RE: ERICSSON has nominated Matt Simpson to Timed Text Working Group

Hi Nigel,

Thanks for the welcome!

I'm Matt Simpson, and I'm the Head of Portfolio for Access Services at Red
Bee Media, a part of Ericsson - and I've been working in that part of
broadcasting / media world for the last 9 or so years. Prior to that I've
worked in real-time computer graphics, representing weather / sports /
election data on screen. 

We are a large provider of real-time and pre-recorded captioning, audio
(video) description and sign language translation services. In my role I
look after, along with my colleague Tom Wootton in our Product team, what
kinds of services and solutions we provide to our customers, and I have been
engaged with various standards definition processes over the last 8 or so
years - in particular the EBU working part that's defined EBU-TT (along with
Nigel).

I'm looking to see what input I can provide to the Working Group with
relation to real-time captioning - as I think outside the worlds of EIA-608
and World Standard Teletext on linear platforms real-time captioning is
struggling to make coherent and straightforward transition to the online
video world.

Thanks

Matt 

-----Original Message-----
From: Nigel Megitt [mailto:nigel.megitt@bbc.co.uk] 
Sent: 03 December 2018 17:29
To: Matt Simpson <matt.simpson@ericsson.com>
Cc: singer@apple.com; tmichel@w3.org; plh@w3.org; Stefan Håkansson LK
<stefan.lk.hakansson@ericsson.com>; Timed Text Working Group
<public-tt@w3.org>
Subject: Re: ERICSSON has nominated Matt Simpson to Timed Text Working Group

Dear Matt,

Welcome aboard! As a rule, we hold weekly telephone conferences on Thursday
(1500 UTC in winter, 1400 UTC in summer) for TTML issues, which I chair, and
cover WebVTT issues as needed on the email reflector under David Singer's
chairmanship, and sometimes on the call.

Would you like to introduce yourself with a quick description of yourself,
your role and what you hope to bring to/get from TTWG?

Kind regards,

Nigel

Co-chair, TTWG




On 03/12/2018, 11:52, "sysbot+ipp@w3.org" <sysbot+ipp@w3.org> wrote:

>  Dear AC Rep, Chair, Team Contact, and Participant,
>
>On December 3, 2018, 11:48  UTC, Matt Simpson became a participant in 
>the Timed Text Working Group. This person was nominated by Stefan
Håkansson.
>
>This also implies that the following commitments were made:
>- to  have reviewed the Process Document on individual participant 
>qualifications (section 3.1 [1]),  Member participation in a Working 
>Group (section 5.2.1.1 [2]) - in particular that (1) the Member will 
>provide the necessary financial support for participation (e.g., for 
>travel, telephone calls, and conferences), and (2) the AC 
>representative attests that the individual accepts the participation 
>terms set forth in the charter [3] -
>- to  agree to the participation conditions described in the Working 
>Group charter [3] For more information on Timed Text Working Group 
>participation, see:
>http://www.w3.org/2004/01/pp-impl/34314/status
>
>1. https://www.w3.org/2018/Process-20180201/#ParticipationCriteria
>2. https://www.w3.org/2018/Process-20180201/#member-rep-wg
>3. https://www.w3.org/groups/w3cgroups/34314/charter
>
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