Re: EPUBCheck needs support from Apple

+10000000
Luc

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De : Siegman, Tzviya <tsiegman@wiley.com>
Envoyé : Thursday, January 16, 2020 6:51:12 PM
À : kerscher@montana.com <kerscher@montana.com>; Richard Orme <rorme@daisy.org>
Cc : PBG Steering Committee (Public) <public-publishing-sc@w3.org>
Objet : RE: EPUBCheck needs support from Apple

Yay!!!!

I think it's time for George to have a mai tai on everyone's behalf!

Tzviya Siegman
Information Standards Lead
Wiley
201-748-6884
tsiegman@wiley.com

-----Original Message-----
From: kerscher@montana.com <kerscher@montana.com>
Sent: Thursday, January 16, 2020 12:47 PM
To: Richard Orme <rorme@daisy.org>
Cc: PBG Steering Committee (Public) <public-publishing-sc@w3.org>
Subject: FW: EPUBCheck needs support from Apple

Aloha Richard,


Can you please get Apple the invoice they requested?

Best
George

-----Original Message-----
From: singer@apple.com <singer@apple.com>
Sent: Thursday, January 16, 2020 6:38 AM
To: George Kerscher <kerscher@montana.com>
Subject: Re: EPUBCheck needs support from Apple

Hi George


sorry this took so long. We’d be happy to support at the $20K level.  Can you send us an invoice?

many thanks

> On Oct 14, 2019, at 17:57 , George Kerscher <kerscher@montana.com> wrote:
>
>               Dear Sarah and David,
>
> I hope you can help to get this to the right people at Apple. Publishing at the W3C is running a project to develop and maintain EPUBCheck. I believe the Books group requires publisher’s files to pass EPUBCheck before they are ingested in to the store.
>
> Because Apple depends on this software, it would be wonderful if Apple 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 Apple wanted to be invoiced for.
>
> See the details at:
>
> https://eur01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.w3.org%2Fpublishing%2Fepubcheck_fundraising&amp;data=02%7C01%7Claudrain%40hachette-livre.fr%7C21a3735afaba410d83a208d79aacb467%7Cf881a2c50a89483181b1c7846c49594d%7C0%7C0%7C637147938868876144&amp;sdata=JyLbjx5JGg2XSVe1pOBkND2xy78%2B4JrXreAMkqV8U%2Fc%3D&amp;reserved=0
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> Please let me know if I can answer any questions.
>
> Best
> George
>
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