Maybe it's not of cosmic importance, but worthy enough for the FAQ, yes? . . .
What (very fitting and attractive) font was used to make the <dm/> logo?
-- John
It's not a font. It's a photoshopped composite of an (original) ð and m from an anglo-saxon manuscript that was later turned into a vector image. (Actually gimped, rather than photoshopped).
The d is the body of the ð, the / before the > is from the cross-stroke, and the m is just the m. The < and > are the back stroke of the ð if I remember aright, turned and inverted in the case of <
The MS is Cambridge Corpus Christi College MS 41 (A copy of the Old English Bede) and the letters were from p. 322 (I used it because the B1 scribe has a great clear hand and Cædmon's Hymn is on the page, so I had it in my collection).
I can't remember exactly, any more, but I think it is just the first ð and the first m on the page.
-dan
On 12-07-04 11:34 AM, John P. McCaskey wrote:
Maybe it's not of cosmic importance, but worthy enough for the FAQ, yes? . . .
What (very fitting and attractive) font was used to make the <dm/> logo?
-- John
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:-( Oh well, I was hoping to use it as a font. Northumbria was the closest I found.
It's a wonderful logo.
On 7/4/2012 4:54 PM, Daniel O'Donnell wrote:
It's not a font. It's a photoshopped composite of an (original) ð and m from an anglo-saxon manuscript that was later turned into a vector image. (Actually gimped, rather than photoshopped).
The d is the body of the ð, the / before the > is from the cross-stroke, and the m is just the m. The < and > are the back stroke of the ð if I remember aright, turned and inverted in the case of <
The MS is Cambridge Corpus Christi College MS 41 (A copy of the Old English Bede) and the letters were from p. 322 (I used it because the B1 scribe has a great clear hand and Cædmon's Hymn is on the page, so I had it in my collection).
I can't remember exactly, any more, but I think it is just the first ð and the first m on the page.
-dan
On 12-07-04 11:34 AM, John P. McCaskey wrote:
Maybe it's not of cosmic importance, but worthy enough for the FAQ, yes? . . .
What (very fitting and attractive) font was used to make the <dm/> logo?
-- John
Digital Medievalist -- http://www.digitalmedievalist.org/ Journal: http://www.digitalmedievalist.org/journal/ Journal Editors: editors _AT_ digitalmedievalist.org News: http://www.digitalmedievalist.org/news/ Wiki: http://www.digitalmedievalist.org/wiki/ Twitter: http://twitter.com/digitalmedieval Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=49320313760 Discussion list: dm-l@uleth.ca Change list options: http://listserv.uleth.ca/mailman/listinfo/dm-l
Thanks for mentioning the Northumbria font, which I hadn't heard about -- nice. There's also my <modesty-topos>ahem</modesty-topos> Eadui font at openfontlibrary.org.
PB
On 7/4/12 5:23 PM, John P. McCaskey wrote:
:-( Oh well, I was hoping to use it as a font. Northumbria was the closest I found.
It's a wonderful logo.
On 7/4/2012 4:54 PM, Daniel O'Donnell wrote:
It's not a font. It's a photoshopped composite of an (original) ð and m from an anglo-saxon manuscript that was later turned into a vector image. (Actually gimped, rather than photoshopped).
The d is the body of the ð, the / before the > is from the cross-stroke, and the m is just the m. The < and > are the back stroke of the ð if I remember aright, turned and inverted in the case of <
The MS is Cambridge Corpus Christi College MS 41 (A copy of the Old English Bede) and the letters were from p. 322 (I used it because the B1 scribe has a great clear hand and Cædmon's Hymn is on the page, so I had it in my collection).
I can't remember exactly, any more, but I think it is just the first ð and the first m on the page.
-dan
On 12-07-04 11:34 AM, John P. McCaskey wrote:
Maybe it's not of cosmic importance, but worthy enough for the FAQ, yes? . . .
What (very fitting and attractive) font was used to make the <dm/> logo?
-- John
Digital Medievalist -- http://www.digitalmedievalist.org/ Journal: http://www.digitalmedievalist.org/journal/ Journal Editors: editors _AT_ digitalmedievalist.org News: http://www.digitalmedievalist.org/news/ Wiki: http://www.digitalmedievalist.org/wiki/ Twitter: http://twitter.com/digitalmedieval Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=49320313760 Discussion list: dm-l@uleth.ca Change list options: http://listserv.uleth.ca/mailman/listinfo/dm-l
Digital Medievalist -- http://www.digitalmedievalist.org/ Journal: http://www.digitalmedievalist.org/journal/ Journal Editors: editors _AT_ digitalmedievalist.org News: http://www.digitalmedievalist.org/news/ Wiki: http://www.digitalmedievalist.org/wiki/ Twitter: http://twitter.com/digitalmedieval Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=49320313760 Discussion list: dm-l@uleth.ca Change list options: http://listserv.uleth.ca/mailman/listinfo/dm-l
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