Re: EPUBCheck needs support from Apple

Indeed -- awesome George!

Best,
   Garth


On Fri, Jan 17, 2020 at 2:18 PM Bill Kasdorf <kasdorf.bill@gmail.com> wrote:

> 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)
>> >> http://www.idpf.org Member of the National Museum and Library
>> Services
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>> >> Accessibility Initiative (WAI), a division of the W3C
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>> >> Email: kerscher@montana.com
>> >
>> > David Singer
>> > Manager, Software Standards, Apple Inc.
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> >
>>
>>
>>
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