Re: Browser outreach?

Feel free to go ahead without me!  :-)

Best,
   Garth

On Sat, Mar 25, 2017 at 1:16 AM, Ivan Herman <ivan@w3.org> wrote:

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> On 25 Mar 2017, at 09:14, Ivan Herman <ivan@w3.org> wrote:
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> On 25 Mar 2017, at 02:06, Baker, Mike (Dublin) <mike.baker@hmhco.com>
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> Hi Bill
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> I don’t mind pushing out until you get back. If no one has any objections
> to that I would like to have you Bill in the original meeting also.
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> Well… with all my love to Bill (and I think Bill will agree with what I am
> about to say) we have a time pressure. In the case Microsoft comes with
> some substantial comments, we have to deal with those and if we are not
> careful that can jeopardize our timing. To make things worse, I will also
> be out for a week (I will be in Australia) and, though I can of course work
> in an async manner, there is no way I can be on a call either.
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> So… I believe we should try to have this call the coming week (before
> Friday, because I will already be on my way down under on Friday) if this
> is at all possible. I would also love to have Garth on the call, but that
> may not work out due to the time differences.
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> Oops, that would not work either, Garth is on vacations this coming week!
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> Ivan
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> In fact, the main goal of the call would really be to draw attention on
> what is happening, and convince them that a participation in the process
> would be great. I do not expect them to give us substantial comments on the
> charter on that call; the real goal is to start the process which can then
> process asynchronously.
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> Thanks!
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> Ivan
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> Mike
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> *From: *Bill McCoy <bmccoy@w3.org>
> *Organization: *W3C
> *Date: *Friday 24 March 2017 at 17:51
> *To: *'Ivan Herman' <ivan@w3.org>, "Baker, Mike (Dublin)" <
> mike.baker@hmhco.com>
> *Cc: *'Garth Conboy' <garth@google.com>, 'W3C Publishing Steering
> Committee' <public-publishing-sc@w3.org>
> *Subject: *RE: Browser outreach?
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> *This message originated from outside your organization*
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> Hi Mike and all,
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> I think it would be good to proceed to have a call with Microsoft;
> however, I’m on vacation the next 2 weeks with limited access so I will
> defer to you all to work with Ivan about it. I would hope to have a chance
> to follow up in person in Redmond at some point later on since I’m local.
> Also there are issues (use of Readium software by Microsoft, getting EPUB 3
> to be indexed by Bing search engine, EPUB 3 export as a MS Word feature)
> that may not be in scope for the initial discussion about their current
> work and introducing them and hopefully getting them to commit to being
> involved in the new WG work kicking off for Web Publications.
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> If you want to include EDRLab CTO Laurent Le Meur that could be useful,
> he’s based in Paris.
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> I’ll stay tuned to hear what happens and follow up as appropriate. I’m
> back in the office starting April 11 with pretty open calendar the next 2
> weeks after that so feel free to sign me up for anything.
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> --Bill
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> *From:* Ivan Herman [mailto:ivan@w3.org <ivan@w3.org>]
> *Sent:* Tuesday, March 21, 2017 10:56 AM
> *To:* Baker, Mike (Dublin) <mike.baker@hmhco.com>
> *Cc:* Garth Conboy <garth@google.com>; Bill McCoy <bmccoy@w3.org>; W3C
> Publishing Steering Committee <public-publishing-sc@w3.org>
> *Subject:* Re: Browser outreach?
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> Thanks Mike. I would leave it to Bill on how to proceed.
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> I am on Paris time. However, I would prefer to avoid evening calls, ie, I
> would not like to go beyond 8pm my time, and I really would prefer
> earlier...
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> I don't know whether we will have an IG call. If not, that slot might be
> o.k.
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> Ivan
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> (Written on mobile, sorry for brevity and misspellings...)
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> On 21 Mar 2017, at 18:07, Baker, Mike (Dublin) <mike.baker@hmhco.com>
> wrote:
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> Microsoft are willing to have a call, I was going to setup a call for
> early next week if that suits for a demo and introductions. Should I go
> ahead and set something up? They are based on Redmond and Paris so there
> are limited timeslots that work.
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> Mike
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> *From: *Garth Conboy <garth@google.com>
> *Date: *Tuesday 21 March 2017 at 17:04
> *To: *"Baker, Mike (Dublin)" <mike.baker@hmhco.com>
> *Cc: *Bill McCoy <bmccoy@w3.org>, Ivan Herman <ivan@w3.org>, W3C
> Publishing Steering Committee <public-publishing-sc@w3.org>
> *Subject: *Re: Browser outreach?
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> *This message originated from outside your organization*
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> Hi Folks,
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> I've done two internal reach-outs -- one just sent now with a particular
> call-out to the Chrome standards team.
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> Best,
>    Garth
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> On Tue, Mar 21, 2017 at 9:37 AM, Baker, Mike (Dublin) <
> mike.baker@hmhco.com> wrote:
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> I have the contacts from the Microsoft Paris team, but don’t want to step
> on toes, so if you BillM want you or Laurent to be the point of contact I
> am ok with either. I am just awaiting confirmation before sharing the
> details. They have a great team working on it.
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> Mike
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> *From: *Bill McCoy <bmccoy@w3.org>
> *Organization: *W3C
> *Date: *Tuesday 21 March 2017 at 16:02
> *To: *'Ivan Herman' <ivan@w3.org>, 'W3C Publishing Steering Committee' <
> public-publishing-sc@w3.org>
> *Subject: *RE: Browser outreach?
> *Resent-From: *<public-publishing-sc@w3.org>
> *Resent-Date: *Tuesday 21 March 2017 at 16:04
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> *This message originated from outside your organization*
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> I have followed up further with Microsoft and it turns out the EPUB dev
> and strategy team for Edge is in Paris France (who knew !?) anyway the
> leadership of that group will come to Redmond in June and I expect to meet
> with them then, meanwhile I am working to get them connected to Laurent Le
> Meur in EDRLab Paris. Ivan I will loop you into this as well.
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> --Bill
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> *From:* Ivan Herman [mailto:ivan@w3.org]
> *Sent:* Tuesday, March 21, 2017 2:06 AM
> *To:* W3C Publishing Steering Committee <public-publishing-sc@w3.org>
> *Subject:* Browser outreach?
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> Guys,
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> the only (but major) missing bit on the WG charter is to reach out to
> browser people to see if they have significant input. We must have that
> before we send the charter officially to W3M.
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> AFAIK, we said that BillM would outreach to Microsoft/Edge (with some
> additional addresses coming from Mike Baker), that BillM may also have the
> right contacts at Mozilla (although, based on the issue raised by David
> Baron & Tantek, it seems that they have already looked at the charter, so
> it may not be that crucial), and that Garth would contact the Chrome team.
> I do not remember whether we have any direct access to the Safari team
> @Apple.
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> Just bugging you, that is all…
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> Ivan
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> Home: http://www.w3.org/People/Ivan/
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