TEI Technical Council Teleconference, 2019-08-19

Meeting time

Present

Apologies/Not Present

F2F meeting in Graz

The Council needs to be able to undertake any of its duties without being hamstrung by single points of failure.
TEI Website content: who is responsible and who has edit access? Discuss distributed responsibilities.
TEI wiki: are we still editing?
TEI website
- Wordpress should have made it easier for more to edit (Board and Council members).
- Should Council members be editing more than just minutes?
- Can we change the navigation menu structure?
- Project page: schedule an annual sprint to edit?
  - Create a form for adding detail like, “Is your XML visible?”
  - Can Council and Board look at the old form / advise on a new one? Ask Board about this on Board/Council mailing list.
  - Maybe we can circulate the form ahead of the TEI conference each year.

RV fixed a wave of bugs last Friday. Needs to update Roma beta. Nearly ready for release on GitHub.
Should alter old Roma main page (adding a link to romabeta) in a dedicated branch.
Long-term: running Roma and Oxgarage from master branches (aka Docker image:latest) and have extra e.g. dev.oxgarage.tei-c-org for the dev branch.
Council working on description on website: https://romabeta.tei-c.org/.

Constance Crompton wants to get involved in the Ontologies SIG. Interested in developing documentation on best practices for developing triple stores.
Should there be a Linked Data SIG for this separate from the Ontologies SIG? (Ontologies seems more theoretical).
Invite Connie to draft a SIG/working group proposal? Or at least a statement of the problem she would like to solve, so Council can review it with her/guide her a bit. Ask her to draft some parameters.

SS announces that she is stepping down from Council at end of the year.
Bylaws regarding what happens with the rest of SS’s term: “Each Technical Council Member shall be elected for a two-year term, or in the case of an election to fill a vacancy between regular elections, for the term remaining for the vacant position. Terms of office begin at the following January 1 and end on December 31.” The new person would fill one year term. SS and MS should discuss with Kathryn Tomasek on Board.