TEI Technical Council Teleconference, 2024-12-10

10:00–11:30 PDT | 13:00–14:30 EDT | 17:00–18:30 UTC | 19:00–20:30 CEST

Present:

• Syd Bauman (SB)
• Helena Bermúdez Sabel (HBS)
• Elisa Beshero-Bondar (EBB, Chair)
• Elli Bleeker (EB)
• Patricia O'Connor (TOC)
• Gustavo Riva (GR)
• Torsten Roeder (TR)
• Martina Scholger (MS)
• Joey Takeda (JT)
• Magdalena Turska (MT)
• Raff Viglianti (RV)

Invited Guests (new Council members starting terms January 2025):

• Ulrike Henny-Krahmer (UHK)
• Martin Holmes (MH)

Apologies/Not Present:

• Sabine Seifert (SS)

Introductions and calendar scheduling

• Welcome to new Council members!
• Happy birthday, Grace Hopper (yesterday), and Ada Byron Lovelace (today)! 🎂
• Decision re next Council meetings in 2025: Second Tuesday of each month: 10:30 PDT | 13:30 EDT | 17:30 UTC | 19:30 CST

Council & Stylesheets Chair Election 🪑

• No spontaneous nominations — EBB to continue × 1 year
• Anyone interested in chairing in 2026 to contact EBB to learn about the duties.
• Stylesheets Chair — HBS happy to continue (if anyone is interested in chairing in the future, contact HBS).

Next Release (4.9.0 & 7.58.0) timing

• Late January / early February 2025
• Issues to close for next release.
• Release technician volunteers: RV, TR, TOC
  • RV asks we conclude by end of January
  • Documentation for release techs: https://teic.github.io/Documentation/TCW/tcw22.html
  • Refridge: Mon 2025-01-20–Tue 2025-01-21
    • Note: Only mild changes to dev, e.g. prose edits. No changes to the schema or Stylesheet code during the refrigeration period.
  • Freeze: Wed 2025-01-22
    • Note: No more commits to dev
  • Release day: Fri 2025-01-24
• MH points out there are 75 issues marked "Needs Discussion".
• MS created a new release milestone for the next release 4.10.0.
• Action on Council: Need to go through tickets to decide which get moved to the next release and update the milestone label to 4.10.0.
• Monitoring a release: Any Council member can join the release tech Zoom and watch the Slack chat.

Mentoring

• MS and HBS to mentor UHK and TR
• SB happy to continue mentoring EB, TOC happy to co-mentor.

TEI Lite 2 Working Group Charge

• Action on Council: Formalise the charge in the December meeting
• Discussion:
  • Are the aims of the working group really larger than the title of the working group suggests?
  • Should TEI Lite be fully conformant to TEI-all?
  • Council endorses this working group forming and continuing investigating and reporting back on progress via slack channels
  • Action on MS: to add the Working Group to the TEI website. [Done.]
  • Group would make its repo(s) inside the TEI-C and shall confer with Council on how best to implement this.

TR: New SIG for Computable Text and Media

• Intention to provide better guidance for encoding computable text and media such as social media posts, e-mail, e-literature, punching cards (as discussed at BA conference), floppy disks etc.
• Would impact some modules and some other chapters of the TEI Guidelines, such as the Representation of Primary Sources.
• Discussion:
  • SIG is needed for tackling unique problems of digitally born texts: RV notes that in helping people with editions on e-literature, hierarchical ordering of hypertext and born-digital documents is different from what we're accustomed to in TEI.
  • Council endorses SIG forming now and to actively recruit participants.
• [following meeting]: TR contacted TEI-L and EBB posted new SIG description to TEI website. [Done.]