Re: Workshop Proposal for TPAC

This is a terrific idea, Wendy. If it goes ahead, I'm quite sure I can 
get some recruiting prospects to join in on that meeting, from some of 
the sectors you mentioned. Having it hybrid would be essential for that, 
though; they would be unlikely to attend in person.

On 2022-05-25 10:31, 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

-- 
Bill Kasdorf
Principal, Kasdorf & Associates, LLC
Founding Partner, Publishing Technology Partners
W3C Global Publishing Evangelist
bill.kasdorf@w3.org

Received on Wednesday, 25 May 2022 14:36:00 UTC