Re: EPUB 3 Working Group Charter Approved; Call for Participation

Hi all,

Congrats!

FYI, I am scheduled to have a series of meetings individually with all the W3C members in the Japanese publishing industry next week starting with Kodansha, after my vacation ending Monday. 

So far, I heard from Kodansha, Shueisha, EBPAJ, Digital Commic Association, Voyager, BPS, not to mention Kadokawa and Media Do would register to take part in EPUB WG. I will discuss with all of them next week to ”double-check” their commitments to the WG.

I will keep you all informed on any progress.

Best,

Daihei

Sent from my iPhone

> On Aug 14, 2020, at 02:55, Ivan Herman <ivan@w3.org> wrote:
> 
> The EPUB 3 WG is now operational!
> 
> We should probably notify the Publishing WG and possibly the BG about this, to get people to join. The plan is to hold the first telco in about 3 weeks.
> 
> Youpee:-)
> 
> Ivan
> 
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>> From: xueyuan <xueyuan@w3.org>
>> Subject: EPUB 3 Working Group Charter Approved; Call for Participation
>> Date: 14 August 2020 at 09:30:55 GMT+2
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>> Dear Advisory Committee Representative,
>> Chair,
>> 
>> The Director is pleased to announce the approval of the EPUB 3 Working Group charter:
>>    https://www.w3.org/2020/08/epub-wg-charter.html
>> 
>> This group is chartered until 28 February 2023.
>> 
>> The mission of the EPUB 3 Working Group is to maintain and develop the EPUB 3 family of specifications, to represent the EPUB community in the W3C, and to support EPUB 3 content creators and consumers by further advancing, refining, and clarifying the current EPUB 3 specification. The Working Group will also work closely with the Publishing Community Group to support the maintenance of validation tools and the creation of documentation.
>> 
>> Please use this form to join the group; the form will also instruct you how to nominate participants:
>>    https://www.w3.org/2004/01/pp-impl/125377/join
>> 
>> The Working Group chairs are Dave Cramer (Hachette Livre), Wendy Reid (Rakuten Kobo), and Shinya Takami 高見真也 (Kadokawa/Bookwalker). The Team Contact is Ivan Herman for a total of 0.20 FTE.
>> 
>> More information on the EPUB 3 Working Group can be found on its homepage:
>>    https://www.w3.org/publishing/groups/epub-wg/
>> 
>> The group plans to have its first (virtual) face-to-face meeting during the W3C's annual Technical Plenary week, October 2020.
>> 
>> ------
>> Results of Call for Review
>> ------
>> In response to the 19 June 2020 Call for Review:
>> https://lists.w3.org/Archives/Member/w3c-ac-members/2020AprJun/0060.html
>> 
>> 43 members supported the charter as is, 2 members suggested changes but without a formal objection, and 1 member abstained.
>> https://www.w3.org/2002/09/wbs/33280/epub3wg/results
>> 
>> The two suggested changes were identical and led to some minor changes on the proposed charter (reinforcing the need to provide tests for any proposed changes on the EPUB 3 documents, see [1] for the details). No substantial change on the charter was introduced.
>> 
>> This announcement follows section 7.1.2 of the W3C Process Document:
>>    https://www.w3.org/2019/Process-20190301/#ACReviewAfter
>> 
>> and the Call for Participation follows section 5.2.4 of the W3C Process Document:
>>    https://www.w3.org/2019/Process-20190301/#cfp
>> 
>> Thank you,
>> 
>> For Tim Berners-Lee, W3C Director, and
>> Ivan Herman, W3C Digital Publishing Activity Technical Lead and Team Contact,
>> Xueyuan Jia, W3C Marketing & Communications
>> 
>> [1] https://github.com/w3c/epub-3-wg-charter/pull/60
>> 
>> 
>> 
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