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

Daihei,

that is great news.

FYI the current plan is to alternate the calls between, say, Europe friendly and East Asia friendly times although, in contrast to the BG, not with repeated agendas. That, plus an emphasis on async work via github, should help the participation of East Asian experts.

Ivan

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Ivan Herman

(Written on my iPad. Excuses for brevity and misspellings...)

> On 15 Aug 2020, at 03:18, 塩濵大平 <shiohama@mediado.jp> wrote:
> 
> 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
>> 
>>> Begin forwarded message:
>>> 
>>> 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
>>> To: w3c-ac-forum@w3.org
>>> Cc: chairs@w3.org
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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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