TEI Board Meeting: 24 July 2025

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

Agenda Items

  • Approval of June and July Minutes

    • Magdalena Turska moves, James Cummings seconds

  • TEI 2025

    • Room assignment and sessions chair selection are underway
    • The poster session will be nearby other sessions, rather that a dedicated room, so that they can stay up for the duration of the conference
    • The online book of abstracts will be built on the model of previous hosts

  • TEI2026:

    • the hots will provide a slide for TEI2025 AGM

  • Rahtz and Community Prize Updates

    • We have our winners
    • Community Prize language and promotion needs to be firmed up
    • Reluctant to be too prescriptive -- keen not to hamstring future committees
    • It would be great to make a badge that winners could put on their sites. The new logo designer would still be game to work with us
    • Special funding Community Prize campaign (perhaps as part of the membership renewal -- a donate $5 to the Community Prize check box?)
    • We will preserve the Rhatz Prize runner up option

  • Report from Technical Council:

    • Olinguito Release 4.10.0

  • Report on Elections:

    • Nominations and acceptances are in
    • OPAVote. Voting to open on Sept 1 and to end on the 19th before the AGM (can still be announced at the conference)

  • AOB:

    • Discusion of how to proceed with TEI by Example
    • FYI: Slack channel now has 89 members (looks like we’ve added 47 new members via form)
    • Should Slack be mentioned on the main page of the TEI site
    • All in agreemetn about rebooting an editorial group for the website -- an invitation can go out at the AGM and online.