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% Publishing CG Telco — 2020-10-21
Publishing CG Telco — Minutes
Date: 2020-10-21
See also the Agenda and the IRC Log
Attendees
Present: Mateus Teixeira, Ivan Herman, Tzviya Siegman, Zheng Xu (徐征), Avneesh Singh, Yu-Wei Chang (Yanni), Paul Gilius, Michalis Kalamaras, Alex Grover, Vladimir Charitonov, Charles LaPierre, Brady Duga, Bill Kasdorf, Naomi Kennedy, Phil Barker, Curney Bennett, Ralph Swick, Jessica Upmeier, Marisa DeMeglio, Laura Brady, Julian Calderazi, Marianne Gulstad, Damian Gibbs, Juan Corona, George Kerscher, Garth Conboy, Alice Wershing, Jessica Waßmuth, Naomi Kennedy, Hadrien Gardeur
Regrets: Dave Cramer
Guests:
Chair: Zheng Xu (徐征), Mateus Teixeira
Scribe(s): Zheng Xu (徐征), Ralph Swick
Content:
Zheng Xu (徐征): feel free to jump back if got time dauwhe
1. Opening remarks
Mateus Teixeira: opening introduction
… we are welcoming ideas from publisher or anyone else
… which might not need to be on rec tracking
… Any ideas can benefit of becoming wg we can also support
… As a note, much of existing epu3 cg work is moved to epub3 wg
… the work not in epub3 wg will be pointing to publishingcg
Ralph Swick: warm welcome
… feel free to raise hand on zoom or q+ in irc to ask questions
Mateus Teixeira: https://www.w3.org/Consortium/cepc/
Mateus Teixeira: please read through the code of conduction
… if any questions please feel free to reach me and zheng
… start round self-introduction
… (skip each one’s interesting introduction here)
2. Introductions
Zheng Xu (徐征): I work for Rakuten/Kobo
… very excited to be joining this CG
Ivan Herman: working in w3c also other wg
Garth Conboy: working on epub since 99? also co-chairing audiobooks wg
Alex Grover: working on ebook researching
George Kerscher: with Daisy. Has been working with this area for ever. Focusing on education with epub
Avneesh Singh: with Daisy. working on accessibility
Bill Kasdorf: publishing tech consultant. working on epub from era of IDPF.
… also recruiting forks for magazine and different area for publishing
Brady Duga: with Google. Interested in doc about epub. working on reading system and interested in getting good content
Charles LaPierre: from benetech. Focusing on a11y and get epub Global Certified Accessible (GCA) for a11y
… and best practice
Courney Benett: with scribd (sorry if I miss name)
… working on magazine
… especially a11y with magazine
Damian Gibbs: look forward to help publishing on board international
Hadrien Gardeur: with DeMarque (pls fix name…)
… also have reading system
… mostly on epub
Jessica Waßmuth: work for German company bookwire
… provide conversion service for publisher
Juan Corona: system developer. Contributor of Readium
… interesting in a11y
… working on Legible (if I did not misspell)?
Julian Calderazi: we develop ebooks and having fun
Laura Brady: work in trade publishing in Canada.
… interested in a11y
Marianne Gulstad: provide ebook to danish publishers, retailers and distributors
… interesting in a11y
… also interested in epubcheck and everything about ebook
Marisa DeMeglio: shocked Mateus reading name correctly
Marisa DeMeglio: https://www.w3.org/community/sync-media-pub/
Marisa DeMeglio: working as developer
Michalis Kalamaras: working with tech company around epublishing.
Naomi Kennedy: with pengium random house
… fix ebooks in automated way
Paul Gilius: working with Jassica and interested in ebook as production. Very interested in tech stuff
… interested in discussing new ideas
Phil Barker: interested in online courses/educations
… metadata. Chairing in metadata group in…
Ralph Swick: with w3c. Great to support web community. Look forward to work with pcg
… will do whatever Ivan said
… hope can help pcg
Tzviya Siegman: Working with Wiley.
… co-author of code conduct
… this cg is full of friends pls feel free to reach out
carl: With “” publish, focusing on education publishing in Penn
3. Task Forces
Mateus Teixeira: move on to next item - task forces
… over the past experience it became to be a good idea to have cg (tk) to work independently
… The way work will be structured here is as a Task Force
… beside the task force (tf) in agenda you can create new tf
… we need you to have at least one use case
… we will need to track progress of tf
… tf will be self-driven
… we can follow up with email after this meeting
George Kerscher: the activity is may not towards standardization. But notes or report might be “published”, right?
Mateus Teixeira: absolutely, note and tech report is one of way to “publish”
Ralph Swick: cg is entitled to publish anything (maybe whitepaper as “Community Group Reports”)
Mateus Teixeira: integrate any old epub tf to here including documentation.
Tzviya Siegman: also need to check with dave, wendy and Shinya about working with epub3 wg
Mateus Teixeira: we can connect with wg offline. also about how to help contributing wg work
Ivan Herman: https://github.com/w3c/epub-specs is the repository for the EPUB WG work
Tzviya Siegman: https://github.com/w3c/epub-specs
Bill Kasdorf: many ppl are interested in epub work but not aligned with epub 3 wg yet. They might be interested in cg. Also, some forks would be interested in not epub but web publishing or audiobook
… both can be in scope of pcg
… should there be a web publication tf?
Mateus Teixeira: certainly
Tzviya Siegman: I invite you to look at https://discourse.wicg.io/t/proposal-content-aggregation-technology/4941
Mateus Teixeira: next topic - a11y and document about epub
… ask avneesh
Avneesh Singh: a11y was already on topic of epub 3 cg
Avneesh Singh: https://w3c.github.io/publ-a11y/UX-Guide-Metadata/principles/
Avneesh Singh: define metadata for publishing
… have some documentation ready
Avneesh Singh: http://www.a11ymetadata.org/the-specification/metadata-crosswalk/
Avneesh Singh: also have some discussion about a11y metadata with onix
Avneesh Singh: https://github.com/w3c/publ-a11y/issues
Avneesh Singh: these things are about what we are doing now. Apart from these will be best practice for a11y.
George Kerscher: will a11y tf have a regular call
Avneesh Singh: we will decide in Nov
Juan Corona: Re: Other ideas? I’d like to mention: Annotations, locators, linking and JS (all can be related together, or not. we can disambiguate)
George Kerscher: how will ppl self organize for example sending email to pcg?
Avneesh Singh: we tried to use prefix used in epub 3 cg before
… we will discuss later
Mateus Teixeira: encourage of using pcg ML the same way as epub3 cg before
Mateus Teixeira: https://www.w3.org/community/publishingcg/
Mateus Teixeira: https://github.com/w3c/publishingcg
Mateus Teixeira: feel free to create issue in pcg repo and raise issue
… will link a11y repo from pcg github
… pcg will have regular meeting once per month to share status of each tf
… zheng and I will follow up with epub doc tf
… anyone has idea about form tf pls feel free to send email to ML
George Kerscher: we always use the same zoom link for pcg meeting
Mateus Teixeira: Thank you all