EPUB 3 Community Group teleconference: Thursday May 4 at 16:00 UTC

Hi Everyone,

We will have the first virtual meeting of the EPUB 3 Community Group
on Thursday, May 4 at 1600 UTC, which is:

9AM in San Francisco
12 Noon in New York and Toronto
4PM in London
6PM in Paris and Amsterdam
9:30PM in Chennai
1AM Thursday in Tokyo (sorry!)

The meeting will be one hour.

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TELECONFERENCE INFORMATION
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Meeting Number: 647 899 534
Meeting Password: [note we can't put the password in this email, but
it's a very simple one, consisting of the first five characters of
this email's subject line, but all lowercase, and skipping spaces]

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or ask on IRC)
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AGENDA
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[1] Introductions... We'd like people to introduce themselves, and
give a brief description of their interests and goals for EPUB. If you
don't feel like speaking up, or can't join the call, feel free to send
an email to this group (public-epub3@w3.org) with the same
information.

[2] Work mode for the community group.  We are hoping to mostly work
asynchronously, through GitHub, email, etc. But calls can be useful
for achieveing consensus, talking through difficult issues, etc. Would
one call a month be enough? Too much?

[3] Topics and subgroups. We have lots of things to work on! Some
potential topics are listed below, but a major goal of the call is to
find out what people are interested in working on.

[A] EPUB 3.1 Maintenance. We already have a few issues
(https://github.com/IDPF/epub-revision/issues) on the 3.1 spec, and
more will certainly appear.

[B] Accessibility. We plan to continue work on the EPUB Accessibility
spec (http://www.idpf.org/epub/a11y/accessibility.html).

[C] The spec formerly known as EDUPUB
(http://www.idpf.org/epub/profiles/edu/spec/). We’ve been discussing
how to approach EPUB for Education . Some parts of the spec may be
worked on in the Publishing Working Group, as part of future versions
of (P)WP/EPUB4. Some parts might be integrated into EPUB 3.1.X, or
become part of the EPUB Accessibility spec. LTI integration and such
might be handled by IMS.


[D] Rendering. We hope to work with reading systems to provide more
and better options for displaying complex or highly-designed books.
For example, we’d love to have images that “bleed”, or extend to the
absolute edge of the screen on one or more sides. This will be both
complicated and fun!

[E] Testing and Validation. My ultimate goal is for EPUB to be as
well-tested as web browsers, but we are a long way from that. We can
figure out what the next steps are, however. We also need to work on
EPUBCheck, which does not yet support EPUB 3.1.


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OTHER USEFUL (AND IMPORTANT) INFORMATION
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IRC
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W3C groups use IRC (Internet Relay Chat) during meetings to take
minutes, manage the queue of people wishing to ask questions or make
comments, providing useful links, etc.

We will use the IRC channel #epub3cg:

channel: #epub3cg
server: irc.w3.org
port: 6665 or 6667

General information on IRC at W3C can be found at
https://www.w3.org/Project/IRC/

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GITHUB
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We have a general repository for the community group at:

https://github.com/w3c/pub-cg

Ivan Herman has written up a helpful guide for newcomers to GitHub at

https://github.com/iherman/misc-notes/blob/master/docs/BasicGitHubContributionIntro.md

If you don't already have a GitHub account, you might want to set one
up before the first call.


Thanks very much, and please let us know if you have any questions.

Dave Cramer
Rachel Comerford
Co-chairs, W3C EPUB 3 Community Group
https://www.w3.org/community/epub3/
public-epub3@w3.org

Received on Monday, 1 May 2017 02:49:57 UTC