RE: EPUBCheck Fundraising Hosting

The W3C could still help us with the website.

I agree that we need an invoicing system and that we need methods to deal with currency exchange, taxes etc. We are also working on a tight schedule, and we need to come up with some quick solutions. I am open to all suggestions!

Tzviya Siegman
Information Standards Lead
Wiley
201-748-6884
tsiegman@wiley.com<mailto:tsiegman@wiley.com>

From: George Kerscher [mailto:kerscher@montana.com]
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Subject: RE: EPUBCheck Fundraising Hosting

Hi,

I saw that a website was also one of the deliverables. That is fairly open ended. I wonder if the website would actually be a part of something else and not a new whole website.

Best
George


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Subject: Re: EPUBCheck Fundraising Hosting

I’m a little concerned about this and whether we have all the requirements we might need.

Are we expecting this to all be via creditcard payments? Do we need them to be able to accept wire transfers?

For my organization, our AP group expects that there are invoices for things we commit to and that we pay with checks and have somewhere to mail them.  And that vendors have Tax ID numbers and all that kind of stuff. They highly discourage the use of creditcards for payments like this and even if somehow that gets approved, they still need invoice backups for tax purposes. And then I would suppose there are some tax forms that have to be done for the payment of developers and making sure they can report income.

Are we expecting that EDRLab will take on all of that too?

I don’t mean to be a stick in the mud, I just want to make sure we are covering everything we need to. (and tax fraud is on my mind today what with everything ☺)




From: AUDRAIN LUC <LAUDRAIN@hachette-livre.fr<mailto:LAUDRAIN@hachette-livre.fr>>
Date: Wednesday, August 22, 2018 at 8:27 AM
To: "Siegman, Tzviya" <tsiegman@wiley.com<mailto:tsiegman@wiley.com>>, Rachel Comerford <rachel.comerford@macmillan.com<mailto:rachel.comerford@macmillan.com>>, "PBG Steering Committee (Public)" <public-publishing-sc@w3.org<mailto:public-publishing-sc@w3.org>>
Subject: Re: EPUBCheck Fundraising Hosting
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Resent-Date: Wednesday, August 22, 2018 at 8:27 AM

Hi Tzviya and all,

I haven’t seen objections for contacting EDRLab, even some encouragements.
So I will do that now on behalf of the SC.

Let me summarize here what could be the global scope of this « fundraising hosting » :

  *   Build a web site with hosting, design and wording to be validated by SC
  *   Payment on line, to a specific banking account (do we have any rec or issues here?)
  *   Reporting on payments, online access to SC only
  *   Follow schedule of deliverables from the epubcheck development planning
  *   Pay the developer if SC is ok
Is something missing?
We could discuss details with EDRLab if they are willing to do it. And costs…

I will propose they participate to Friday call.

Best,
Luc


De : "Siegman, Tzviya" <tsiegman@wiley.com<mailto:tsiegman@wiley.com>>
Date : mardi 21 août 2018 à 14:42
À : AUDRAIN LUC AUDRAIN LUC <laudrain@hachette-livre.fr<mailto:laudrain@hachette-livre.fr>>, Rachel Comerford <rachel.comerford@macmillan.com<mailto:rachel.comerford@macmillan.com>>, "PBG Steering Committee (Public)" <public-publishing-sc@w3.org<mailto:public-publishing-sc@w3.org>>
Objet : RE: EPUBCheck Fundraising Hosting

Hi Luc,

W3C will still be able to help us with the Website, but 35% (!!!) would go to MIT. This also affects the way in which we write an SOW and MSA with the team to whom we reward the proposal.

If everyone agrees to contact EDRLab, then I recommend contacting them and inviting them to Friday’s call.

We are very short on time, so shall we assume that if we don’t hear any comments by the end of the day on Tuesday 21 August that Luc should contact EDRLab on Wednesday?

Thank you,
Tzviya

Tzviya Siegman
Information Standards Lead
Wiley
201-748-6884
tsiegman@wiley.com<mailto:tsiegman@wiley.com>

From: AUDRAIN LUC [mailto:LAUDRAIN@hachette-livre.fr]
Sent: Tuesday, August 21, 2018 5:16 AM
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Subject: Re: EPUBCheck Fundraising Hosting

Hi,

I suppose some kind of tool needs to be setup for that fundraising, or could we go through a public crowdfunding tool?

This setup may have a cost, even for EDRLab.
Do we know the value of  the  « portion of what is donated will go to MIT »?

I personally would be OK to let EDRLab host the funding, but it has to be checked with them if this is possible.
I can ask Laurent Le Meur on behalf to he SC.

Luc

De : Rachel Comerford <rachel.comerford@macmillan.com<mailto:rachel.comerford@macmillan.com>>
Date : lundi 20 août 2018 à 23:21
À : "PBG Steering Committee (Public)" <public-publishing-sc@w3.org<mailto:public-publishing-sc@w3.org>>
Objet : EPUBCheck Fundraising Hosting
Renvoyer - De : <public-publishing-sc@w3.org<mailto:public-publishing-sc@w3.org>>
Renvoyer - Date : lundi 20 août 2018 à 23:22

Hello Steering Committee,

Thank you to those who have weighed in on the recommendation from the review committee. I look forward to hearing back from the rest of you.

Tzviya and I met with Wendy about hosting the fundraising site through the W3C/MIT. We learned that if we take that route, a portion of what is donated will go to MIT. Since those funds are precious, we are looking at backup plans for hosting fundraising.

At one point it was proposed that EDRLab might be able to host the fundraising effort. How does the steering committee feel about pursuing this option and for those of you involved in EDRLab, is this a possibility?

Given our time constraints on moving this project forward, it is in our best interest to discuss this over email rather than wait for the next meeting.

Looking forward to discussing,
Rachel

Rachel Comerford | Senior Director of Content Standards and Accessibility | T 212.576.9433

Macmillan Learning