Call for Participation: Publishing Maintenance Working Group Charter Approved; Join the Publishing Maintenance WG

Dear All,

I'm relaying the announcement to the group's primary public mailing 
list, to notify the group of the approval of the initial charter for the 
Publishing Maintenance Working Group and call for participation.

Regards,
Xueyuan Jia, W3C Marketing & Communications

-------- Forwarded Message --------
Subject:  Call for Participation: Publishing Maintenance Working Group 
Charter Approved; Join the Publishing Maintenance WG; EPUB and 
Audiobooks WGs Closed
Date:  Tue, 20 Jun 2023 16:08:51 +0800
From:  xueyuan <xueyuan@w3.org>
To:  w3c-ac-members@w3.org


Dear Advisory Committee Representative,
[This announcement will be forwarded to W3C group chairs]

W3C is pleased to announce the charter of the Publishing Maintenance 
Working Group.
https://www.w3.org/2023/06/pmwg-charter.html

The group is chartered through 2025-06-30.

The mission of the Publishing Maintenance Working is to maintain the W3C 
Recommendations, as well as related Notes, in the area of Digital 
Publishing published by the Audiobooks and the EPUB Working Groups.

Please use the following form to have your organization join the group. 
The form will also instruct you how to nominate participants:
https://www.w3.org/groups/wg/pm/join

Please consider diversity when proposing people to participate in W3C 
groups. Representation from a wider group of people, especially people 
from under-represented groups, is vital for creating web standards that 
meet the needs of the wider web community.

The group plans to have its first major (face-to-face) meeting in 
September, at TPAC 2023.

The group chairs are Dave Cramer (Invited Expert), Wendy Reid (Rakuten 
Kobo), Tzviya Siegman (John Wiley & Sons), and Shinya Takami (Kadokawa). 
The Team Contact is Ivan Herman, <ivan@w3.org>, for a total of 0.10 FTE.

More information about the group can be found on the group home page:
https://www.w3.org/groups/wg/pm/

[...]
To see all changes relative to the proposed charter, follow this link:
https://services.w3.org/htmldiff?doc1=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.w3.org%2F2023%2F04%2Fpmwg-proposed-charter.html&doc2=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.w3.org%2F2023%2F06%2Fpmwg-charter.html

In parallel with the chartering of the Publishing Maintenance Working 
Group, two Working Groups will be closed, namely:

EPUB Working Group:
     homepage: https://www.w3.org/publishing/groups/epub-wg/
     charter: https://www.w3.org/2020/12/epub3-wg-charter.html

Audiobooks Working Group:
     homepage: https://www.w3.org/publishing/groups/publ-wg/
     charter: https://www.w3.org/2020/11/audiobooks-wg-charter

The EPUB WG has finished its chartered work by publishing the EPUB 
Specifications as Recommendations. The Audiobooks WG is in Maintenance 
mode for the Publication Manifest and Audiobooks Recommendations. As 
described in its charter, the Publishing Maintenance Working Group will 
take over the maintenance of the deliverables of both the EPUB and 
Audiobooks Working Groups.

This announcement follows the sections 5.7.2 and 4.6 of the W3C Process 
Document:
https://www.w3.org/2023/Process-20230612/#ACReviewAfter
https://www.w3.org/2023/Process-20230612/#GeneralTermination

and the Call for Participation follows section 4.4 of the W3C Process 
Document:
https://www.w3.org/2023/Process-20230612/#cfp

Thank you,

For Philippe le Hégaret, W3C Strategy and Project Lead,
Ralph Swick and Tzviya Siegman, Publishing Champions,
Ivan Herman, Publishing Maintenance Working Group Team Contact;
Xueyuan Jia, W3C Marketing & Communications