
<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=us-ascii"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class="">Dear MEI Community,<div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">following a suggestion by the Software Freedom Conservancy GitHub renamed their master-branch to main in order to avoid potentially offensive vocabulary or allusions to slavery.<br class=""><br class="">MEI would like to follow this lead and rename the master-branch of <a href="https://github.com/music-encoding/music-encoding" class="">https://github.com/music-encoding/music-encoding</a> and other repositories where applicable. Following the discussion on GitHub (<a href="https://github.com/music-encoding/music-encoding/issues/776" class="">https://github.com/music-encoding/music-encoding/issues/776</a>) the Technical Team set up this poll to take in the community's votes on a closed list of potential new names for our current master-branch, used to disseminate tagged versions (e.g. MEI 3.0.0, MEI 4.0.0 MEI 4.0.1).</div><div class=""><br class="">Please cast your vote until 2021-04-28 using the form available at:</div><div class=""><a href="https://abstimmung.dfn.de/tNOBDWgWAFtVz6lr" class="">https://abstimmung.dfn.de/tNOBDWgWAFtVz6lr</a></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">On behalf of the MEI Board and Technical Team,</div><div class="">Benjamin W. Bohl</div><div class="">MEI Technical Co-chair</div><div class=""><br class=""></div></body></html>