Hello one and all, and happy new year!
The Sociolinguistic Events Calendar (http://www.baal.org.uk/slxevents.html) is now
bustling with events across the world, and has also been linked to by a number of
event organisers, including NWAV: http://linguistics.utoronto.ca/nwav44/. Meanwhile
the synopsis on academia.edu is apparently in the top 3% of viewed pages this month
(http://academia.edu/9619924). My co-calendariser - Jonathan Kasstan - and I are
overwhelmingly honoured by all this success, acclaim and esteem, which has helped us
keep plugging away at it, but... we are kinda getting a little overworked with it
all. Help us! We're looking to recruit volunteers to help keep this resource going,
since it's not altogether clear how long we can keep going just the two of us.
We're hoping to gather a team of about 5-7, thinking that one person could cover the
various calls that come up on each day of the week. The commitment per person would
be about half an hour a day (plus an hour or so of initial training on how events are
formatted in the calendar). The daily workload is manageable, but pretty constant -
although I suppose it'll vary depending on the time of year (there probably aren't so
many calls in the summer for example).
Please please get in touch if you'd like to step up to this exciting level of
responsibility and celebrity :)
Dave
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Dr. Dave Sayers
Senior Lecturer, Dept Humanities, Sheffield Hallam University, UK
Honorary Research Fellow, Arts & Humanities, Swansea University, UK (2009-2015)
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