- From: Karen Myers <karen@w3.org>
- Date: Thu, 16 Jan 2020 13:56:15 -0500
- To: kerscher@montana.com
- Cc: Richard Orme <rorme@daisy.org>, "PBG Steering Committee (Public)" <public-publishing-sc@w3.org>
George, Great work! Congrats on the Apple sponsorship for EPUBCheck. Karen > On 16 Jan 2020, at 12:47, <kerscher@montana.com> <kerscher@montana.com> wrote: > > 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://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 >> Senior Advisor, Global Literacy, Benetech http://www.benetech.org >> President, International Digital Publishing Forum (IDPF) >> http://www.idpf.org Member of the National Museum and Library Services >> Board (IMLS) http://www.imls.gov Chair Steering Council Web >> Accessibility Initiative (WAI), a division of the W3C >> http://www.w3c.org/wai >> Phone: +1 406/549-4687 >> Cell:+1 406/544-2466 >> Email: kerscher@montana.com > > David Singer > Manager, Software Standards, Apple Inc. > > > >
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