Dear TEI Council colleagues, During today's Stylesheets meeting, those Council members present (me, Martina, Hugh, Syd, and James) agreed that we'd like to organize a special meeting for Council members (new and current) to learn how to run build processes locally for both the TEI Guidelines and the TEI Stylesheets, and also to learn how these processes mutually depend on each other. I agreed to get us started to organize it. For this meeting to work, we'll need the people who are experienced and comfortable with local builds to be present (and also to coordinate a bit in advance to help organize how we proceed)--we're looking at Hugh, Peter, Raff, and Martin. :-) We'll prepare a Google Doc for shared writing to improve and update our documentation on local build processes. We're not thinking anyone should have to do this with Jenkins running locally--but we should probably talk about if/when that's a good idea. And we're really wanting this to be a hands-on practice and documentation session of Guidance that Every Council Member can Access to do local builds when needed. When? A fine day in December for about two hours: We thought December would be an appropriate month for this for reasons of it being a time of transition as new members are joining us and in the process of learning more about how the TEI works, and also because it's a moment when for those of us on teaching semesters, we can find a little more time to spend with reconfiguring things on our computers to get things working properly. We also don't want to impose too much on people's holiday time. For right now, we thought we'd start with a fairly narrow window of days, December 18, 19, and 20, and I've opened up a wide range of possible two-hour blocks. Would you respond to the Doodle Poll we've set up to arrange this special meeting? https://doodle.com/poll/savvhuaszhqg4tw6 For the new Council members joining us: Those of us mentoring you will probably want to do an orientation session or two a little ahead of this meeting to help prepare you. Let's start talking about that soon. :-) Thanks, everyone! Elisa -- Elisa Beshero-Bondar, PhD Associate Professor of English University of Pittsburgh at Greensburg Humanities Division 150 Finoli Drive Greensburg, PA 15601 USA E-mail: ebb8@pitt.edu