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

[Sebastian Rahtz]

On 21 Oct 2013, at 11:16, James Cummings <james.cummings at it.ox.ac.uk> wrote:
>> *) 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.
> 
> I'm generally supportive of that idea as well. Would it make 
> sense to do it in conjunction with the TEI Conference? Or another 
> conference like DH2014?

probably DH, since the idea is to excite people about TEI

> 
>> *) 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)
> 
> It seems reasonable to re-examine the issue.  In general I'd 
> argue a conservative tack here since we came up with a policy 
> when creating P5, as part of the Birnbaum Doctrine, and with the 
> specific idea that P5 would continue to have successive versions.

sure. call it TEI NG instead of P6 if you want. my view would be a TEI fork,
rather than a replacement for P5
> 
> I think included in such a discussion should also be our release 
> structure within P5 more generally. Not really the process, but 
> the structure. There might be benefits if we move to a 'stable' 
> vs 'development' kind of structure as seen in many projects.

true. but I'd regard that as a separate issue

I'm talking about (e.g.) TEI as RDF, or TEI as HTML class values,
not something which competes with XML


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