I could see that in the idea: this is an excellent bit of language for making it explicit.
I also agree that that is the place where the most natural interest probably is. AND it reduces what was threatening to become a heavy organisational overhead.
I'm guessing in terms of organisation we are now thinking something like this:
Executive Committee consisting of 4-6 people ideally who are able to spend some modicum of time thinking about it. Membership includes reps from COs (presumably drawn from the people who were interested in it anyway) and is drawn with some eye to distribution of geographic interests or (keeping Oyvind's point in mind, hopefully geography).
Beyond that, no real limit on membership: if you are interested and want to be on the mailing list, you are in.
Mandate is to research, promote, and facilitate global participation in DH across the spectrum: encouraging researchers, institutions, students, etc. to get in contact with each other and collaborate; encourage and foster the development of organisations supporting DH in areas that currently do not have a large presence in the ADHO community, generally focus on encouraging contacts.
That's not so elegantly stated, but I'm sure we've had good language earlier in the discussion.
On 12-10-18 12:34 PM, Neil Fraistat wrote:
Right, Dan. The point would be that Admissions hands off the relevant follow up to the appropriate committee; much of what arises will certainly not concern admission at the organization level.
Neil
On Thu, Oct 18, 2012 at 2:23 PM, Daniel O'Donnell <daniel.odonnell@uleth.ca mailto:daniel.odonnell@uleth.ca> wrote:
I agree. I think this proposal also avoids the potential for conflict in mandate with the Multilingual and MultiCultural committee. Elisabeth was quite comfortable with everything last time we talked, but I have still always worried about mandates clashing in practice or appearance. The only caveat I would suggest to this is is that I think it would be a mistake to see us as working narrowly on admissions issues. GO::DH seems to me to be more community development rather than straight on admissions--though that is obviously not in conflict with admissions. So, for example, a perfectly reasonable result would be an increase in African individual participation in the ALLC, or Latin American participation at DH, rather than the creation of an African or Latin American DH society. I realise that narrowly focussing on admission to ADHO was not what was being suggested. My point only is that if a danger of being not assigned to admissions is that the mandate might start creeping around, a danger the other way is that association under admissions might have a psychological effect of narrowing it. I still think this is a great idea, though. Probably the thing to do is make sure the language about the mission and range of activities is very good. I think there have been some real steps forward here! -dan On 12-10-18 09:10 AM, Marcus Bingenheimer wrote: Neil and Ray, Personally I would be very comfortable working within this framework (GO::DH reporting to Admissions). It seems like a good basis for discussions with prospective ADHO or Centernet members in India and China. marcus -- Dr. Marcus Bingenheimer 馬德偉 Department of Religion, Temple University http://mbingenheimer.net _________________________________________________ globaloutlookdh-l mailing list globaloutlookdh-l@uleth.ca <mailto:globaloutlookdh-l@uleth.ca> http://listserv.uleth.ca/__mailman/listinfo/__globaloutlookdh-l <http://listserv.uleth.ca/mailman/listinfo/globaloutlookdh-l> -- Daniel Paul O'Donnell Professor of English University of Lethbridge Lethbridge AB T1K 3M4 Canada +1 403 393-2539 <tel:%2B1%20403%20393-2539> _________________________________________________ globaloutlookdh-l mailing list globaloutlookdh-l@uleth.ca <mailto:globaloutlookdh-l@uleth.ca> http://listserv.uleth.ca/__mailman/listinfo/__globaloutlookdh-l <http://listserv.uleth.ca/mailman/listinfo/globaloutlookdh-l>-- Neil Fraistat Professor of English & Director Maryland Institute for Technology in the Humanities (MITH) 0301 Hornbake Library University of Maryland 301-405-5896 or 301-314-7111 (fax) http://www.mith.umd.edu/ https://twitter.com/fraistat