RE: Workshop Proposal for TPAC

"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 discussed ideas but not started incubation in Publishing CG.

Having workshop is good, but I believe that incubation of some ideas should
start even before that. Workshop should be used for accelerating it and
possibly receiving some new ideas.

Using workshop for kick starting the process would delay it further. Then
there is end of year holidays, and in new year many of us will get busy in
rolling out EPUB 3.3 rec.

 

With regards

Avneesh

From: Reid, Wendy <wendy.reid@rakuten.com> 
Sent: Wednesday, May 25, 2022 20:01
To: W3C Publishing Steering Committee <public-publishing-sc@w3.org>
Subject: Workshop Proposal for TPAC

 

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