RE: about the Nov events

I fully agree with Tzviya that we don't want people working on publishing at
W3C to be in a silo.

But with respect to the Publishing@W3C Summit (Nov 9 & AM of Nov 10), the
idea is that this would NOT be expected to draw its attendees primarily from
the typical W3C TPAC audience, but more like for example the last two EPUB
Summits or historical IDPF conferences. Even W3C members might send
different people to the Publishing@W3C Summit than they send to other TPAC
activities. This is a bit different than the "Publishing Community Meeting"
in Lisbon which was set up as a chance for IDPF members to engage in W3C and
visa-versa.  But, in line with the consensus at the PBG SC meeting in
London, we are NOT aiming for C-level executives (who it was agreed are
unlikely to come to a W3C event in SF).

So in some sense some, maybe most, attendees at this event - certainly those
from non-members and even some from members who are not interested in the
nitty-gritty of spec development - *will* be siloed from other TPAC
activities, but that's because of the goal of the event to attract a broader
audience and because the event is mainly just opportunistically co-located
with TPAC due to the accident of having extra space at the venue. There will
be a very minimal extra cost to attend for members attending other TPAC week
events so we hopefully will get some synergies but that is not the main
goal.

Draft of "blurb" about the Publishing@W3C Summit follows, this is my input
to Karen (cc:) and I was planning to send to this group after her
editing/rewriting but she's on a business trip so it may shorten the loop if
folks made comments/suggestions now.

Thanks,

--Bill

Publishing@W3C Summit Nov 9-10, 2017 San Francisco

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registration will open May 1, 2017. The Publishing@W3C Summit is open to the
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-----Original Message-----
From: Siegman, Tzviya - Hoboken [mailto:tsiegman@wiley.com] 
Sent: Friday, April 14, 2017 5:01 AM
To: Dave Cramer <dauwhe@gmail.com>
Cc: Garth Conboy <garth@google.com>; McCloy-Kelley, Liisa
<lmccloy-kelley@penguinrandomhouse.com>; Bill McCoy <bmccoy@w3.org>; Bill
Kasdorf <bkasdorf@apexcovantage.com>; Karen Myers <karen@w3.org>; W3C
Publishing Steering Committee <public-publishing-sc@w3.org>
Subject: Re: about the Nov events

I agree with Dave. While we want to make sure that there is publishing
presence at TPAC, we also want to make sure that we don't silo ourselves off
from other groups. It was a challenge last year to jump from the EPUB
meetings to the ARIA meetings that I was supposed to be attending. Remote
participation is essential for this community, especially the CG.
Tzviya 

Sent from my iPad

> On Apr 11, 2017, at 8:34 PM, Dave Cramer <dauwhe@gmail.com> wrote:
> 
>> On Tue, Apr 11, 2017 at 12:59 PM, Garth Conboy <garth@google.com> wrote:
>> Re EPUB CG meeting... yes,, and Ivan pointed out that CG meetings are 
>> generally just a couple of hours.  So, it seems that would be 
>> potentially okay, overlapping with with Digital Publishing conference 
>> (but not the Publishing WG or DPUB BG).  That's *if* we wanna have that
much Publishing!
>> :-)
> 
> I want as many people as possible to participate in the community 
> group, and having F2F meetings is an excellent way to limit 
> participation to those with substantial amounts of time and money.
> 
> As it is, TPAC is going to be a huge problem for those of us who are 
> in other working groups (CSS, HTML, WCAG, ARIA, etc.). If there are 
> going to be future publishing summits co-located with TPAC, I'd urge 
> that they be scheduled adjacent to rather than during TPAC.
> 
> Dave
>

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