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The TEI is a community standard and is strongly guided by the needs and interests of
its users. There are a number of ways for users—both TEI members and
non-members—to contribute to the Guidelines and participate in their
development and dissemination.
The TEI conducts the active development of the TEI Guidelines at its SourceForge site, which includes
forms for submitting feature requests and for reporting bugs or errors in the
Guidelines. If you identify an area where the TEI needs further development, we
welcome your suggestions; these may also be made more informally on the TEI-L discussion list. The TEI develops new areas of the TEI Guidelines by establishing workgroups,
which are commissioned by the TEI Council and typically focus on a specific
topic or textual feature. Workgroups are composed of experts in the field in
question, and meet at intervals (in person or via conference calls) to discuss
encoding approaches and write documentation until the commissioned module is
complete. Anyone with the requisite expertise and TEI knowledge may be selected
to participate in a workgroup. The governance and technical oversight of the TEI Consortium are conducted by
the TEI Board and TEI Council. With some exceptions, TEI
Board and Council members are elected by the TEI membership at the annual TEI
elections. A call for nominations is issued each summer and self-nominations are
welcomed. The TEI SIGs are self-organizing groups focused on specific topics of interest
to the TEI community. In some cases they may form around a particular encoding
area and may develop ideas for further development of the Guidelines.The TEI-L discussion list is the broadest and easiest way to participate in
the development of the Guidelines. In addition to general discussion of encoding
issues, at intervals the Council or editors may post requests for suggestions or
feedback on specific aspects of the Guidelines. Participation is warmly welcomed
from novices and experts alike. The wiki is a collaborative virtual space where members of the TEI community can
provide descriptions of TEI-related tools and projects, develop documentation,
share training materials, and exchange information that will
help further the goals of the TEI and its users. Anyone may edit the wiki
pages after creating a user account (a very simple process). Although the TEI offers documentation and training for use of the TEI
Guidelines, the vast majority of training and dissemination of the TEI is
performed by the TEI community itself. Materials developed by individuals and
projects—project documentation, handouts, lecture notes and slides,
and the like—provide an extremely valuable source of information for
other TEI users and projects. If you have developed materials which you would
like to share, or if you conduct regular TEI training events, they may be listed
on the pages maintained by the TEI
Education SIG.