TEI Technical Council Teleconference, 2021-06-10

Meeting times:

Present:

Apologies/Not Present:

Next Release: August

Techs: HBS, MS, PS
Not during Balisage! (2–6 August)
PS on holiday before August 9. HBS and MS on holiday in July.
Wed 18 Aug (Freeze Sun 15 Aug; refrigerate Wed 11 Aug)
Meeting times: From July: Thursdays — 10:30 am PDT, 1:30 pm EDT, 7:30 pm CEST
- After-the-fact addition: MH says that time slot is OK.

Discussion about meeting in person.
- Paderborn
- When? Spring 2022 (goal)
- Revisit after elections; watching pandemic.
Full or short meeting for virtual?
- Short
- End of July? August? MS opened a doodle.

http://bit.ly/TEICelections2021
Current members whose terms end at the end of 2021: EBB, MB, JL, MS, PS, MT
Open positions for TEI-C Council
- 4 members (for 3-year term)
- 2 members (for 1-year term)
Discussion about how to handle the two different types of terms.
- There doesn’t seem to be anything on the current form acknowledging that there’s two different term lengths.
- Possibly need a way for people to indicate preferences for 3 or 1 year?
- Top-ranked person gets the first pick of a 3-year or 1-year term.
It's a temporary issue. At the 2023 elections, we will already be in a three-year cycle.
We need to announce the rules of the election and stick to them.
But probably an issue for the Board and the Elections Committee.
JJ will take a summary (written by SB) back to the Elections Committee to take back to the Board for a decision, with a note that clarity in advance is important.
Watch for gender/age/race/academic status balance.

Someone please explain to SB what happened to <altIdent> in the most silly places: Working on 2049 I (SB) find it is no longer allowed in <category>, <joinGrp>, or <taxonomy>. Did I change that? Did someone take <altIdent> out of model.glossLike?
- Answer: Yes, SB changed that. See https://github.com/TEIC/TEI/pull/2032
Multiple nested objects: https://github.com/TEIC/TEI/issues/2152 — We agreed to make it so.

OxGarage plans: PS: At Paderborn, we are currently in the lucky position to have a very skilled developer for working on the OxGarage (part-time, for several years!). While we want to enhance OxGarage for the MEI community, converting Music (notation) file formats, we want to keep a common code base with the TEI’s OxGarage for the benefit of both communities. Plans are to modularize, update and refactor the code base.