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 * [2020-03-25, Virtual Board Meeting](mei-board/protocols/2020-03-25_Virtual-Board-Meeting.md)
 * [2020-07-23, Virtual Board Meeting](mei-board/protocols/2020-07-23_Virtual-Board-Meeting.md)
 * [2020-10-07, Virtual Board Meeting](mei-board/protocols/2020-10-07_Virtual-Board-Meeting.md)
+* [2021-01-14, Virtual Board Meeting](mei-board/protocols/2021-01-14_Virtual-Board-Meeting.md)
 
 
 ## Elections

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+# 2021-01-14 Virtual MEI Board Meeting
+
+Present: Johannes Kepper, Ichiro Fujinaga, Benjamin W. Bohl, Stefan Münnich, Laurent Pugin, Perry Roland, Kristina Richts, Martha E. Thomae
+
+Absent: Elsa De Luca
+
+Minutes: Martha E. Thomae
+
+## Administrative Chair & Technical Co-Chairs
+Elsa De Luca was re-appointed as Administrative chair. The same was the case for the technical co-chairs: Johannes Kepper and Benjamin Bohl.
+
+There is a pull request in the music-encoding website repository for implementing an automatic link checker to verify which links are broken in the website instead of having someone keeping an eye on it regularly.
+
+## Update on MEC 2021
+- The conference was postponed by two months (we have some submissions already). 
+- Planning for a hybrid conference. The local organizers are looking into streaming ideas so that people who cannot travel---due to restrictions or difficulties getting travel funding---can still join.
+  - wonder.me was proposed as an option for the interaction part of the conference (it could be considered as a "spatial zoom")
+- There are two keynotes already.
+- Looking into options for the proceedings:
+  - Humanities Common
+  - Bavarian State Library
+  - More suggestions will be discussed in the next board meeting (maybe a journal?)
+- We need to add a "news entry" for the delay of the conference so that people can find this information on the starting page.
+
+## Workshops for People Interested in the Development of MEI and Poster Updating the Community about Recent Developer Work
+- Martha will submit a one-page proposal for an ODD Workshop to be held during MEC. In this workshop, we will follow the tutorial ["Understanding ODD"](https://music-encoding.org/tutorials/understanding-odd.html)
+- Johannes will prepare a poster explaining how the different components are connected in the new structure of the music-encoding repositories
+- Both can count on the other board members to assist in these submissions
+
+- Perry's suggestion: Martha and Stefan can be developer workshop coordinators. Preparing together the November developer workshop will give them a chance to learn more about MEI development.
+- Ich: They could focus on organizational details, rather than teaching.
+
+## Current Financial Situation
+We will have a continuous income into the MEI pocket for the following three years.
+
+## Conference (2022) and Developer Workshop (2021)
+- Developer workshop could be held in Montreal (McGill University)
+- Think about options for MEC 2022: Halifax? Victoria? Ottawa?
+
+## ODD Meetings
+The ODD meetings will still be held at the usual schedule:
+- last Friday of odd months
+- last Thursday of even months
+
+## Next Board Meeting
+April 15th, same time (5 pm GMT).