TEI-C Board Minutes: 19 June 2026

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

Regrets: Hugh Cayless, Gimena del Rio Riande

Agenda Items:

  • Approval of minutes:
    • DJ and DG approve
  • Treasurer:
    • DJ agrees to take on treasurer's responsibilities for at least a year, all Board members approved (with overwhelming gratefulness)
    • DJ will approach HC about a meeting with her and JC to hand over
  • Elections 2026:
    • Majority accepted nominations (30 total: 5 for the Board, 23 for the Council accepted)
    • Short bios to be put on the website as news posts via GitHub repo
    • OPA Vote should link back to bios
  • Rahtz Prize 2026:
    • DJ will update us next month. Ulrike Henny expressed with to join the Rahtz Prize team
  • TEI Conference:
    • Nothing to report. JC considers asking for registration statistics but we can still get it from Joey.
  • Council Report:
    • Release scheduled for the end of July (EBB, MH, MS release team)
    • Huma-Num scheduled maintenance caught TEI-C unexpected. MT knows for sure that there were emails going out from Huma-Num repeatedly, so if we're unaware, that's because the wrong email was given to Huma-Num
    • Infrastructure group should have informal representation on Board.
    • MS is happy to lead the Infrastructure group and assure it is meeting regularly on a monthly basis; kick-off might be the 1st week of July
    • MS will prepare AGM report from the Infrastructure Group
    • JC: Inf. Group might benefit from clearer reporting / organizational structure, we should ask MS to join the Board meeting on a more regular basis
  • Membership Drive and Report on consultation:
    • JC notes the draft report is at: [URL Removed, final report at https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21669563]
    • Discussions of social media where ppl might be found; DG: LinkedIn is relatively popular in some circles
    • JC also has report from HC with his perspective on the future of Consortium if we don't increase the membership rates. The rough outline is there will not be P6 without it.
    • DG: timescales for the raise. JC: announced at AGM and effective on Jan 1st. This gives some opportunity to benefit from cheaper rates still.
    • Still a significant number of members uses PayPal, which requires manual processing from the Treasurer, so it would be good to encourage card payments instead.
    • JC will provide EBB a version of the report by HC that can be shared with the Council. Some Council members may struggle with the expensive accommodation in Vancouver.
    • DG: some of the nominees had to decline precisely because of the Council's schedule of two F2F per annum and concerns over needing to pay it out of pocket - might have just been misinformed in that regard.
    • JC: on P6 we likely need a large funding bid with broader partnership which he'd be willing to work on. Elli Bleeker and TOC from the Council are actively looking for opportunities.
  • AOB:
    • JC points out that election informations need to be also put into the Vault (as well as copies of past conference websites; last we have is 22 for elections and 23 for the conference)
    • Hopefully we are storing Conference + AGM info in the Vault
    • Next Meeting: Friday 17 July 2026, 2pm UK Time.