Technical Contributor Program

Introduction

The Technical Contributor Program is an initiative by the TEI Technical Council to provide mentoring on how to edit and maintain the TEI P5 Guidelines and Stylesheets repositories to interested members of the TEI community.

Upon completing the program, Technical Contributors will:

• Have a deeper understanding of the TEI Guidelines and Stylesheets source code.

• Know how to use GitHub, Git, Docker, and the command line (bash).

• Be able to edit the Guidelines and Stylesheets.

• Be able to build and test the TEI Guidelines and schemas.

• Know how to address GitHub issues.

• Be able to create and merge Pull Requests.

Procedures

The steps for the various procedures outlined in the lessons are documented in the TEI Technical Contributor Program Guide.

Practicalities

• What does it entail to be a Technical Contributor and how do I become one?

  • Open to anyone in TEI community that is interested in learning about and contributing to the TEI Guidelines
  • Attend some Technical Council meetings
  • Participate in mentoring sessions with Technical Council members