Re: EPUBCheck needs support from Apple

Absolutely!

Ivan

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Ivan Herman
World Wide Web Consortium
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On 16 Jan 2020, 18:56 +0100, AUDRAIN LUC <LAUDRAIN@hachette-livre.fr>, wrote:
> +10000000
> Luc
>
> 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
> >
> > Please let me know if I can answer any questions.
> >
> > Best
> > George
> >
> > George Kerscher Ph.D.
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> David Singer
> Manager, Software Standards, Apple Inc.
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