TEI-C Board Minutes: 23 January 2026

Attending: Elisa Beshero-Bondar, Hugh Cayless, James Cummings, Diane Jakacki (chair), Dimitra Grigoriou, Magdalena Turska (later)

Regrets: Gimena del Rio Riando,

Agenda Items:

  • Approval of minutes
    • Approved: James and Dimitra
  • Election of Board officers
    • Treasurer / Membership Secretary re-confirmed: Hugh Cayless
    • Secretary: Magdalena Turska
    • Chair: (Shifted to Slack discussion to ensure everyone has a say.)
    • Thank you to Diane for serving as Chair!
  • jTEI Editorial Board Update
    • Johannes Klepper has been invited to join the jTEI Editorial Board; Joel Kalvesmaki has asked the Board for our approval/recognition of the addition
    • Board approves this appointment
    • Board recollects that we approved to cover TEI conference travel for 1 representative of the jTEI Board to attend the TEI Conference and report to the Board.
  • Conference Updates
    • TEI 2026: CFP launched
    • SSHRC funding grant successful!
    • TEI 2027: No progress over the holidays, JC will liase
  • Membership Drive
    • Responses coming in from membership consultation survey
    • JC will create a report from the results and provide draft to Board.
  • Council Report
    • Council F2F in Würzburg: week of March 8
    • Wanted a release before next meeting, at which will talk more about TEI P6
    • New SIG TEI and AI Tools
  • AOB
    • Move to Huddles on Slack? - Discussed, gets away from requirement for institutional accounts
    • Upcoming Meetings: to be determined by new chair - slack poll
    • TEI Bylaws are still the out of date version that says only Institutional Members can elect board of directors.
      • TEI version should be the canonical one, but now we have divergent versions in TEI Bylaw Revision Google folder
      • Make sure that the website builds from the updated version
    • Thank you to Diane for serving as Chair!
    • TEI Council's plans from Krakow F2F to invite P. Boot and Magdalena to a F2F discussion. Given that at this point it's rather short notice, MT suggests to have a period of "homework" for Council (and anyone else) to familiarize ourselves with the discussions on TEI Github and comment on that before agreeing on a date for online meeting to discuss the matters. EBB agrees, suggests moving this to a Council call after the spring F2F.