Re: Let's introduce ourselves

Hi There,
I'm Micah Bowers, the Founder and CEO of Bluefire. We've been creating ebook reading systems since 2005. We worked with Adobe to develop their "current" ebook platform, and then Sony, BN, and many others - having now worked with over a hundred companies in 37 countries in the ebook industry. I'm also a cofounder of the Readium Foundation and the Readium SDK Project. Latst few years we've mostly been working in the Academic Library space, and most lately have been developing technologies for reading (and authoring!) ebooks in web browsers with robust content protection.  I'm looking forward to seeing colleagues outside of the small Bluefire team for the first time in years, next month, at the London Book fair.

-Micah

One Does Simply Put a Book in a Browser

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From: Silvia Lifman <slifman@gmail.com>
Sent: Tuesday, March 15, 2022 2:38 PM
To: Bill Kasdorf <bill.kasdorf@w3.org>; Laura Brady (She/her) <laura@legible.com>
Cc: Reid, Wendy <wendy.reid@rakuten.com>; W3C EPUB 3 Community Group <public-epub3@w3.org>; Liam R. E. Quin <liam@fromoldbooks.org>
Subject: Re: Let's introduce ourselves


Hello everyone,

I am Silvia Lifman, I live and work in Argentina editing books since the first version of InDesign in 1999 and ebooks since 2010.

I am an accessibility consultant at the National Technological University of Buenos Aires.

I am certified by Adobe in several applications and I am very interested in continuing to experiment especially with the Epub format.


Silvia

slifman@gmail.com<mailto:slifman@gmail..com>



On 15 March 2022 at 18:14:15, Laura Brady (She/her) (laura@legible.com<mailto:laura@legible.com>) wrote:

Great idea!

Hello all. I am Laura Brady.. I am the head of accessibility at Legible Inc. in addition to being a general accessibility busybody. I've made thousands of ebooks, advised dozens of publishers on how to make ebooks, harassed the InDesign engineers for years to do better (and am making progress!), in addition to sitting on the board of the Accessible Books Consortium and eBound Canada. I have really good intentions when it comes to the W3C meetings (the community group, the working group, etc.) but find my calendar frequently overwhelmed and double booked.

LAURA BRADY
Head of Accessibility
Legible Inc.


On Tue, Mar 15, 2022 at 5:01 PM Bill Kasdorf <bill.kasdorf@w3.org<mailto:bill.kasdorf@w3.org>> wrote:
Hi, folks!

I'm Bill Kasdorf. I'm a publishing technology consultant (modeling,
markup, metadata, workflows, etc.--ALL of which involves accessibility,
which is a prime focus) and a big believer in standards (which is why
I'm the W3C Global Publishing Evangelist: I'm a cheer leader). I've been
involved in the development of EPUB for many years, though I'm not as
technical as most of those who have been (I'm not a developer). I'm a
member of many standards and standards-oriented groups--all the
publishing activity at the W3C is primary; also BISG, the Book Industry
Study Group; SSP, the Society for Scholarly Publishing; IPTC, the
standards organization for the global news media; the DAISY Consortium
for accessibility; and I co-chair two NISO working groups. Most of my
consulting work is in the areas of scholarly and scientific publishing
and higher education (and that accessibility project that Pascal
mentioned, if I'm correct that it's FRAME you were talking about,
Pascal).

--Bill

On 2022-03-15 14:56, Reid, Wendy wrote:
> Hi everyone!
>
> My name is Wendy Reid, I’m the Accessibility and Publishing
> Standards lead at Rakuten Kobo, a lifelong book nerd, and the chair of
> the EPUB3 WG and Audiobooks WG.
>
> My main interests are accessibility, pushing books to be better, and
> working together to make things better.
>
> Nice to meet so many of you!
>
> Cheers,
>
> Wendy
>
> From: Liam R. E. Quin <liam@fromoldbooks.org<mailto:liam@fromoldbooks.org>>
> Date: Tuesday, March 15, 2022 at 2:28 PM
> To: W3C EPUB 3 Community Group <public-epub3@w3.org<mailto:public-epub3@w3.org>>
> Subject: Re: Let's introduce ourselves
>
> [EXTERNAL] This message comes from an external organization.
>
> Hello!
>
> I've mostly been lurking here since i left W3C (after 17 years) in
> 2018, where i had led a lot of the XML work.
>
> These days i mostly work for Paligo AB in Sweden, and do XSLT training
> and XSLT/XML/XQuery consulting via Delightful Computing.
>
> Why lurk? The state of epub and ebooks is very disappointing to me,
> and
> although a lot of that is down to readers and devices, a lot also is
> from missed opportunities, ranging from cross-book linking and domain-
> specific searching through to typography & accessibility. A W3C
> Working
> Group isn't usually a good place for leaps in forward design, since
> you
> can't make a standard around experiments, but where else to watch &
> sometimes gently prod people behind the scenes?
>
> --
> Liam Quin, https://www.delightfulcomputing.com/
> Available for XML/Document/Information Architecture/XSLT/
> XSL/XQuery/Web/Text Processing/A11Y training, work & consulting.
> Barefoot Web-slave, antique illustrations:
> http://www.fromoldbooks.org [1]
>
> Links:
> ------
> [1] http://www.fromoldbooks.org

--
Bill Kasdorf
Principal, Kasdorf & Associates, LLC
Founding Partner, Publishing Technology Partners
W3C Global Publishing Evangelist
bill.kasdorf@w3.org<mailto:bill.kasdorf@w3.org>