[tei-council] Council Teleconference Monday 21 October 4pm Oxford time.

[Lou Burnard]

On 20/10/13 23:59, Sebastian Rahtz wrote:
>
> 2) I also attended the Board meeting on behalf of James. I have fed back some things to him. Lou can confirm, but
> I believe the things relevant to Council now are as follows:

The points Sebastian has selected seem the most relevant to council. It 
might be worth also adding that after quite a long discussion, the Board 
did decide to allocate a small sum (10K from memory) to the TAPAS 
project on an experimental basis for one year (renewable).

Other topics raised, not on Sebastian's list:

* education SIG to be reconvened with Michael Gavin as well as James. 
Elena to propose some budget for educational activities (various, discussed)

* TEI website to be moved to service managed by ADHO

* I18N of Guidelines (I need to propose a budget)

* Martin Wynne to take to Clarin Board a recommendation concerning TEI


> *) The Board want us to consider running a TEI Hackathon to get developers together to show what one can if one has decent TEI markup. John Unsworth suggested that,
> for example, we could base this around using the d3.js library to visualize TEI material. We need to debate this. I was supportive of the idea.
>
> *) We need another Council discussion about what a "P6" in the broadest sense would mean. Board asks us to have a brain-storming discussion. More blue-sky thinking.
> Do we need to look again at a Dagstuhl workshop about TEI The Next Generation? (no Deep Space TEI, I thank you)
>
> *) Marjorie B wants us to adopt more cheatsheets (aka Best Practice documents). Add this to agenda for f2f?
>
> *) there was a general discussion about how to put a paper or session into DH2014 about why the TEI still matters. I think
> Elena is taking this forward, but if others want to get involved, they can talk to her.
> --
> Sebastian Rahtz
> Director (Research) of Academic IT
> University of Oxford IT Services
> 13 Banbury Road, Oxford OX2 6NN. Phone +44 1865 283431
>