FW: EPUBcheck at IBM and how is it going?

Dear Steering Committee,

 

I have not yet heard back from Mary  Jo's manager, Si McAleer. I was
wondering if perhaps we should contact IBM's AC rep to see if she/he would
help our cause? Does anybody know the IBM AC rep? I do not have an email for
Si McAleer either.

 

It is very difficult getting to the right person in a company.

Best

George

 

From: Mary Jo Mueller <maryjom@us.ibm.com> 
Sent: Friday, January 24, 2020 12:57 PM
To: kerscher@montana.com
Cc: Rich Schwerdtfeger <richschwer@gmail.com>
Subject: RE: EPUBcheck at IBM and how is it going?

 

Hi George,

I'm passing this along to my manager, Si McAleer who handles such requests.

Best regards,

Mary Jo
_____________________________________________
Mary Jo Mueller
Accessibility Standards Program Manager
IBM Accessibility Research, Austin, TX
Phone: 512-286-9698 | Tie-line: 363-9698






"If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and
become more, you are a leader." ~John Quincy Adams

Rich Schwerdtfeger ---01/24/2020 03:56:57 AM---Hi George, Great to hear from
you. All is well. We have dove in Maui and it will be a bit cool this

From: Rich Schwerdtfeger <richschwer@gmail.com <mailto:richschwer@gmail.com>
>
To: kerscher@montana.com <mailto:kerscher@montana.com> 
Cc: Mary Jo Mueller <maryjom@us.ibm.com <mailto:maryjom@us.ibm.com> >
Date: 01/24/2020 03:56 AM
Subject: [EXTERNAL] Re: EPUBcheck at IBM and how is it going?

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Hi George,

Great to hear from you. All is well. We have dove in Maui and it will be a
bit cool this time of year. :-)

I led the adoption of ePub as a document format used by IBM so I am glad to
see W3C running an open source checker project. 

I have been retired from IBM now for 3 years and am not familiar with their
management infrastructure but the person who may have the best shot at
helping you is Mary Jo Mueller. I put her on cc.

All the best,
Rich



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On Jan 23, 2020, at 11:12 PM, kerscher@montana.com
<mailto:kerscher@montana.com>  wrote:


Hello Rich,

Hope all is going well; I just spent 12 days in Maui!!! No diving, but still
interested in that; I suspect my wife might have something to say about
that.


Sorry to bother you about IBM stuff, but we at the W3C are fund raising for
support for the continued development of EPUBCheck. We have raised over 
$100k , and we have not heard from IBM. I sent the request to Phil Jenkins,
and he responded once , but nothing since. I did ping him several more
times.

The bottom line is that if IBM would donate something/anything to the
effort. I have been promoting the use of EPUB by business and having IBM do
something would be great. Apple, Google VitalSource, and many others have
contributed a lot.

If you could point me to anybody, or make an introduction, that would be
great. Here is the essence of what I sent to Phil:

Publishing at the W3C is running an open source project to develop and
maintain EPUBCheck. I believe IBM requires their EPUB files to pass
EPUBCheck before they are broadly distributed. 

IBM was one of the companies who adopted EPUB 3 as their format for
distribution of publications, and we have applauded that decision!

Because IBM depends on this software, it would be wonderful if IBM donated
to this open source activity that the whole publishing ecosystem is using. I
understand that it might be difficult to make donations, so we could provide
an invoice, if that would help. We would need the name, email, and the
amount IBM wanted to be invoiced for.

See the details at:

 <https://www.w3.org/publishing/epubcheck_fundraising>
https://www.w3.org/publishing/epubcheck_fundraising

Please let me know if I can answer any questions.

Best
George
George Kerscher Ph.D.
-In our Information Age, access to information is a fundamental human right.
Chief Innovations Officer, DAISY Consortium
 <http://www.daisy.org> http://www.daisy.org
Senior Advisor, Global Literacy, Benetech
 <http://www.benetech.org> http://www.benetech.org
President, International Digital Publishing Forum (IDPF) 
 <http://www.idpf.org> http://www.idpf.org
Member of the National Museum and Library Services Board (IMLS)
 <http://www.imls.gov> http://www.imls.gov
Chair Steering Council Web Accessibility Initiative (WAI), a division of the
W3C 
 <http://www.w3c.org/wai> http://www.w3c.org/wai 
Phone: +1 406/549-4687
Cell:+1 406/544-2466 
Email:  <mailto:kerscher@montana.com> kerscher@montana.com