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38 changes: 21 additions & 17 deletions P5/Source/Guidelines/en/FM1-IntroductoryNote.xml
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<div xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" xml:id="FM1">
<head>Preface and Acknowledgments</head>

<p>At the time of this writing, eighteen years have passed
since the TEI first released the fifth distinct
version of the <title>Guidelines for Electronic Text Encoding and
Interchange</title> in 2007. The release of the P5
Guidelines on 2 November 2007 was the happy result of six years of
<p>Since its origins in a snowy conference meeting in November 1987 at Vassar College in Poughkeepsie, New York,
the Text Encoding Initiative (TEI) has worked together as an international community sharing in the ideation,
planning, and drafting of Guidelines for encoding of human- and machine-readable electronic documents. Early versions
of the TEI developed thanks to the combined efforts of editors C. Michael Sperberg-McQueen and Lou Burnard with working
groups in the 1990s and 2000s.</p>

<p>By 2005, the TEI as an organization developed a Technical Council to assist with continued
development and maintainance of the Guidelines, responding to TEI community and supporting workgroups, task forces, and
special interest groups. The fifth distinct version of the TEI, released on 2 November 2007, was the happy result of six years of
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Add "P5" here? "The fifth distinct version of the TEI, called P5 and released on 2 November 2007, ..."

combined efforts of Editors Lou Burnard and Syd Bauman together with
the recently established Technical Council, elected by the TEI community and charged with
the ongoing maintenance and development of those Guidelines as an open-source project.
While TEI P5 has been remarkably durable, it has survived and flourished
the Technical Council, elected by the TEI community and charged with
the ongoing maintenance and development of those Guidelines as an open-source project.</p>

<p>While TEI P5 has been remarkably durable, it has survived and flourished
through several infrastructure transitions and expanded in many
new directions. The success of P5 can be seen in its incorporation of methods for standoff annotation;
community activity supporting internationalization of glosses, descriptions, and examples;
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the dedication of the Board over the years.
The names and affiliations of all Board and Council members who served during the production of
this edition of the Guidelines follow.


<list>
<head>Appointed Editors</head>
<item>2001–2007: Syd Bauman (Brown Univesity)</item>
<item>2001–2007: Lou Burnard (University of Oxford)</item>
</list>

<list>
<head>Board Chair</head>
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</list>
</item>
</list>

<list>
<head>Appointed Editors</head>
<item>2001–2007: Syd Bauman (Brown Univesity)</item>
<item>2001–2007: Lou Burnard (University of Oxford)</item>
</list>

<list>
<head>Technical Council Chair</head>
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<item>2012–2014: James Cummings (University of Oxford)</item>
<item>2015–2017: Hugh Cayless (Duke University)</item>
<item>2018–2022: Martina Scholger (University of Graz)</item>
<item>2023–2025: Elisa Beshero-Bondar (Penn State Erie, The Behrend College)</item>
<item>2023–2026: Elisa Beshero-Bondar (Penn State Erie, The Behrend College)</item>
</list>

<list>
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<p>The Council also oversees an Internationalization and Localization
project, led by Sebastian Rahtz and with funding from the ALLC. This
project, initiated by Sebastian Rahtz with funding from the ALLC. This
activity, ongoing since October 2005, is engaged in translating key
parts of the P5 source into a variety of languages.</p>

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