TEI-C Board Meeting 2020-09-17

via zoom

Attending

  • Kathryn Tomasek (KT)
  • Gimena del Rio Riande (GRR)
  • Christiane Fritze (CF)
  • Hugh Cayless (HC)
  • James Cummings (JC)
  • Martina Scholger (MS)
  • Pip Willcox (PW) (17:34 onwards)

Absent

  • Luis Meneses (LM)

Action items from last meetings

  • see Asana

Agenda

  • Meeting Procedures and Other Announcements
  • Election
  • Updates
    • Internationalization strategy?
    • Virtual TEI business Meeting in October?
    • Communications Manager
    • Rahtz Prize
    • Website: structure and content (HC)
  • Any Other Business

Minutes

  • Meeting Procedures and Other Announcements
    • Approval of last meeting minutes:
        • JC, GRR: approve pending correction from Laurent.
      • todo CF sends Laurent the agenda snippet and asks him for addition of the missing information:
  • Election
    • we are ready to post a slate on Monday 21 September 2020
    • we have a sufficient number of people to run for the board
      • todo KT to post the slate to
        • the TEI-C mailing list and to
        • the memberships
      • todo HC to put it on the website under the standard place (somewhere with the Members Meeting/apricot?) c.f. https://tei-c.org/Vault/MembersMeetings/2018-info/mm79.html
      • todo GRR to post via Twitter
      • todo MS to announce it in Facebook
    • Announce date of MM at the same time
      • 19 November 2020
      • Victoria 8 AM
      • Providence 11 AM
      • Buenos Aires 12 noon
      • London 3 PM
      • Vienna/Graz 5 PM CET
      • via zoom
      • KT to check a new zoom link
  • Updates
    • ISO
      • KT to forward Lou’s reply
      • Council needs further information from Laurent; he will join a meeting of theirs to give them more information
      • KT to forward the email of Detlev Reineke with the mentioned attachments
    • Internationalization strategy (HC)
      • the planning grant proposal is kicked back again
      • draft due Oct 26 for planned consideration in December, if approved to start in January
      • focus on development work, with possibility of something else from Internationalization Group
      • GRR event in Argentina in November: possible TEI translate-a-thon
    • Communications Manager
      • KT has no time to work on this
      • we left this in July
      • we did not get any response
      • TODO announce it again
      • KT and MS and PW will work on this
    • Rahtz Prize
      • The committee has met and chosen a winner. We will announce it at the MM on November 19.
    • Website: structure and content (HC)
      • HC has not the time it needs; writing the time into the Mellon proposal.
      • MS: ask for a meeting how we plan to restructure the website
        • who should go in: Council, Infrastructure Group and Board representatives, we could also coopt people on this, eg an UE expert
        • generate discussion points and questions for a survey (Google forms) in a google doc for Board, Council, and Infrastructure Group
          • PW: someone who knows the website well should draft the questions?
            • what do you think is wrong with the website (focussed on particular aspects we’ve identified)
            • what do you think we should offer?
            • final question: in your wildest dreams…
            • CF to set up a Google doc for our complaints about the TEI website
            • CF to circulate it to the Council and the IG and to the Board
            • deadline: (10 days for working on it)
        • in parallel: develop a survey to be circulated on the TEI-L and establish a website restructure group
          • CF, PW, HC, GRR
  • Any Other Business
    • none

Date of next Meetings

Every month on the Third Thursday

  • Oct 15, 2020 11:00 AM Eastern Time (US and Canada)
  • Nov 19, 2020 11:00 AM Eastern Time (US and Canada) ← Member’s Meeting
  • Dec 17, 2020 11:00 AM Eastern Time (US and Canada)

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  • Jan 21, 2021 11:00 AM Eastern Time (US and Canada)