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+# 2024-10-17 ALTO Board Meeting Agenda
+1. Welcome [**All**]
+2. Find and tell a non-offensive, maybe self-deprecating joke before the meeting begins and/or after it ends. [**All**]
+3. Topics to discuss:
+	* Introduction of new board members
+		* Gregor Lanzinger - Transkribus
+		* Stefan Boddie - Veridian
+	* In progress topics:
+		* Vote for https://github.com/altoxml/schema/issues/80 - restrict PointsType to a well formed format
+	* New topics to discuss:
+		* Glyphs should allow CONTENT with length above 1 for cases where no precombined character exists (https://github.com/altoxml/schema/issues/85) (and related https://github.com/altoxml/schema/issues/44)
+		* Make it possible to distinguish hard and soft hyphens (https://github.com/altoxml/schema/issues/86) (and related https://github.com/altoxml/schema/issues/43)
+	* Reminder for updating issue (https://github.com/altoxml/schema/issues/62) (SCHEMATRON validation - checks proposals)
+	* Re-open for discussion: Handwritten documents and ALTO encoding - how to make ALTO more suitable for such documents - ideas (https://github.com/altoxml/schema/issues/81)
+	* New ideas for ALTO 5.0 - specially from new members, from different perspective
+4. Face-to-face meeting proposals: 
+    * ICPR 2024, Kolkata, India, 1st - 5th December 2024
+5. Other business. [**All**]