Re: New Member: The Washington Post

Do we know what the interest from WaPo is regarding Publishing? I have no knowledge really of newspaper publishing but it strikes me that in the digital realm, they really do seem to have it figured out. Obviously I don’t know their use cases but I don’t really think PM is of interest to them. Perhaps other projects we’re considering would be, but we don’t know.

Would it perhaps be more feasible for Karen to arrange a meeting with a few of us from PWG/PBG to meet with the WaPo reps and understand what they are interested in, instead of worrying about arranging international travel? A big meeting like IPTC, they may not have the time to chat with us.

Bill, at this point there’s no argument for rechartering PWG after PM and Audiobooks goes out, but if there’s anything we need to know before the meeting next week, please share.

-Wendy

From: Bill Kasdorf <kasdorf.bill@gmail.com>
Date: Tuesday, February 18, 2020 at 11:51 AM
To: Laurent Le Meur <laurent.lemeur@edrlab.org>
Cc: Jeff Jaffe <jeff@w3.org>, Karen Myers <karen@w3.org>, W3C Publishing Steering Committee <public-publishing-sc@w3.org>
Subject: Re: New Member: The Washington Post
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Resent-Date: Tuesday, February 18, 2020 at 11:51 AM

I think you meant this is NOT a matter of urgency, since you suggested just doing this at their Fall meeting in NYC.

My concern is the need to recharter the Publishing WG. That's the urgency I feel. If we could get some interest in WP from this sector, who are not much interested in EPUB, that could be a deciding factor in the future of WP. And this group has a bunch of heavy hitters like the Associated Press, Agence France-Presse, the BBC, Bloomberg, the New York Times (host of the fall meeting), Thomson-Reuters, and many more. My hope would be that we could stimulate interest at the IPTC Spring Meeting so that (a) we could have support for some implementations and (b) so that there could be some concrete progress from at least one or two of those players in time for their Fall meeting (and even earlier, in support of WP for non-ebook-content from an important sector).

I certainly understand your need for support for travel. I would go to Tallinn if I could but I can't justify the personal expense. In any case. Laurent, you're a much better person to make this case with this group than I am. Hope this can work out. If you can't do it, maybe Ivan can go.

On Tue, Feb 18, 2020 at 7:22 AM Laurent Le Meur <laurent.lemeur@edrlab.org<mailto:laurent.lemeur@edrlab.org>> wrote:
Note: I'll discuss with Brendan the interest of going in Estonia for presenting our work to the IPTC Spring meeting. This is also a matter of urgency (shouldn't it wait until their Fall meeting in NY?) and budget for EDRLab (or is there a sponsor somewhere for that travel?) .

Laurent


Le 13 févr. 2020 à 17:31, Bill Kasdorf <kasdorf.bill@gmail.com<mailto:kasdorf.bill@gmail.com>> a écrit :

Sounds good. And not to discourage somebody (Laurent being the likely ideal candidate) to attend the Spring IPTC meeting in Estonia, I just got news today that the Fall meeting will be hosted by the New York Times, October 12-14. So a whole bunch of these folks will be within easy reach then.

An ideal scenario would be for Laurent to speak at the Spring meeting and get the ball rolling so that concrete results could be presented at the Fall meeting. Since I went independent I can't justify the expense to go in person to all the IPTC meetings anymore, but I will definitely be attending the fall meeting in New York.

--Bill

P.S. Another tidbit--there will be a big announcement next week about IPTC's partnership with Google on image metadata. . . .

On Thu, Feb 13, 2020 at 12:09 AM Jeff Jaffe <jeff@w3.org<mailto:jeff@w3.org>> wrote:

Congratulations, Karen, and thanks Bill.

Bill, I agree that given the breadth of topics of interest to the publishing industry, having members like the Washington Post and Thomson-Reuters gives us a platform to explore a broader set of topics.  I doubt that there is time to discuss at the Summit meeting on the 24th, but maybe some of us can caucus about the possibilities during a break.

Jeff
On 2/12/2020 5:31 PM, Bill Kasdorf wrote:
That's fantastic news! I recently made a renewed pitch to IPTC, the news technology organization, when I saw a Slack post that Brendan Quinn, the IPTC Managing Director, put out to their membership about LPF and pub-manifest, linking to those specs and citing the Publishing WG and Laurent specifically. (Laurent used to be an IPTC member and he knows them well.) I pointed out that some of their members (New York Times, BBC, Agence France-Presse, Bloomberg, Thomson-Reuters, you name it--but not the Post, and they've always wanted the Post to join IPTC!) might want to get involved in the W3C since those things may be really relevant to them. I will post about the Post! (I'm still a member of IPTC, though not as active as I used to be.)--Bill

On Wed, Feb 12, 2020 at 5:02 PM Karen Myers <karen@w3.org<mailto:karen@w3.org>> wrote:
Hi All,

A quick note to let you know that The Washington Post has joined W3C as new members and one of their interests is Publishing. I will be scheduling their new member/new AC Rep on-boarding call soon but wanted to let all of you know.

Karen


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