TEI Technical Council Minutes 2016-07

Teleconference 2016-07-29 13:00 UTC

Present

• Hugh Cayless (HC)
• Syd Bauman (SB)
• James Cummings (JC)
• Martina Scholger (MS)
• Elisa Beshero-Bondar (EB)
• Stefan Majewski (SM)
• Elli Mylonas (EM)
• Raff Viglianti (RV)
• Lou Burnard (LB)

Apologies

• Peter Stadler (PS)
• Magdalena Turska (MT)

Agenda and minutes

• Putting TEI Simple to bed (LB)

• Waiting on stylesheets update

• Waiting on Council read-through and corrections

• • Action on everyone to read and edit the document as needed by 2016-08-15 - ODD - HTML, PDF

• Logistics for F2F (SM)

  • Scheduling of other activities alongside F2F, who will have to join workshops and when
    • Schedule: https://www.conftool.net/tei2016/sessions.php
    • MT seems to have a workshop all day Monday
    • Martina and Peter have a workshop Tuesday
    • Airbnb group of 3: EM, EB, RV
    • Meeting Schedule:
      • Sunday 25 September — Meeting 09:00–17:00
      • Monday 26 September — (MT @ workshop?) 09:00–17:00
      • Tuesday 27 September — (MS & PS @ Translatathon?) 14:00–17:00
  • State of accommodation, who is arriving when?

• Sebastian’s Memorial Event

  • Tuesday 27 September; Wolfson College, (TBC: 10:00–16:00: Time in Austria: 11:00–17:00)
  • Council invited to skype in and deliver a short thing saying how much Sebastian meant to TEI etc.
  • Dress Code: Bright/Loud Shirts
  • Suggested Themes: Rome, Southampton, Tex/Latex, TEI, Claros, Archaeology, Running, Open Data, OSSWatch, India, Digital Humanities, Mischief

• "Whither TEI?" session at Members' Meeting

  • See Martin Mueller's piece (posted to the Board/Council list a couple of weeks ago)
  • Council will be running this session. We'd talked about using it as a forum to ask the community questions.
    • Need to figure out the logistics: one hour (plus time in Business Meeting?!)
    • SB proposes 3 quick presentations that raise questions, followed by discussion
    • Need to figure out the questions:
      • Big picture questions: Weak points in the TEI? / Road to P6?
      • LB suggests we should address a lack of understanding in the community about writing ODDs (EB)
      • What it takes to make a small change to the Guidelines? - disagree that showing all the technical details will be compelling (EM) - but maybe explain the infrastructure in general way.
      • Goal: provide more insight into what Council does and how it works - less about software and more about schema? (EM)
    • Roundtable format? But venue might be more like a lecture hall
    • Chair? needs to be someone who can keep things rolling

• Do we want an attribute default value deprecation warning in Schematron? (SB)

  • Aye: silence
  • Nay: HC, JC, LB, SB, SM, EB, EM, MS
  • They “nays” have it (unlike Lincoln)

• Our upcoming cooperative stylesheet educational series (heretofore known as “CSES”) (SB)

  • Only Martin Holmes, EB, PS, Ron Van den Branden, MS, JC, and SB responded to the poll. Thus we 6 get to decide when the meetings will be. E-mail will go out on that topic soon, probably later today. (So if you want input on when they will be, respond to poll within a couple of hours after our conference call.)
  • Action on SB to schedule. At least one before the F2F

• Ticket triage (if there's time. There wasn't.)

  • HC will start assigning issues on 2016-08-02
  • Revisiting @when, @notBefore, and @notAfter on date: https://github.com/TEIC/TEI/issues/1487 (EB)
  • Council thinks leave well enough alone. If you want to use @when that way, then modify in your ODD and document (though you will probably then be non TEI conformant, so better use a different attribute name like @mh:when)