TEI Board Meeting: 27 June 2025

Attending: Diane Jakacki, Elisa Beshero-Bondar, Constance Crompton, James Cummings, Gimena del Rio Riande, Magdalena Turska Regrets: Hugh Cayless

Agenda Items

• Approval of May meeting minutes

  • Magdalena Turska proposes, James Cummings seconds

• TEI-C Site

  • One of Gimena’s students has finished translating the site into Spanish -- the multilingualism dreams are coming true thanks to all this hard work
  • At the moment the site responds to default browser language
  • Hugh Cayless is working on the addition of a button to let users select their language

• Report from Council

  • There will be a new release in August
  • Plan to meet face to face in Lisbon to see if the Pedagogy SIG will take on updates to TEI By Example, with ongoing hosting at Edinburgh

• TEI 2025

  • Early Bird extended to July 8th (after some requests)
  • Tentative programme (without schedule and keynotes) published (linked from news section)
  • Banquet venue confirmed
  • Social programme confirmed
  • SIG conveiners need to confirm by the end of July
  • The new Computable Text and Media SIG will have its first in-person meeting at the conference
  • Board will meet at the Wednesday lunch hour

• TEI 2026

  • UBC has updated their bid with both added costs and added funding
  • Discussion
  • Board officially agrees for TEI2026 to be at UBC

• Rahtz Prize

  • Nominations expected in early June; Committee expects to meet before DH2025
  • Further nominations still welcome

• Elections

  • Over 30 nominations have come in for the 1 Board position and 3 Council positions
  • Magdalena Turska will be in touch with nominees to see if the accept the nomination
  • Candidate statement form will be opn until the end of July; voting open ~August 1- ~September 10

• Other Business

  • There wasn’t room to include a memorial panel for Michael Sperberg-McQueen at DH2025, but Diane Jakacki and Michael Sinatra will say a few words at the openning