TEI Board Meeting: 17 October 2024

Attending: Hugh Cayless, Diane Jakacki, James Cummings, Elisa Beshero-Bondar, Constance Crompton

Regrets: Gimena del Rio Riande, Wolfgang Meier

Agenda Items

• Approval of September minutes (JC proposed acceptance, CC seconded)
• Discussion of joint membership idea that was raised at TEI2024:
  • Those who cannot afford multiple memberships (e.g., SHARP, ESTS, STS, ADE etc) might be interested in bundled membership
    • Could drive engagement, especially regionally
    • Shouldn’t add giant administrative overhead
    • Will continue to discuss in consultation with other TEI-C groups.
• Membership drive -- this will be the big goal for 2024-5
• TEI Community Forums
  • Real enthusiasm for this idea; the Board enthusiastically approves the initiative!
    • Raff and Joey will host two community meetup parties online in November
• Opening TEI-C.slack.com
  • Should we open Slack to the community, as less formal place to post questions?
    • Board approves moving ahead with this initiative, with the understanding that there will be some planning and organization of how Slack will function, who will moderate, etc.
• TEI2025
  • We have received expressions of interest from 2 potential hosts; James Cummings is serving as point-person with bidding organizations.
• Website Content Organization
  • Discussion about how to better manage editorial aspects of website.
  • HC suggested that there be value in establishing a Web Editor position
• Rahtz Prize Update
  • Connie to do a post for the website regarding winner
• SIGs
  • Have been using Media Wiki, which is currently locked and underused
  • The TEI website could be a good place for the SIGs to post content via their own GitHub repo.

Next Board Meeting scheduled for 11/21/2024.