(Fwd) Dave Cramer steps down as co-chair of the Publishing Maintenance Working Group

Dear Members of the Publishing Maintenance Working Group,

For your information:

> Begin forwarded message:
> 
> From: Coralie Mercier <coralie@w3.org>
> Subject: Dave Cramer steps down as co-chair of the Publishing Maintenance Working Group
> Date: 5 October 2023 at 17:07:28 CEST
> To: W3C Members <w3c-ac-members@w3.org>
> Message-Id: <E3118F88-2489-484C-B63A-DBCA5F18223F@w3.org>
> 
> Dear Advisory Committee Representative,
> [This announcement will be forwarded to Chairs, and the concerned Working Group’s mailing list]
> 
> This is to inform you that Dave Cramer (W3C Invited Expert) has stepped down as co-Chair of the Publishing Maintenance Working Group [1] in order to focus on other responsibilities.
> 
> There are no plans to nominate a replacement for Dave; the Working Group has three co-Chairs (Tzviya Siegman, Wiley; Wendy Reid, Rakuten Group, Inc.; Shinya Takami, Kadokawa Corporation) which does not necessitate a fourth co-Chair.
> 
> Dave played a seminal role in the development of the W3C Publishing activities [2] in general and EPUB 3 in particular. 
> He was co-chair of the EPUB Community Group [3], which published EPUB 3.2 [4], a version of the EPUB 3 series that restored compatibility with earlier versions and aligned with the realities of the publishing industry. Later, Dave became co-chair of the EPUB 3 Working Group [5], which published EPUB 3.3 [6], the first version of EPUB that went through the formal W3C Process to become a W3C Recommendation.
> Dave was not only co-chair, but also co-editor for several of these documents, and also participated in other groups (such as the CSS Working Group) representing the publishing industry. 
> 
> We would like to express our gratitude to Dave for his contributions and dedication to Publishing@W3C over the years.
> 
> This announcement follows section 3.4.1 of the W3C Process Document:
>  https://www.w3.org/2023/Process-20230612/#ReqsAllGroups
> 
> Coralie Mercier, Head of W3C Marketing & Communications
> 
> [1] https://www.w3.org/groups/wg/pm/
> [2] https://www.w3.org/ecosystems/publishing/
> [3] https://www.w3.org/publishing/groups/epub3-cg/
> [4] https://www.w3.org/publishing/epub32/epub-spec.html
> [5] https://www.w3.org/groups/wg/epub/
> [6] https://www.w3.org/press-releases/2023/epub33-rec/

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Coralie Mercier  -  Head of W3C Marketing & Communications 
mailto:coralie@w3.org - https://www.w3.org/People/Coralie/