Greetings,

I am pleased to report that the minutes for the 2015 TEI Members’ Meeting & Conference “Business Meeting” are available for your review: http://www.tei-c.org/Membership/Meetings/2015/.  

The meeting was run by outgoing Chair of the TEI Board, Elena Pierazzo, who opened the meeting with an important clarification that the “Business Meeting” is a meeting for the members and serves as a way to report on the TEI-C current and upcoming activities.  The Business Meeting also provides an opportunity for the members to respond to these activities.  

Before highlighting the main discussion points, I would like to thank Elena for serving as Chair of the TEI Board these last four years. Thank you, Elena!

Four main activities were highlighted for 2015:  TEI Hackathon that took place at the 2015 Digital Humanities conference, TAPAS, TEI Simple, and free, one-time memberships for individuals enrolled in TEI-branded workshops. More detailed reporting about TEI Simple and TAPAS followed later in the agenda.  The latter activity regarding one-time free memberships raised the most discussion, as captured in the minutes.  

The Council has been active and busy as always — resolving issues and introducing new features — in addition to migrating TEI source files and related style sheets from SourceForge to GitHub.  Another significant task upon the Council is figuring out a sustainable management plan for the various TEI stylesheets created and formerly managed by Sebastian Rahtz.  

The Council encourages interested parties at large to contribute to pending issues and bugs: https://github.com/TEIC/TEI/issues.  

The SIG reports were solicited last minute so we only heard from three SIGs: Ontologies, Linguistic and Libraries, all three reporting lively meetings and lots of upcoming activities.  

TEI Simple, a project partially supported by the TEI-C, is well on its way with the first use case implementation by Joe Wicentowski from the United States Office of the Historian. Joe migrated a data set to Simple and his code was reduced by ⅔.  More on TEI Simple in the Minutes and here: https://github.com/TEIC/TEI-Simple. 

TAPAS (http://beta.tapasproject.org), another project partially supported by the TEI-C, is in the process of releasing version 2.0, which offers along with publishing and access services, archiving services for storing TEI files of unlimited quantities for 20 years at no cost.  Access to TAPAS is provided as a TEI-C member benefit.  

Martin Holmes, outgoing managing editor of the TEI Journal, provided an update on the publication of “monster issue 8” comprised of selected papers from the TEI-C 2013 Members’ Meeting and Conference.  Issue 8 prompted some interesting editorial changes that will be implemented moving forward including a rolling publication model and thematic sections.  Check out the minutes for more good stuff about JTEI.  

The good news from TEI-C Treasurer, John Unsworth, is that we are “in the black!”  We brought in approximately $78,000 mostly from membership dues and spent approximately $65,000.  Check out the minutes for an overview of expenditures.

Finally, the super exciting part of the Business Meeting — announcing election results and hosts for the 2016 and 2017 TEI-C Members’ Meeting and Conference.  

This year we had one of the largest slate of Council candidates — lots of new people and balanced representation.  Those elected were already announced by Elena last month, but here they are again:

	• Elected members for the Board of Directors:
		• Kathryn Tomasek
		• Pip Willcox
	• Elected members for the Technical Council:
		• Elisa Beshero-Bondar
		• Peter Stadler
		• Magdalena Turska
		• James Cummings
		• Elli Mylonas
		• Martina Scholger
	• Elected Members for the TAPAS Advisory Board:
		• Magdalena Turska
		• Elena Gonzalez-Blanco
		• Molly O’Hagan Hardy
		• Susanna Allés-Torrent

Big congrats to those elected and huge thanks to those who stood for election.  

In 2016, the TEI-C MM and Conference will be hosted by the Austrian Centre for Digital Humanities and the Austrian Academy of Sciences in Vienna! The conference is slotted to occur in September.

In 2017, the TEI-C MM and Conference will be hosted by the University of Victoria in British Columbia sometime in November.

A call for hosts for 2018 will be issued early 2016.  Stay tuned for that!

The Business Meeting ended with a few topics that were further discussed by the Board on the following day regarding the migration of the TEI-C web site, management of financial matters, and TEI-C election protocols and calendar.  The Board meeting minutes from 2015-11-01 will soon be posted.  Once posted, I will also sum up those and highlight resolutions for the above topics.  

Happy New Year,
Michelle Dalmau
Secretary, TEI-C Board of Directors 

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