Dear Board,
Marjorie Burghart recently contacted the Council with a suggestion. She wants to apply to a DARIAH EU grant for sustainability to push forward the development of a free and open TEI/XML editor, in this case a plugin for jEdit. See https://www.dariah.eu/2018/06/29/dariah-theme-funding-call-2018-2019/. Submission deadline is September 9.
We have discussed it in our last Council call and support the idea since there is obviously high demand for a free editor with native TEI support.
We think that the Council's part in this could be to provide data and documentation in a form, where it would be possible to develop a plugin for _any_ XML editor.
Like oXygen plug-in, the newly developed editor should reach into the Vault for source to TEI. We should document how the Vault is structured so that developers can use it appropriately. We then would consider supporting it in the ongoing release process if it conforms to agreed-upon conventions.
We would hope that the Board also supports this effort and would suggest to draft a joint letter of support by the Council and Board for Marjorie to lend more weight to her proposal.
Best wishes,
Martina
