[tei-council] [tei-board-council] revised bylaws

[Brett Barney]

There are quite a lot of capitals here (e.g., "Bylaws," "Consortium Members" and "Consortium Officers" where I would have expected "bylaws," "Consortium members" and "Consortium officers"), so I suspect some underlying rule of which I'm unaware. Assuming that's the case, here are a few missed capitalization opportunities:

"Each member may hold membership"
"Special Meeting of members" (twice in this paragraph)
"shall not be cast at that meeting."
"A member may designate"
"details of that proxy"
"The officers of the Consortium"
"and not in any officer or officers."
"the secretary shall carry out"
"The membership secretary shall . . ."	(Throughout this paragraph the capitalization czar seems to have napped.)
"elected by the membership" (twice in this paragraph)
"In the case of a special meeting of the Board . . ."	(several in this sentence)
"Notice of all meetings of the Board of Directors . . ." (whole paragraph)
"each new member of the Consortium"
"at a regular or special meeting,"

Other miscellaneous thingies:

"The Bylaws also specify"	

	I don't see a need for "also"

"to the Secretary of the Consortium or other Officer."	

	Does this mean *any* other officer? If so, fine as worded.

"terminate a membership (or subscribership or sponsorship)"	

	There'll be no "subscriberships," right?

"member and subscriber rolls and direction and development of membership and subscription benefits"	

	same

"and will serve as the chief technical officer"	

	"shall" seems to be preferred elsewhere.

"preside at all meetings of the Technical Council, and report on its activities"	

	No comma

"monitoring, evaluating, and acting upon requests for new features and correction of errors in the TEI Guidelines provided by the TEI Community."	

	I suggest: "monitoring, evaluating, and acting upon requests from the TEI Community for new features and correction of errors in the TEI Guidelines."


On Jun 26, 2013, at 12:38 PM, Lou Burnard wrote:

> As light relief from the excitement of watching the forthcoming P5 
> release take shape, members of Council  may wish to take a look at the 
> revised draft of the TEI Bylaws which the Board wishes to get out for 
> the membership to vote on as soon as possible.
> 
> The main changes are to expand the TEI electorate: individual members 
> (formerly known as "subscribers") will now be able to vote in elections 
> for the Council; to clarify the relationship between Board and Council;  
> and to abolish a lot of unnecessary verbiage. I have to draft a summary 
> document listing the changes, probably by this weekend some time.
> 
> See http://www.tei-c.org/Board/bylaws2013.xml for the new draft. The 
> old/current version is at http://www.tei-c.org/About/bylaws.xml
> 
> There is some urgency to this, as we are already a bit late setting up 
> the elections for this year and would like to ensure that that's done 
> under the new by laws. So please make your comments pithy, precise, and 
> capable of being acted upon speedily. Point out a missing comma, typo, 
> or lexical error and I will be your best friend forever. Point out a 
> policy you think is completely mistaken and which has to be debated for 
> the next few weeks before it can be resolved, and I may not.
> 
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Brett Barney
Associate Research Professor
Center for Digital Research in the Humanities
bbarney2 at unl.edu