Re: Any thoughts about new people joininging the community group?

I concur with Mateus.  Ivan and I are working on the mechanics behind 
the combination of the two CGs and we expect to be able to make it 
transparent to everyone who is in the EPUB 3 CG.

-Ralph

On 2020-03-26 03:44 PM, Teixeira, Mateus wrote:
> Hi George,
> 
>  From a purely practical angle, I would recommend new members to join 
> the EPUB 3 CG for now. We are in the process of renaming the EPUB 3 CG 
> as the Publishing CG. Members currently registered only in the 
> Publishing CG will need to re-register in the newly renamed group, but 
> existing EPUB 3 CG members will not.
> 
> I am working on a draft of the Publishing CG charter to guide us as we 
> spin up this new organization scheme—that will, of course, be shared 
> with others in the steering committee for feedback when ready. My 
> schedule has been delayed by COVID and other things that have disrupted 
> us all, but I’m still aiming to have a daft ready by the next steering 
> committee call.
> 
> The plan, as you noted, is to organize individual domains and activities 
> as task forces within the Publishing CG. The EPUB 3 community will be 
> one of these, with the exception of REC-track work, which will be taken 
> up by the new EPUB 3 Working Group.
> 
> Best,
> 
> Mateus
> 
> *From: *"kerscher@montana.com" <kerscher@montana.com>
> *Date: *Wednesday, March 25, 2020 at 5:47 PM
> *To: *"PBG Steering Committee (Public)" <public-publishing-sc@w3.org>
> *Subject: *Any thoughts about new people joininging the community group?
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> *Resent-Date: *Wednesday, March 25, 2020 at 5:47 PM
> 
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> 
> Hello,
> 
> When people ask about joining the community group, should I suggest they 
> wait? I am thinking about the timing of merging of the groups.
> 
> Do we have a timeline?
> 
> It sounds like the CG will organize itself by creating named task forces 
> that meet on their own schedule.
> 
> I have several developers who are very  interested in creating 
> interactive features, which reminds me of the Widget sub-group from a 
> half dozen years ago. This also relates to the work at IMS Global, that 
> I know nothing about.
> 
> Guidance welcome.
> 
> Best
> 
> George
> 
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