16:42:57 RRSAgent has joined #pbg 16:42:57 logging to https://www.w3.org/2019/02/12-pbg-irc 16:42:58 rrsagent, set log public 16:42:58 Meeting: Publishing Business Group Telco 16:42:58 Chair: luc 16:42:58 Date: 2019-02-12 16:42:58 Agenda: https://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-publishingbg/2019Feb/0000.html 16:42:58 ivan has changed the topic to: Meeting Agenda 2019-02-12: https://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-publishingbg/2019Feb/0000.html 16:42:59 Regrets+ rachel, Derek_Jackson, jensklingelhoefer, avneesh, liisa 16:43:45 wolfgang has joined #pbg 16:49:53 wolfgang has joined #pbg 16:55:17 JKamata has joined #pbg 16:56:36 present+ 16:56:45 present+ 16:57:51 present+ wolfgang 16:57:54 laudrain has joined #pbg 16:58:02 Present+ 16:58:36 Present+ 16:58:48 present+ daihei 16:59:29 Jonathan_Greenberg has joined #pbg 17:00:33 present+ cristina 17:00:54 present+ 17:01:22 mateus has joined #pbg 17:01:28 present+ 17:02:07 Bill_Kasdorf has joined #pbg 17:02:16 present+ Bill_Kasdorf 17:02:27 MURATA has joined #pbg 17:02:54 present+ 17:02:55 rkwright has joined #pbg 17:03:00 scribenick: dauwhe 17:03:06 topic: updates 17:03:18 laudrain: we've started to talk about changing the times of bg calls 17:03:39 ... every two weeks we'd have a Euro-friendly time, and and two weeks later an Asia-friendly time 17:03:53 garth has joined #pbg 17:03:59 present+ Garth 17:04:03 Daihei has joined #pbg 17:04:18 Garth: I should have updated all the invites per what Luc is saying now. 17:04:18 jeff has joined #pbg 17:04:26 present+ rkwright 17:04:27 ... so one call would be at 0 UTC, and one at 17UTC 17:04:40 I got eight updates--should I accept them all? 17:04:49 q? 17:04:59 MURATA: can we make the euro call one hour earlier? 17:05:10 laudrain: it's the same agenda 17:05:20 ivan: is the japanese call in one week or two weeks? 17:05:23 laudrain: two weeks 17:05:25 PBG Meetings: 17:05:26 Tues Feb 12th -- 12:00p Eastern (repeat every four weeks) 17:05:27 Tues Feb 26th -- 7:00p Eastern (repeat every four weeks) 17:06:01 laudrain: the agenda of today will be the asia-friendly agenda of two weeks from now 17:06:17 George has joined #pbg 17:06:29 ivan: this means we will have BG only once a month, for Luc and I 17:06:42 laudrain: yes, unless there is some urgent subject that needs a decision 17:06:51 present+ George 17:06:58 q? 17:07:05 q+ 17:07:09 ivan: I am not absolutely sure I like this 17:07:17 ack ivan 17:07:20 present+ 17:07:22 q- 17:07:34 MURATA: can a meeting make a decision? Because two weeks later there will be another meeting with different people 17:07:39 ... which can make a decision 17:07:44 laudrain: we can share decisions 17:07:53 ivan: it will be very far away in terms of time 17:08:24 ... my feeling was that we would have, every second week, a meeting like now, and every second week an asia-friendly meeting 17:08:32 ... people could join both, or once 17:08:45 ... so we would meet every two weeks at least 17:08:53 ... this way there is one BG call per month 17:09:01 q+ 17:09:02 +1 to ivan 17:09:06 ... I don't think this will help in maintaining a regular discussion 17:09:15 ack garth 17:09:16 +q 17:09:18 garth: I was going to split the difference 17:09:24 present+ 17:09:35 ... having a BG call once a week seems too frequent, even if it alternates 17:09:52 ... but maybe have a meeting every two weeks, but not with the same agenda 17:10:04 ack garth 17:10:07 MURATA: sometimes because of agenda people have to attend anyway 17:10:09 ack MURATA 17:10:21 ... for example today has ISO topics, so I feel obligated to attend 17:10:43 q? 17:10:50 ivan: so if we have alternate time zones each week but repeating agenda, it wold be better 17:10:54 q+ 17:10:58 q+ 17:11:05 s/wold/would/ 17:11:14 q+ 17:11:20 q+ 17:11:22 ... having one meeting a month is detrimental 17:11:29 laudrain: the idea is to have the same agenda 17:11:32 q? 17:11:49 ack laudrain 17:11:52 ... ivan, you think it should be every week (with alternate time zones) 17:11:57 ack Bill_Kasdorf 17:12:02 present+ 17:12:05 Bill_Kasdorf: I'm persuaded that every week alternating makes sense 17:12:20 Cristina has joined #pbg 17:12:27 ... if there's only a once-a-month call, then you might miss two months if you have to miss a meeting 17:12:30 ack tzviya 17:12:40 q+ 17:12:42 tzviya: the call that I held for the PWG asian members... 17:12:58 ... those who participated were not interested in a call at an asia-friendly time 17:13:09 ... we should ask the people in Asia what they want 17:13:24 Avneesh has an issue with both times as well 17:13:30 ... it's not about what looks better, it's what is actually convenient 17:13:37 ack Daihei 17:13:43 Daihei: let me review 17:13:55 ... every other week, was a question 17:14:11 ... we felt strongly we should set up the time which Asian people could participate better 17:14:25 ... one of the directions of PBG in 2019 is to streamline discussions 17:14:36 ... and moving towards industry interests 17:14:41 ... and then conveyed to the WG 17:14:55 ... the scope and agenda should be narrowed 17:15:00 q+ 17:15:04 ... and then have one call friendly to europe, and one to asia 17:15:14 ... and talk about the same agenda 17:15:26 ... and we'll have the minutes of the first call as material for the second call 17:15:33 +q 17:15:44 ... and most US people can join both meetings 17:15:57 ... the second meeting is a good time to make a decision 17:16:18 ... I'm not going against the once a week idea 17:16:31 ... but I want to remind you of why we proposed today's schedule 17:16:33 https://w3c.github.io/publ-bg/Meetings/Minutes/2019/2019-01-29-pbg 17:16:47 laudrain: I will put the link where we discussed this option, and approved it 17:17:20 ack rkwright 17:17:24 rkwright: I'm concerned about duplicate agendas, but Daihei addressed that 17:17:26 q- 17:17:42 ack MURATA 17:18:01 MURATA: what Daihei said is interesting... everyone is going to suffer in the same way 17:18:14 ... when ISO topics are discussed, I am the liason from SC34. 17:18:15 q+ 17:18:27 ... if I'm here I can explain, but if I'm not here I can't 17:18:42 ... will European people be able to understand what is going on in ISO? 17:19:21 laudrain: we have reorganized the agenda. the first section is just informational--not discussion 17:19:36 ... some european people involved in ISO, like me, could explain 17:20:01 ... and if questions came up, they could be addressed on the next call 17:20:27 q+ 17:20:31 ack laudrain 17:20:32 ... we can try the every week thing; I think it's too many calls but we could try it 17:20:40 ack ivan 17:21:04 ivan: when you say too many calls, it's the same as now 17:21:13 q+ 17:21:20 ... for US people it may be a lot of calls, but they can choose which calls 17:21:53 laudrain: for Liisa or Daihei, it will be a call every week. 17:22:10 ivan: US people can choose. They can choose which call to join. 17:22:17 ... they are not obliged to be on all calls 17:22:32 PBG Meetings: 17:22:33 Tues Feb 12th -- 12:00p Eastern (repeat every two weeks) 17:22:34 Tues Feb 19th -- 7:00p Eastern (repeat every two weeks) 17:22:46 laudrain: so the resolution would be alternate-time calls, but every week 17:22:58 resolution : alternate time calls evry week with same agenda 17:24:07 laudrain: any objection? 17:24:10 +1 17:24:33 laudrain: we will try and see how it goes? 17:25:02 present+ Karen 17:25:03 topic: ISO work 17:25:15 laudrain: in 2019 there will be three topics starting 17:25:30 ... 3.0.1 as international standard 17:25:40 ... new work item on EPUB a11y 17:25:51 laurent_ has joined #pbg 17:25:52 ... and LCP/DRM for EPUB 17:25:56 laurent_ has left #pbg 17:26:12 present+ laurent_ 17:26:12 q+ 17:26:13 ... it's starting; there are meetings scheduled in Milano at the end of March, and at the end of may in Ottawa 17:26:20 ... and then in Fukuoka before TPAC 17:26:23 ack laudrain 17:26:32 ack George 17:26:47 George: a comment: we've been asked not to call it DRM for EPUB, we don't want to use that trademark with an ISO specification 17:26:51 q+ 17:27:12 George: this is just a matter of the trademark 17:27:27 ... and don't want another organization using the trademark 17:27:32 ack laurent_ 17:27:42 laurent: I will propose it's called DRM for Electronic Publications 17:27:54 MURATA: I've already explained that possiblility, and they're OK with that 17:28:06 laudrain: this work is starting; we'll make you aware after the meetings 17:28:07 q? 17:28:16 Topic: event calendar 17:28:31 laudrain: we've planned to set up a google calendar, to collect publishing industry events 17:28:41 zakim, who is here? 17:28:41 Present: wendyreid, ivan, wolfgang, laudrain, JKamata, daihei, cristina, dauwhe, mateus, Bill_Kasdorf, jyoshii, Garth, rkwright, George, jeff, tzviya, Rachel, Karen, laurent_ 17:28:43 ... any of us can send events of interest to the chairs 17:28:44 On IRC I see Cristina, George, jeff, Daihei, garth, rkwright, MURATA, Bill_Kasdorf, mateus, Jonathan_Greenberg, laudrain, JKamata, wolfgang, RRSAgent, Zakim, Karen, jyoshii, ivan, 17:28:44 ... wendyreid, tzviya, dauwhe, Rachel, bigbluehat, dmitry 17:28:49 ... and all can read 17:29:04 ... regionally or globally 17:29:05 q? 17:29:09 ... any questions? 17:29:22 ... send any events to the chairs. 17:29:28 topic: next steps for EPUB 3.2 17:29:40 laudrain: we are on the verge of seeing EPUBCheck validating EPUB 3.2 17:29:46 ... it's being worked on by DAISY 17:29:56 ... and there's been a 4.2 alpha already 17:30:09 ... there are small tweaks to the spec itself 17:30:25 ... but when the first beta of 4.2 is released, scheduled on Feb 25 17:30:39 ... we hope there will be strong stability of the EPUB 3.2 report from the Community Group 17:30:48 ... then the next question will be getting support for adoption 17:31:02 q+ 17:31:16 ack dauwhe 17:31:25 ... and we should communicate that around the world 17:31:41 q+ 17:31:55 q? 17:32:04 dauwhe: note that most of us are already producing EPUB 3.2 :) 17:32:29 ... but it may take a while for reading system ingestion pipelines to upgrade to the new EPUBCheck 17:32:41 ... and thus allow the new features allowed by 3.2 that aren't in 3.1 17:33:15 laudrain: we could demo a file that is validated by the new EPUBCheck and also use ACE 17:33:30 q? 17:33:36 ... it would be nice to have a practical event 17:33:38 ack laudrain 17:33:57 laudrain: that ends the informational part of the meeting 17:34:11 ... now we hope to discuss more about the AB meetup 17:34:17 topic: AB meetup 17:34:27 laudrain: this brought interest in local meetups 17:34:39 ... liisa would have made the report, but she is ill 17:34:50 ... could someone else recap the meeting for us? 17:35:03 tzviya: I thought it was successful 17:35:16 ... it showed the pub community what working on web standards is like 17:35:28 ... and it showed people on the AB and W3T about the business side of publishing 17:35:57 ... Dave's history of EPUB starting in 1999, and the stories that Liisa told about interop told a great story of what it's like to work on EPUB, and how it differs from the web 17:36:27 ... and good info was shared by berjon & tink about the time committments/timelines for working on browsers 17:36:31 ... it was a bit terrifying 17:37:12 ... it was a small group--twenty to thirty. there were a lot of side conversations. it was a chance to build relationships. 17:37:23 ... that was part of the success. it was fun. 17:37:45 ... selected speakers and targeted topics were a key to success 17:37:53 ... i think such events would be valuable in the future 17:38:04 +1 Tzviya for organizing the program and speakers 17:38:09 laudrain: we should propose this type of event as an alternative to conferences 17:38:17 ... and could be good networking 17:38:27 ... how could we manage to set up these kinds of meetups locally 17:38:36 and +1 to Karen for all the work in organizing the event in such a short time! 17:38:42 Daihei: Yoshii-san and I had a discussion about this 17:38:57 ... first of all, taking the opportunity for a F2F is important 17:39:16 ... having actual conversation is good 17:39:49 ... taking advantage of TPAC in Fukuoka, we talked about APL etc and discussed with Keio, and organize some sort of publishing summit 17:39:58 ... doesn't have to be same as in SF two years ago 17:40:06 ... but have something similar to AB meetup 17:40:23 ... and have atmosphere where free conversation is possible, and have both business and tech people present personally 17:40:24 Before TPAC or after TPAC? 17:40:32 ... we haven't figured out details 17:40:39 ... during, before, or after 17:40:44 q+ 17:40:47 ... APL and W3C Keio can coordinate 17:40:52 ... and then we will present to PBG 17:40:56 q+ 17:40:56 ack ivan 17:41:09 ISO meetings (in particular, JWG7) will happen before TPAC. 17:41:11 ivan: two questions, one is before or after? 17:41:16 q+ 17:41:21 ...and where? at the place of TPAC or in Tokyo? 17:42:10 tzviya: the summit in SFO was valuable, for those of us involved in W3C doing something in TPAC is hard. We're often triple-booked. I'd encourage doing it before or after rather than during 17:42:17 q+ 17:42:21 laudrain: the ISO meetings will be the week before TPAC 17:42:42 q+ 17:42:48 ack tzviya 17:42:48 Julian_calderazi has joined #pbg 17:42:49 present+ 17:42:54 ack laudrain 17:43:09 Daihei: taking advantage of TPAC in Fukuoka, with people already there 17:43:42 ... it would be very difficult to organize away from TPAC 17:44:02 ... we want to do in Fukuoka 17:44:10 ack dauwhe 17:44:11 +1 for Fukuoka 17:44:18 laurent_ has joined #pbg 17:44:23 q? 17:44:38 present+ laurent_ 17:44:44 dauwhe: AB Meetup exchange with business people 17:45:02 … but business people not at TPAC 17:45:03 +1 dauwhe 17:45:07 +1 17:45:11 +1 17:45:13 q+ 17:45:15 q+ 17:45:21 ack ivan 17:45:50 ivan: It's a problem, we did succeed in getting people in getting people to the Hotel California 17:45:59 ... which were not the usual suspects 17:46:12 q+ 17:46:21 ack Karen 17:46:51 Karen: I wanted to make sure that if the event happens during TPAC, you need to get in touch with meeting planners at W3C, like Naomi and and Alexandra 17:47:13 ... there are a lot of logistical things, and would need to modify contracts unless it's entirely offsite 17:47:24 ... and we may need to think about weekends or evenings 17:47:31 q+ 17:47:32 q+ 17:47:33 laudrain: I agree with Ivan 17:47:51 q+ daihei 17:47:53 q+ 17:47:56 q? 17:47:56 ... with Daihei can make something interesting from this opportunity 17:48:01 ack laudrain 17:48:12 ack Rachel 17:48:13 Rachel: Daihei added himself first 17:48:23 ack Daihei 17:48:25 Daihei: To follow up on Karen's point 17:48:41 ... Murai and Yoshi are involved 17:48:53 ... and ??? will help coordinate logistics 17:49:03 s/???/Naomi 17:49:07 s/???/Naomi Yoshizawa 17:49:13 Rachel: my concern about doing this during TPAC, in addition to what Dave said 17:49:25 q? 17:49:38 ... it does isolate us from the rest of the W3C community, thus we can't participate in other things, we can't contribute to other groups 17:49:54 ... I was invited to a11y group meetings, but I couldn't because of a publishing event 17:50:04 ... which makes it harder to do outreach for publishing 17:50:06 +1 17:50:09 +1 17:50:11 ... I won't want to end up in a silo 17:50:14 ack tzviya 17:50:20 +10^1100 17:50:38 q? 17:50:40 q+ 17:50:40 q+ 17:50:52 tzviya: there were many people in Burlingame from a11y, CSSWG, etc. who would have wanted to attend but had conflicts 17:51:05 ... it built a wall between publishing and the rest of W3C 17:51:12 q+ 17:51:19 laudrain: I don't know if this might be an evening networking event 17:51:23 ack ivan 17:51:26 ivan: I agree with the concerns 17:51:27 ack laudrain 17:51:37 dahei q+ 17:51:42 q? 17:51:44 ... I thought that Daihei's idea was before or after TPAC, which would avoid the problems 17:51:48 +1 before or after TPAC in Japan 17:51:49 q+ Daihei 17:51:51 ... but it is a longer stay in japan for some 17:52:12 Daihei: we would like to extend and spirit of the AB meetup 17:52:17 ... to the TPAC meeting 17:52:30 ... we have no intention to obstruct any opportunities at tpac 17:52:47 ... so it doesn't work during TPAC time to have a publishing meeting 17:52:58 ... either before or after, or outside of TPAC programmed time 17:53:04 q? 17:53:09 ack Daihei 17:53:09 ... I'll bring this back to APL and W3C/Keio 17:53:17 q? 17:53:30 +1 Daihei's approach to evaluate further and figure it out 17:53:50 laudrain: we also had planned a discussion on pop-up content 17:53:59 ... expectations we have as a reader or as a publisher 17:54:11 ... why would we use popped-up content 17:54:27 ... do we have strong opinions about this? For footnotes or other things? 17:54:42 ... and share the value of developing more precise standards or best practices? 17:54:50 q+ 17:54:59 ack dauwhe 17:55:07 q+ 17:55:17 dauwhe: EPUB spec doesn’t stop this 17:55:31 … can of worms 17:55:57 q+ 17:56:02 ... if we gather expectations, we have a better chance of this coding working without JS 17:56:11 ... by using epub:type 17:56:34 ack wolfgang 17:56:34 wolfgang: I see two use cases 17:56:38 ... one is a glossary 17:56:48 ... such a popup might be good 17:56:48 thanms garth 17:57:14 ... if you have a second EPUB as an external source dictionary, click on a world and get a dictionary entry 17:57:24 ... there is an EPUB spec for that 17:57:33 q? 17:57:47 figures and tables popping up would be useful too 17:57:47 acl tzviya 17:58:02 tzviya: I can think of hundreds of uses, however I will remind everyone that we're phasing out epub:type and phase in aria roles 17:58:12 q? 17:58:14 ... and those footnote popups don't work in most reading systems 17:58:18 ... and they are unreliable 17:58:19 ack tzviya 17:58:27 +1 to no epub:type; use ARIA roles 17:58:39 q+ 17:58:54 laudrain: we are speaking about expectations 17:59:07 ... today EPUB 3 is running with epub:type 17:59:36 ... and aria roles are devoted to a11y 18:00:11 laudrain: next call is next week at 0 UTC 18:00:27 garth: and this is the same agenda as this week's call 18:00:38 laudrain: yes, I will send agenda with link to minutes 18:01:07 rrsagent, draft minutes 18:01:08 I have made the request to generate https://www.w3.org/2019/02/12-pbg-minutes.html ivan 18:01:08 zakim, bye 18:01:08 rrsagent, bye 18:01:08 I see no action items 18:01:08 leaving. As of this point the attendees have been wendyreid, ivan, wolfgang, laudrain, JKamata, daihei, cristina, dauwhe, mateus, Bill_Kasdorf, jyoshii, Garth, rkwright, George, 18:01:08 Zakim has left #pbg 18:01:11 ... jeff, tzviya, Rachel, Karen, laurent_, Julian_calderazi