Re: Workshop Proposal for TPAC

Thanks for the great suggestion, Wendy.  I agree that we need more 
conversations in which to discuss what the industry feels our priorities 
should be for the next several years.  And it makes sense to me to 
create an opportunity at TPAC to energize that conversation.

I propose that we use a large part of tomorrow's SC meeting to plan such 
an event.

I concur with others who have said that the name "workshop" will connote 
a type of event that will be difficult to include in this year's TPAC 
plans.  So, three outcomes of the discussion tomorrow that I'd like to 
see are:

1. Outline of the goals of the "session"
2. Working title for the session (*)
3. Who's the organizing {lead, committee}

The TPAC Events Team will also want to know our request for room 
capacity and duration.  We might find it easiest to extend one of the 
slots requested for the EPUB WG by an hour or two but also distinguish 
this session from the WG agenda.

-Ralph

[*] Perhaps something along the lines of "Whiteboarding Web Digital
Publishing futures"

On 2022-05-25 10:31 AM, Reid, Wendy wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> I hope everyone is having a wonderful week and enjoying the spring weather!
> 
> Since we didn’t have an SC meeting this month, and won’t until June now 
> due to holidays, I wanted to suggest something here in the hopes we can 
> mull over it before the June meeting and come to some consensus.
> 
> TPAC is approaching, and the EPUB WG is progressing towards REC more or 
> less on schedule. I foresee us potentially having to extend the charter 
> beyond the Feb 2023 deadline by a few months due to delays in getting to 
> CR, but we are very much on track for REC status no later than Q2 2023.
> 
> The problem now is what comes after. We don’t have a clear idea for a 
> charter for the next phase of publishing standards, and while the WG and 
> CG have had ideas raised, nothing has yet come up that amounts to a 
> complete charter or plan for the future. We have time, but if we hope to 
> charter a group immediately following EPUB, we’re a ways off.
> 
> After talking to a few people in this group, I wanted to raise the idea 
> of running a workshop for the publishing community at TPAC, taking 
> advantage of the attendance of members of EPUB, but also a venue where 
> if any questions about other specs or charters get raised, we have 
> access to people to help right away.
> 
> I do want to emphasize for this workshop I want more than just EPUB 
> people there, I think it would be good to open it up to anyone in our 
> industry interested in the future of standards, or at least interested 
> in solving some of the problems our industry faces currently and going 
> forward. Any work we do in this new WG would be years away from 
> implementation, but we have to start somewhere.
> 
> In terms of logistics, it would be a hybrid workshop (so welcome to 
> in-person and remote attendance), and we would want representation from 
> all parts of the digital publishing space: publishers, retailers, 
> distributors, tool vendors, alternate format providers, accessibility 
> professionals, and conversion vendors.
> 
> I would love everyone’s thoughts and opinions on this, it would be great 
> to have some discussion on this over email before the meeting in the 
> hopes of deciding whether to proceed.
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> Wendy
>

Received on Thursday, 9 June 2022 15:11:28 UTC