Technical team
The Technical Team consists of interested developers and two Board-appointed Co-Chairs. The Co-Chairs act as administrative chairs of the Technical Team, e.g., calling meetings and coordinating development efforts. They also have administrative privileges for the MEI repositories. The MEI Technical Team holds regular virtual and in-person meetings, maintains the MEI repository on GitHub (https://github.com/music-encoding), prepares new releases of MEI by reviewing and implementing revisions and features requested by the community, and supports the wider MEI community with their technical expertise.
- Benjamin W. Bohl (Technical Co-Chair), Institut für Musikwissenschaft, Goethe Universität Frankfurt, Frankfurt am Main and Musikwissenschaftliches Seminar Detmold/Paderborn
- Stefan Münnich (Technical Co-Chair), Anton Webern Gesamtausgabe, University of Basel
- Sophia Dörner, Göttingen State and University Library
- Ichiro Fujinaga, McGill University, Montréal
- Andrew Hankinson, RISM Digital Center, Bern
- Johannes Kepper, Musikwissenschaftliches Seminar Detmold/Paderborn
- Laurent Pugin, RISM Digital Center, Bern
- Klaus Rettinghaus, Enote GmbH, Berlin
- Perry D. Roland, Charlottesville
- Daniel Röwenstrunk, Musikwissenschaftliches Seminar Detmold/Paderborn
- Craig Sapp, Center for Computer-Assisted Research in the Humanities, Stanford University
- Martha E. Thomae, McGill University, Montréal
- Raffaele Viglianti, Maryland Institute for Technology in the Humanities
- Thomas Weber, Notengrafik Berlin GmbH
MEI ODD meetings
MEI ODD Fridays and ODD Thursdays are a monthly video conference call with anyone interested in the development of MEI. During these calls, we discuss open pull requests with additions to and revisions of both the MEI Schema and Guidelines. There are two requirements for accepting changes:
- There have to be matching proposals for both the Schema and the Guidelines (i.e., changes without proper documentation won’t get accepted, but may collect feedback),
- there needs to be wide acceptance for these changes at the meetings and in the corresponding PRs.
If a proposal doesn’t match these two criteria, it will be postponed and should be revised for the next ODD meeting.
We aim to organize, schedule, and document these meetings with the help of a GitHub dashboard: https://github.com/orgs/music-encoding/projects/9. We also plan to send out timely reminders in advance of these meetings. The intention is to increase both comprehensibility and transparency of the MEI development workflow, and make it more accessible and inviting to newcomers.
The schedule for these developer workshops is the last Friday of every odd month, and last Thursday of every even month, at 3pm UTC (in summer) resp. 4pm UTC (in winter). Calls are scheduled for:
2024
- November 29, 2024 13:00 UTC ODD Friday
- October 31, 2024 13:00 UTC ODD Thursday
- September 27, 2024 12:00 UTC ODD Friday
- August: summer break
- July 26, 2024 12:00 UTC ODD Friday
- June 27, 2024 12:00 UTC ODD Thursday
- May 31, 2024 15:00 UTC ODD Friday
- May 20–23, 2024: MEC conference
- Apr 25, 2024 15:00 UTC ODD Thursday
- March 22, 2024 16:00 UTC ODD Friday
- March 6, 2024 15:00 UTC ODD Thursday (= Wednesday)
- January 26, 2024 16:00 UTC ODD Friday
- January 18–20, 2024: Developer workshop, Vienna
ODD meetings in 2023
* November 24, 2023 4pm UTC ODD Friday
* October 26, 2023 3pm UTC ODD Thursday
* September 28, 2023 2pm UTC ODD Friday
* September 4–8, 2023: TEI/MEC conference
* August: summer break
* July 28, 2023 3pm UTC ODD Friday
* June 29, 2023 3pm UTC ODD Thursday
* May 26, 2023 3pm UTC ODD Friday
* Apr 27, 2023 3pm UTC ODD Thursday
* March 31, 2023 3pm UTC ODD Friday
* February 23, 2023 4pm UTC ODD Thursday
* January 27, 2023 4pm UTC ODD Friday
ODD meetings in 2022
* November 25, 2022, 2pm UTC ODD Friday
* October 27, 2022, 1pm UTC ODD Thursday
* September 23, 2022, 1pm UTC ODD Friday
* August: Summer break
* July 29, 2022, 1pm UTC ODD Friday
* June 30, 2022, 1pm UTC ODD Thursday
* May 27, 2022, 1pm UTC ODD Friday
* April 28, 2022, 1pm UTC ODD Thursday
* March 25, 2022, 2pm UTC ODD Friday
* February 24, 2022, 2pm UTC ODD Thursday
* January 28, 2022, 2pm UTC ODD Friday
ODD meetings in 2021
* November 26, 2021, 3pm UTC ODD Friday
* October 28, 2021, 2pm UTC ODD Thursday
* September 24, 2021, 1pm UTC ODD Friday
* July (to be announced: during MEC, 19-22 July), ODD Friday
* June 24, 2021, 1pm UTC ODD Thursday
* May 28, 2021, 1pm UTC ODD Friday
* April 29, 2021, 1pm UTC ODD Thursday
* March 26, 2021, 1pm UTC ODD Friday
* February 25, 2021, 1pm UTC ODD Thursday
* January 29, 2021, 1pm UTC ODD Friday
ODD meetings in 2020
* November 27, 2020, 1pm UTC ODD Friday
* October 29, 2020, 1pm UTC ODD Thursday
* September 25, 2020, 1pm UTC ODD Friday
* August 27, 2020, 1pm UTC ODD Thursday
* July 31, 2020, 1pm UTC ODD Friday
* June 25, 2020, 1pm UTC ODD Thursday
* May 25, 2020: during MEC Boston
* March 27, 2020, 1pm UTC
* January 31, 2020, 1pm UTC
ODD meetings in 2019
* November 29, 2019, 1pm UTC