Re: Chairing Announcement + A Request

I agree with Laurent. The information on Echidna is sparse. I also Googled. What I gathered from my initial reading:

TR (Technical Report) documents need to be in a specific format. Echidna is an open GITHUB JavaScript-based project that is designed to pull resources from a GITHUB account and put those documents in the proper format for TR documents. Since I do not work with TR documents, I am assuming this project is being designed by folks that need this functionality. I defer to them. If it wasn’t needed, the project would not exist.

As an aspiring fixed-format author (I’m working on my first book now), I know that it would be better to create once, publish easily across multiple platforms (Amazon/Comixology, Ingram, Kobo, etc). Since Amazon/Comixology is a popular platform for comic, graphic novel delivery, can I assume that they are engaging with us to make the publishing process more cross-platform? Is there a resource that explains the history and background of this need, what currently exists, the challenges we are facing, and what is being asked for? Basically, I’d love to be brought up to speed to I can be a better WG member.


Best Regards,

Dale

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From: Laurent Le Meur <laurent@edrlab.org>
Date: Friday, October 6, 2023 at 2:47 AM
To: public-pm-wg@w3.org <public-pm-wg@w3.org>
Subject: Re: Chairing Announcement + A Request
"Dave Cramer has decided to step down as one of the co-chairs of this working group due to work obligations."

It was always interesting to discuss with you Dave, even if we had divergence on the topic of Web Publications. The restructuring of the EPUB 3 spec was a great & difficult job, bravo to the team who supported that.

"we’re still working on getting more information on topics like Webtoons for discussion"

It will be mandatory to be in touch with the Amazon team, as it seems they are triggering this discussion.

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

+1 , tooling is useful. A demo of echidna would be useful; I don't have a clue about how it works (I Googled it but the info seems scattered).

With regards

Laurent

From: Reid, Wendy <wendy.reid@rakuten.com>
Sent: Thursday, October 5, 2023 8:47 PM
To: 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