Re: Workshop Proposal for TPAC

Big +1 to this proposal, Wendy.  Thank you.

This year's TPAC will be quite different; fewer attendees, shorter WG 
meetings.  To compensate, a variety of industries are looking at having 
some type of industry-specific gathering embedded in TPAC.  This would 
be a perfect complement.

Jeff

On 5/25/2022 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
>