Re: EPUBCheck needs support from Apple

Fantastic news on so many levels! Bravo, George!

On Thu, Jan 16, 2020 at 1:57 PM Karen Myers <karen@w3.org> wrote:

> 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)
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> Services
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> >> Phone: +1 406/549-4687
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> >> Email: kerscher@montana.com
> >
> > David Singer
> > Manager, Software Standards, Apple Inc.
> >
> >
> >
> >
>
>
>

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