There are aspects of work on Council on which I'd personally like a more thorough briefing and discussion, and perhaps a TCW, and I'd submit that one area that needs work is an explanation to completely new people of:

For me:  Testing, updating local tests, updating expected results of tests: when does this need to happen? When is it best to build and test locally? What is the best way of going about it and what do I need to install on my computer to do local testing?
*  I realize this may seem very basic to most of us, and it's not as if I'm totally clueless about it, but I'd like a clear explanation of it somewhere because it's not a thing we do every day, and those of you who do this frequently just know it without having to look stuff up. (So I wind up relying on you without investigating because, well, you're there...until you are not!) So I think we can make a better on-ramp about all things to do with the technical aspects of testing.

For complete beginners:
How Council runs on GitHub. What you will need to know about GitHub to do work with Council
* What happens when you make a push to the Guidelines repository 
* When to make pull requests, and wait, what even is a pull request. (Some of our new members will not know this and may be be embarrassed to ask.)

Elisa

On Tue, Oct 1, 2019 at 9:40 AM Hugh Cayless <philomousos@gmail.com> wrote:
Absolutely! 

Fwiw, I'm happy to mentor also, though it sounds like we may have enough people already :-)

H

On Tue, Oct 1, 2019 at 8:42 AM Scholger, Martina (martina.scholger@uni-graz.at) <martina.scholger@uni-graz.at> wrote:

Good point.

And I think we should collect and update our documents on “how to get started” (edit the guidelines, testing, etc.). It’s on the agenda for our next meeting.   

 

Best,

Martina

 

Von: Elisa <ebbondar@gmail.com>
Gesendet: Dienstag, 1. Oktober 2019 14:16
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Cc: Scholger, Martina (martina.scholger@uni-graz.at) <martina.scholger@uni-graz.at>; TEI Council <tei-council@lists.tei-c.org>
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And I am happy to help with mentoring, too. When I spoke of distributing the tasks, I regularly teach students how to get stared with shell commands, git, and GitHub, and I suspect at least a couple of our new people may want an orientation in that. I wonder if it makes sense to divide up some of the orientation tasks among a group of mentors...just thinking out loud. 

 

Elisa

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On Oct 1, 2019, at 8:12 AM, Raffaele Viglianti <raffaeleviglianti@gmail.com> wrote:

I'm happy to help with mentoring

On Tue, Oct 1, 2019, 8:11 AM Scholger, Martina (martina.scholger@uni-graz.at) <martina.scholger@uni-graz.at> wrote:

Hi Elisa,

 

Oh sorry, what I wanted to say is that we need three mentors.

 

Best,

Martina

 

Von: Elisa <ebbondar@gmail.com>
Gesendet: Dienstag, 1. Oktober 2019 14:05
An: Scholger, Martina (martina.scholger@uni-graz.at) <martina.scholger@uni-graz.at>
Cc: TEI Council <tei-council@lists.tei-c.org>
Betreff: Re: [Tei-council] Mentoring new Council members

 

Martina— Do you think it best for one Council member to mentor all three? That would seem to require a mentoring program rather than something more informal...it may be a bit daunting for one to take on mentoring three people. Can we maybe put it on the Council agenda to discuss how best to distribute and plan a mentoring process? I want to help mentor but not sure I would do a good job of it with three people to watch out for. 

 

Elisa

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Director, Center for the Digital Text

Associate Professor of English 

University of Pittsburgh at Greensburg

150 Finoli Drive, Greensburg, PA 15601 USA

E-mail: ebb8@pitt.edu | Development site: http://newtfire.org

 

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On Oct 1, 2019, at 6:11 AM, Scholger, Martina (martina.scholger@uni-graz.at) <martina.scholger@uni-graz.at> wrote:

Dear all,

 

I wanted to ask who is willing to serve as a mentor to our three new Council members.

 

Best,

Martina

 

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