Re: Chairing Announcement + A Request

I want to thank Dave for all your hard work, I know it’s a lot to be a chair. Although I am sad to see you step down, I understand and am grateful for your stewardship over the past few years.


Thanks
Charles
EOM

From: Reid, Wendy <wendy.reid@rakuten.com>
Date: Thursday, October 5, 2023 at 8:17 AM
To: public-pm-wg@w3.org <public-pm-wg@w3.org>
Subject: Chairing Announcement + A Request
Hi everyone,

I hope you are all doing well.

I wanted to share this news first before it went out to the W3C mailing lists. Dave Cramer has decided to step down as one of the co-chairs of this working group due to work obligations. Shinya, Tzviya, and myself will be staying on as your co-chairs.

Dave has been essential to the success of EPUB over the years, and it must be said that without him, we wouldn’t be where we are today. He was integral to publishing EPUB 3.2 and leading the group that brought EPUB to W3C, the EPUB CG. He then kindly joined us to publish EPUB 3.3, and we could not have done it without him. Please join me in thanking him for his service to us over the years as both Editor and Chair.

Just as a reminder, we have cancelled tomorrow’s meeting as we’re still working on getting more information on topics like Webtoons for discussion.

Lastly, one small operational request. We need a formal resolution on the books for publishing with Echidna. We use this system to make publishing the documents automatically much easier, so please reply to this email with a +1, 0, or -1 for this proposal:

Proposed: PMWG will use the echidna publishing system for all documents whenever it is appropriate per the W3C Process.

Cheers,
Wendy