Re: EPUBCheck Fundraising Hosting

Dear Laurent,

Thank you for your immediate answer.

There are indeed 2 parts : website and finance.
For the first one, easy solutions can be seen.
For the second, it is more complex and the SC has to think about those issues.

The Steering Committee will examine these proposals and issues on its next call Friday, and will come back to you later.

Have a good break !
Luc


De : Laurent Le Meur <laurent.lemeur@edrlab.org<mailto:laurent.lemeur@edrlab.org>>
Date : mercredi 22 août 2018 à 19:34
À : AUDRAIN LUC AUDRAIN LUC <laudrain@hachette-livre.fr<mailto:laudrain@hachette-livre.fr>>
Cc : "public-publishing-sc@w3.org<mailto:public-publishing-sc@w3.org>" <public-publishing-sc@w3.org<mailto:public-publishing-sc@w3.org>>
Objet : Re: EPUBCheck Fundraising Hosting

Dear Luc,

Thank you for the offer. I've forwarded it to the EDRLab board for urgent discussion. My only issue is that I'll start summer vacations tomorrow and be back on September 3rd. So I won't be able to participate to the call on Friday, but may be able to send some info before.

Re. which kind of website, I'm thinking about a WordPress based web site. Simple and cheap to setup, good templates everywhere, easy to maintain. This can have a specific domain name, a partner domain name (e.g. w3.org<http://w3.org>) if it's easy for the partner tech team to set it up, or the EDRLab domain name is the SC prefers. But if the SC wants it to be "inside" an existing platform (like an existing Drupal for example, or github.io<http://github.io> or I don't know what) better to say it now because it may be a show stopper depending the difficulty).

Re. how donations may be done, an online payment system like Stripe can handle Visa, Mastercard, Amex, and in Europe SEPA transfers (there is a fee for each payment). But sponsors may want to pay via wire transfers ...

One issue the SC has to discuss asap is who will be the owner of the bank account and who will send the invoices.
It could be EDRLab (with the correct contract between EDRLab and ... who?), in which case EDRLab could handle invoices and corresponding international wire transfers. But it would mean that these money transfers (back and forth) are included in the EDRLab balance sheet. EDRLab would have to handle VAT payments for French donators, and store VAT numbers of all European donators. And if the net result at the end of a year is positive, there would be French taxes (EDRLab is not freed of taxes). It's true that this is a burden.
Do you want to discuss an alternative solution? Which company in the SC would be ready to open a bank account, send invoices, get money from all over the world, add this to its balance sheet and pay the corresponding taxes (in its country)?

Cordialement,

Laurent Le Meur
EDRLab

Le 22 août 2018 à 14:45, AUDRAIN LUC <LAUDRAIN@hachette-livre.fr<mailto:LAUDRAIN@hachette-livre.fr>> a écrit :

Dear Laurent,

As you may know, the Publishing Business Group has launched recently an RFP to develop the next version of epubcheck, with at least a short term goal of validating EPUB3.2.

This development has to be funded and we plan to start in parallel a fundraising website to collect funds and pay the developers.

On behalf of the Publishing Business Group Steering Committee(here cced), I’d like to ask you if EDRLab could do that and with which conditions?

The foreseen global activity can be summarized as :

  *   Build a web site with hosting, design and wording to be validated by SC
  *   Payment on line, to a specific banking account
  *   Reporting on payments, online access to SC only
  *   Follow schedule of deliverables from the epubcheck development planning
  *   Pay the developer if SC is ok

What do you think ?

Could you participate at the next PBG-SC meeting this Friday afternoon (17h Paris time)?

Best regards,
Luc

Luc Audrain
Head of Digitalization
Hachette Livre
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