TEI Technical Council Teleconference, 2025-10-07

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

EBB raises question of meeting schedule — should we favor more SVF2F meetings over monthly 1½ hour teleconference calls? Consensus seems to be “no”.

change time to the same as the TEI Council meeting
Idea is to have the Stylesheets meeting consistent with or mirroring the Council sessions
Decision: Hold the Stylesheets meeting during the same time slot as the Council meetings but on the last Tuesday of the month.

Reminder of new Council workflows agreed on at Kraków F2F
- Ticket assignments
- Merging of PRs (Assigned merger must be one of the reviewers)

Action on EBB re Rahtz Prize announcement [done].
- Find out if Board is making Election Results announcement?
- Update Council page

At F2F, Council thought we should do the patch release. However, we should check if this breaks the Stylesheets tests first and, if so, how badly?
Where did we leave this? Can we patch?
It seems there is little demand for Debian packages
Council decision: Leave it til December and see whether we hear any more responses. If we hear complaints we do the patch
Potentially raise ticket about removing support for Debian packages in December if there is no demand for Debian packages

When should we schedule the next release? Early 2026?
- Release team: TR, HBS, TOC
  - Dates to be determined: February as a tentative date?

Check in with James Cummings about potentially meeting in Newcastle for a F2F meeting on P6.
Propose a panel or invite papers on P6 at the TEI 2026 conference:
- Individuals should put forward their ideas for big changes to the TEI.
- JT: Papers proposed for the conference could be incorporated into the TEI conference grant which could cover costs of speakers’ accommodation and flights.

What do we need for curriculum + completion? Completion of two tickets or PRs?
- One tick et might be straightforward, providing mostly the opportunity to do the branch/PR process.
- The other should be more substantial.
Format: Live Zoom sessions only? Or a mix of pre-recorded sessions (command line + git / GitHub orientation) and live calls?
- EBB made slides + video recordings for regular use in DH classes. Can make a "fork' of these to concentrate on TEI repos.
- Other resources for homework + review?
  - TOC's "cheat sheets" / guides?
  - EB’s mentoring notes
  - A learning repository for centralising material and providing resources for people to access and actively use.
  - Chat channel for exchange between contributor candidates
Outreach/invitations: how shall we begin?
- TR: start with selected test herd?
- How do we select the potential contributors:? Should it be invite only or see if there is any interest?
  - Try a Pilot that's invitation only to those who ran for Council?
  - Then public outreach to the wider Community to gauge interest.
- Need a finalised syllabus and repo: Action on: UHK, TOC, and EB by November call.

See Summary of Actions in Kraków F2F notes
Action on EB & TOC to revise TCW 20
- EB & TOC volunteer to review and update the rest of the TCWs.
Critical Apparatus Chapter revision
Guidelines failing accessibility tests
Peter Boot's collection of Processing Model tickets

https://events.ccc.de/2025/09/28/39c3-call-for-participation/ (see https://tei-c.slack.com/archives/C089DBAV39B/p1758493944980859)
Would anybody like to help writing the proposal? (English)
- Due 1 Nov.
- HBS, EBB (others will happily read)
- Action on TR to pin drafts to our Council Slack.