Quick end of year message

Hi all,

Here we are nearly at the end of the year. Somehow it feels like a good moment to reflect on how things have gone during 2018 in the world of “making an open standard file format for exchanging audio description”.

At the beginning of the year, we as a group didn’t exist. So the number one achievement is we came together, agreed a common goal, and set up as the W3C Audio Description Community Group. Well done us!

It took a little while for us to get going, partly while we waited for someone to be able to begin editing a spec document, but on 8th October we got a repository<https://github.com/w3c/adpt/>, and then three good things happened:


  *   First, on 25th October we had our first face to face meeting.
  *   Then on 8th November the Timed Text Working Group published TTML2 as a W3C Recommendation, including audio features, which is really important for us because we want to use them.
  *   Then on 9th November we pushed the first draft of the spec<https://w3c.github.io/adpt/>, gaining rather unfairly from John Birch having unexpected time available to do some editing while he had to be in a local hospital – I hope your wife is recovering well John!

When we began this work earlier in the year, I may have dared to suggest that we might make quicker progress than this, but now seems like a good time to celebrate the progress we have made rather than what we haven’t done.

As the year comes to a close, good wishes to everyone, and for those able to take a break, enjoy it. Let’s make the new year even happier by picking up this work and getting it to a good state in the next 2-3 months.

I’ll be pinging you with some diary dates when I get back in January, for a web meeting. In the meantime if you have any review comments, please raise them as issues at https://github.com/w3c/adpt/issues and if you haven’t already, do set up your notifications on GitHub – I suggest “Watching” the repository. You may even want to look at the existing open issues and add comments to them.

All the best,

Nigel






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