W3C Publishing Business Group: next meeting Jan 16, new co-chairs, and more

Dear W3C Publishing Business Group members,

 

Happy New Year! We have a lot ahead of us in 2018 and have some
announcements to make regarding the W3C Publishing Business Group (PBG) and
its leadership.

 

The PBG Steering Committee has appointed Liisa McCloy-Kelley (Penguin Random
House) and Luc Audrain (Hachette) as new co-chairs, joining Rick Johnson
(Ingram/VitalSource). Many thanks to  Paul Belfanti (Ascend Learning) and
Cristina Mussinelli (Italian Publishers Association) for their service in
getting the PBG launched and rolling in 2017, including their significant
help on the program for November's Publishing Summit in Burlingame.

 

The next PBG call will be at the usual time slot on Tuesday January 16, noon
ET [1] for one hour. The co-chairs propose the primary agenda topic be a
discussion of overall goals and 2018 objectives for the group and associated
task forces to work the relevant activities to achieve these objectives,
building on a document [2] that has been in development for several weeks.
All PBG members are welcome to suggest edits to this straw-man en route to
the discussion in the meeting. The specifics of the  WebEx call-in access
for the meeting are detailed at [3].

 

In order to increase efficiency and broaden discussions, the current PBG
Steering Committee also proposes to refocus the Steering Committee as`
(currently the Publishing BG, Publishing WG, and EPUB 3 CG) plus the leads
of those PBG task forces established (per above), and the W3C team contacts.
This would create a standing slate, subject to the approval of the PBG as a
whole. In this new mode the Steering Committee, while nominally still of the
PBG, will really be the coordination point for all of Publishing@W3C.

 

Discussion of this proposal will also be on the agenda for the Jan 16 call,
but the candidate slate for the new Steering Committee would not be expected
to be put forward for approval until after the goals and objectives, and
activities to be conducted to achieve those objectives, are agreed (so that
all the relevant task force leads will have been identified, which will
hopefully be accomplished at or shortly after this call). Note that all PBG
members are welcome to volunteer to lead a task force, whether or not you
are currently a Steering Committee member.

 

Proposed Agenda for the January 16 PBG meeting:

1.	Discuss high-level goals for PBG for 2018
2.	Discuss establishing priority task forces to support those goals
3.	Recap and discuss the recent EPUB 3x email chain and consider
formalizing PBG input to CG re: next steps on future of EPUB 3
4.	Establish meeting schedule and logistics for SC and BG
5.	Discuss Steering Committee proposal

 

Bill McCoy, on behalf of the Publishing Business Group Steering Committee.

 

[1]
<https://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?msg=PBG+Telco&iso=201
80116T17&p1=%3A&ah=1>
https://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?msg=PBG+Telco&iso=2018
0116T17&p1=%3A&ah=1

 

[2]
<https://docs.google.com/document/d/1jpw0KA9StAnWZAaIMqnITmdSOchIZeQIvphX5Am
Aulg/edit?usp=sharing>
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1jpw0KA9StAnWZAaIMqnITmdSOchIZeQIvphX5AmA
ulg/edit?usp=sharing 


[3] WebEx Meeting number 313 391 111, dial in +1-617-324-0000. For meeting
password and/or direct Web login, contact Bill McCoy or Ivan Herman (note
that the dial-in data have not changed, you may have it already) IRC: #pbg (
<https://www.w3.org/wiki/IRC> https://www.w3.org/wiki/IRC for intro to
IRC@W3C)