15:41:14 RRSAgent has joined #pbg 15:41:14 logging to https://www.w3.org/2019/10/01-pbg-irc 15:41:15 rrsagent, set log public 15:41:15 Meeting: Publishing Business Group Telco 15:41:15 Chair: liisa 15:41:15 Date: 2019-09-01 15:41:15 Agenda: https://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-publishingbg/2019Sep/0017.html 15:41:15 ivan has changed the topic to: Meeting Agenda 2019-09-01: https://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-publishingbg/2019Sep/0017.html 15:41:16 Regrets+ jeff, george 15:56:32 laudrain has joined #pbg 15:56:40 present+ 15:59:46 regrets+ BillK 16:00:37 regrets+ Jonathan_Greenberg 16:00:59 present+ 16:01:14 Avneesh has joined #pbg 16:01:28 present+ Karen 16:01:35 present+ 16:01:37 present+ 16:01:57 present+ 16:02:09 Daihei has joined #pbg 16:02:11 Zakim, who is here? 16:02:11 Present: laudrain, mateus, Karen, wendyreid, dauwhe_, ivan 16:02:13 On IRC I see Daihei, Avneesh, laudrain, RRSAgent, Zakim, mateus, ivan, dauwhe, Rachel, wendyreid, Karen, Ralph, bigbluehat 16:02:18 present+ dauwhe 16:02:23 regrets+ liisa 16:02:51 regrets+ rkwright 16:03:06 Dan_Sanicola has joined #pbg 16:03:46 garth has joined #pbg 16:03:54 present+ Garth 16:04:00 present+ 16:04:12 present+ rachel 16:04:57 scribenick: Karen 16:05:37 Luc: Agenda first item is Updates 16:06:10 ...there is every two weeks calls with US/Europe and Asia 16:06:15 ...we rescheduled call from 17th 16:06:28 ...of December 16:06:36 ...Thank you, Garth for updating all of the invitations 16:06:43 ...we will work this way through the end of this year 16:06:52 ...and work with you again for next year [2020] 16:06:57 ...Any comment on the schedule? 16:06:57 q? 16:07:02 present+ 16:07:19 Luc: the way we want to work is to propose that you identify some business cases or issues you would like to discuss in this group 16:07:42 ...we would like to have this looked after by 2-3 people outside of the PubBG calls, and then bring to this call for discussion and resolution 16:07:58 q+ 16:08:02 ...as there are two calls, there would be emails for consensus calls for the whole group so that all the PubBG members can participate 16:08:02 q- 16:08:11 ...That is the first topic 16:08:20 ...We are set up with dates for future calls 16:08:43 ...We could not look at second topic, short feedback from TPAC Publishing Summit we organized 16:08:47 Topic: Feedback from the TPAC event 16:08:56 ...Daihei, would you please give us some feedback 16:09:02 Daihei: Thank you for all who joined in the meeting 16:09:09 ...and for the help with GTM and irc 16:09:20 ...we had a lot of people attending from 9:00am to 12:30pm Japan 16:09:24 ...at one time I counted 16:09:35 ...around 70 people attending the event, and we originally planned for 50 16:09:38 ...we had a full agenda 16:09:49 ...and prior to that, having started the conference with Professor Jun Murai 16:09:59 ...who started with a comment about this being an historic meeting 16:10:10 ...right before that meeting, CSS Working Group announced the vertical writing 16:10:20 ...which enables Japanese type or other vertically written language 16:10:33 ...it can be made into the web very easily 16:10:41 ...so now not only for Japanese 16:10:54 ...also traditional horizontal writing for languages 16:11:08 ...the real combination for a worldwide, diversified culture 16:11:22 ...After that we covered EPUB3.2, Dave Cramer explained 16:11:31 ...and the status of EPUBCheck2 16:11:43 ...and @ from Kadokawa talked about EPUBCheck for Japan 16:11:49 ...so this covered the status of EPUB3.2 16:11:55 ...Discussion about AudioBook was organized 16:12:11 ...Wendy Reid made a great presentation on the status and how it's going to a standard 16:12:19 ...And Laurent spoke about audiobooks 16:12:37 ...another example of publishing at W3C to go to a standard for Rec Track 16:12:43 ...We then talked about Accessibility 16:12:53 ...DAISY presentation 16:13:08 ...and Accessibility in Japan; audio/visual things 16:13:19 ...Avneesh explained to a greater extent the global accessibility 16:13:37 ...and having difficulties being able to listen to the accessible audio system 16:13:49 ...Makoto-san explained about accessibility for ISO standard 16:13:57 ...it was very good quality presentations 16:14:10 ...Finally, next stage for digital publications content and the business cases 16:14:15 ...there were four people who presented 16:14:25 ...Yoshii from Kodansha and @ from Kadokawa 16:14:34 ...talked about their point of view from publishing industry people 16:14:46 ...Additionally, there were two people stating their views from non-publishers 16:15:05 ...One, Igarashi-san from SONY, co-chair from W3C Media & Entertainment IG 16:15:18 ...he made interesting point that media people could do more convergence 16:15:25 ...and finally Florian talked about EPUB3.2 16:15:33 ...and after that "after EPUB" situation 16:15:42 ...where he would like to have more participation from the Publishing members 16:16:09 ...at W3C and others related to publishing industry to join in the CSS, HTML and other web technology groups to expand the horizon of digital publishing, going beyond the EPUB 16:16:15 ...that was a 3.5 hour discussion 16:16:25 ...and Professor Murai, also a key person at W3C 16:16:36 ...he commented that this was a very productive meeting, as well as historic 16:16:40 ...he proved the fact 16:16:49 ...and he stayed for the whole meeting 16:17:00 ...that is a good proof for how the meeting was 16:17:12 ...Thank you Luc, all the people from the program committee, and thanks to W3C Keio 16:17:16 ...the meeting went very well 16:17:24 ...We had attendance from president from Kodansha 16:17:33 ...Also president of Shuesha came the night before 16:17:37 ...and he sent his key executives 16:17:45 ...so there were key execs from Japan and from abroad 16:17:48 ...that's about it, Luc 16:17:53 Luc: thank you very much, Daihei 16:18:03 ...you did a lot of work to make this meeting go smoothly 16:18:18 ...Noting that the presentations were done in Japanese and English; slides were translated 16:18:32 ...and some people spoke both languages and it was very interesting to be in this place and in Japan 16:18:45 ...you have the link to the minutes, which includes links to the slides 16:18:59 Daihei: I will post it and make it open to all the PubBG members later today 16:19:01 q? 16:19:06 Luc: any comments or questions on this topic? 16:19:29 Topic: Strategy Call Meeting; Future of Groups 16:19:41 ...for PubBG, there were some points raised 16:19:53 ...and once more point for EPUB3.2 to become a W3C Rec was raised 16:20:06 ...we need to discuss this again in this group, hear the business view of this 16:20:12 ...we will not discuss it thoroughly today 16:20:18 ...but we propose that we consider all together 16:20:28 ...the link to the document we established last winter 16:20:34 ...where we put pros and cons in place 16:20:52 ...this is the base document to work on, to think about this possibility together 16:21:01 ...and hopefully come to consensus 16:21:21 ...this is not about the EPUB3 CG; list is more than 250 members 16:21:35 ...this is more about PubBG a question of business opportunity to have a Rec document 16:21:36 https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/17CyIqihtjjzT7Abbcq9sSqLNqLGKs2cuXdg4DcFulGY/edit#gid=0 16:21:43 ...Question is whether or not you think it is necessary 16:21:52 q+ 16:22:00 ...We would like to discuss this thoroughly on next month's call 16:22:09 ...Speaking about the way to work in this group 16:22:22 ...Are there people here who would be willing to work and rebuild this document 16:22:34 ...and build conditions for this group to come to consensus next month? 16:22:38 ack dauwhe 16:22:56 Dauwhe: The CG is discussing its roadmap and how we want it to evolve 16:23:03 ...we will discuss this one week from Thursday 16:23:18 ...we will send out documentation; a new charter draft, over the next few days 16:23:38 [11 October 2019] 16:23:56 Luc: if all the people will discuss this, it will be considered an open discussion 16:24:08 ...and addressed in future calls, perhaps in the Asian-US call in two weeks 16:24:21 q+ 16:24:28 ...if you agree with the process, we will open this disussion and have elements to discuss 16:24:33 ack Rachel 16:24:38 Rachel: you mentioned process 16:24:46 ...you mentioned comments on the spreadsheet 16:24:53 ...what will be the process for making a decision? 16:25:05 q+ 16:25:05 Luc: hopefully I would like to see this group come to consensus 16:25:12 ...I have no pre-defined process for that 16:25:21 ...It depends upon the various positions, pros and cons 16:25:27 ...we will need to establish conditions 16:25:35 ...I have no pre-defined process issues on that 16:25:36 q+ 16:25:37 ...we can also share 16:25:44 Rachel: I just want to be careful 16:25:51 ...when we use the term "process" 16:26:06 ack Avneesh 16:26:09 ...and make sure everyone agreed with the process before moving forward with a decision 16:26:20 Avneesh: I see something missing in the spreadsheet 16:26:24 ...how will EPUB change 16:26:28 ...also relates to future roadmap 16:26:43 q+ 16:26:43 ...suppose CG sends us on a roadmap that they think are essential 16:26:56 ...but we are not able to move forward on them because they are not yet mature specifications 16:27:09 ...let us proceed and make decisions then 16:27:16 Luc: ok 16:27:28 ack dauwhe 16:27:40 Dauwhe: The BG does not create specifications or create working groups 16:27:53 ...the BG can offer advice and say yes, we think doing this in a certain way is a good idea 16:28:01 ...which is different from writing a WG charter for EPUB 16:28:13 ...just want us to maybe think a little bit what's within scope for the BG itself 16:28:26 ...I think much of what the BG can do is to offer advice rather than making binding decisions 16:28:32 Luc: ok, thank you, good point 16:28:33 ack Luc 16:28:59 Luc: I just wanted to be on queue to remind everyone that last year we did not think it was a good idea 16:29:05 ack laudrain 16:29:08 ...personally I do not think it's a good idea 16:29:19 ...but we should be clear about what we put inside the Rec Track decision 16:29:28 ...I had chance to discuss with Wendy R in Fukuoka 16:29:51 ...One important thing is that EPUB should be compatible with the current state today because of business we do in the industry 16:30:04 ...that is what BG has to take care about; it's about advice as you said, Dave 16:30:09 ...we have already given some advice on that 16:30:11 q? 16:30:14 ack WendyReid 16:30:34 Wendy: I said this in Fukuoka 16:30:50 ...should a WG, not nec publishing, to handle the work of EPUB3 Rec Track 16:31:06 ...because I don't doubt things will change as we get privacy and horizontal reviews 16:31:20 ...what is clear is that EPUB3 does not succeed if it is not backwards compatible 16:31:33 ...any charter written must make backwards compatibility a requirement 16:31:44 ...the perk is that we have a decade of incubation and implementation 16:32:02 ...not like the problems we had with Web Publications where there were not problems identified or implemented 16:32:07 ...There is space for the CG 16:32:14 ...ideas to get incubated and could be 16:32:26 ...rigor of the standardization process will be good in the long run 16:32:43 ...industry has made it incredibly clear is EPUB is what they want to work on and what they want to sell 16:32:46 +1 wendyreid 16:32:55 ...why disrupt a billion industry 16:32:55 +1 wendyreid 16:32:58 Luc: thank you for this 16:33:02 ...I support your vision 16:33:09 Luc: this is an open question 16:33:35 laurent_ has joined #pbg 16:33:44 ...if there are no more comments now, we can share with PubBG, people who are not here, those who sent regrets and those who don't come to calls will consider these questions 16:33:54 ...encourage everyone to have a look, and to share visions and comments 16:34:11 ...For the process, I don't know how we will do it; hope we have a resolution and good consensus 16:34:22 ...not sure if a vote is avaiailable or not; +1 or -1 16:34:26 q+ 16:34:28 ...but we have to have this discussion 16:34:31 ack Avneesh 16:34:37 Avneesh: I am still a bit concerned 16:34:41 ...the BG question 16:34:50 ...can we work together to resolve this 16:35:10 Luc: Dave, what do you expect from the CG that would help, or need to be synchronized with the BG? 16:35:17 Dave: The CG exists to maintain EPUB3 16:35:37 ...so we are eager for any feedback on how EPUB is working in the world, what works and what needs to be changed 16:35:48 q+ 16:35:49 ...We hope a lot of that feedback comes from the Business Group 16:36:11 ...At least currently, I am trying to look at where EPUB needs to go, without making a decision on what process is the best way to achieve our goals 16:36:16 +1 Dave 16:36:31 ...And whether RecTrack is the best way to make EPUB better? I don't have the answer to that question now 16:36:44 ...in short-term I want to focus on the roadmap and how to make the spec better 16:36:53 ...and this can be folded into the other question of RecTrack 16:36:59 ack laudrain 16:37:05 Luc: Do we need to be in a hurry for that? 16:37:25 ...As Avneesh said, having the CG building a view of the roadmap, and make the BG fully aware of the thoughts 16:37:37 ...and not having these discussions before the CG builds something significant 16:37:41 ...My question here to you all 16:37:46 ...We don't have to set up time limit 16:37:59 ...probably not say we have to take a decision in a month's time 16:38:05 q+ 16:38:11 ...maybe two months or end of year, but it would be valuable to come to consensus 16:38:14 ack Avneesh 16:38:33 Avneesh: The PubBG charter...I don't think we can do it in one month 16:38:41 ...just want to not go into a one-month cycle 16:38:51 ...let's work closely with EPUB3 CG and then determine a timeline 16:38:55 q+ 16:39:00 Luc: I heard Wendy say a Working Group 16:39:10 ...if there is decision to go to RecTrack for EPUB 16:39:13 ...Wendy? 16:39:21 s/a Working Group/_a_ Working Group/ 16:39:30 Wendy: yes, I say this because the Publishing WG charter does expire next year 16:39:47 ...I say a WG, because maybe the PubWG is rechartered, or perhaps we charter a new WG 16:39:50 ...leaving that open 16:39:51 +1 to Wendy 16:40:00 ...because we still don't know what the future of the PubWG is 16:40:09 Luc: very good, I think we are on task to build consensus 16:40:15 ...thank you very much 16:40:24 ...if no more comment, I propose we move on 16:40:30 Topic: Accessibility 16:40:46 Luc: As co-chairs of this BG, we are figuring out issues about the implementation of Accessibilty 16:40:51 ...and this relates to different countries 16:41:06 ...Some countries expect some things to work, other countries expect other things to work 16:41:17 ...the work on Accessibility all over the world 16:41:30 ...we had this interesting presentation from Avneesh; encourage you to read his slides and the minutes 16:41:54 ...In Europe we have this issue; different countries have set up needs, we also have European directive 16:42:00 ...we would like to share best practices 16:42:13 ...that BG members and publishing industry in general could be more accurate 16:42:24 ....and know what reading system should do 16:42:41 ...we think it will help reading systems work in a systemized way 16:42:53 ...would be bad to have to cope with different best practices and regulations 16:42:58 ...This is something we would like to share with you 16:43:15 ...There is a lot of work being done by DAISY, Benetech, others, especially on exposing metadata 16:43:26 ...in digital bookstores is also an important issue 16:43:34 ...there is good work on what should be explained to book stores 16:43:48 ...so customers all over the world have the same way to expose the accessibility of ebooks 16:43:57 q? 16:44:05 ...but we also want to have this discussion on implementations and what works and doesn't 16:44:09 ack WendyReid 16:44:24 Wendy: Speaking for Canada, we are trying to work on it, too. It's an international interest 16:44:35 Luc: we have made some progress on the upstream part of supply chain 16:44:49 ...we have EPUB Accessibility standard; we have the ISO one; discussions on metadata 16:45:04 ...and also in ONYX to distribute to the supply chain 16:45:19 ...and then showing possibility of the books stores, supply chain; and then the reading systems 16:45:25 q+ 16:45:28 ...We would like the reading systems to be fully synchronized 16:45:33 s/ONYX/ONIX/ 16:45:38 ...would you mind to have some kind of task force on that? 16:45:43 ack Avneesh 16:45:54 Avneesh: There is the accessibility testing protocol defines requirements 16:46:02 ...but it's in form of a test book not in form of guidelines 16:46:13 ...maybe this can be part of new roadmap, to have more guidelines 16:46:22 ...we have 5-6 years of experience of testing 16:46:25 ...production side 16:46:28 ...knowledge base 16:46:37 ...@ piece we have chartered the task force 16:46:40 ...in EPUB3 CG 16:46:51 ...definitely guidelines for reading systems, we could start a TF for that, yes 16:47:02 Luc: you already have some piece of information, an epub? 16:47:09 Avneesh: yes, a testing protocol 16:47:15 Luc: is there a pointer, a web site 16:47:30 Aveneesh: EPUBtest.org is doing it based on the protocol 16:47:41 Luc: if people are volunteering for this TF, we should work on it 16:47:45 ...good 16:47:47 q? 16:47:55 Luc: next topic 16:48:01 Topic: EPUBCheck Fundraising 16:48:12 ...we have received some new funding recently 16:48:19 ...it's still a bit more than two thirds 16:48:29 ...we still need $50K dollars more 16:48:37 ...we would like to relaunch the communications on this fundraising 16:48:40 ...several tasks to do 16:48:46 ...George identified task 16:49:03 ...web page that spoke about the W3C fundraising should be updated. I will take care of that 16:49:42 ...EPUBCheck management call, we identified there should be a document to explain the different phases; Romain did this, so please comment on this base document 16:49:51 ...it should explain to the industry that it's not finished 16:50:06 ...EPUBCheck is a long-term tool and should be maintained by people in open source, meaning that newcomers 16:50:25 ...should be able to participate in the long-term, make it easy to bring new features, improvements 16:50:40 ...there are some improvements on synchronization of media, media overlay that needs work 16:50:46 ...looking at EPUB3 CG work 16:50:55 ...and there will be new check to develop in the future 16:51:10 ...it can be done in a way where it doesn't only depend on DAISY, but also rely on the larger community 16:51:20 ...we need some money still; and there is testing work 16:51:38 ...meaning EPUBCheck has to be validated. There is huge work from Romain to build a testing suite 16:51:55 ...it is being considered to have resources outsourced, so another reason why we need money 16:52:27 ...I shared the document from Romain, and the slides Romain showed us at the F2F at TPAC Fukuoka, where he explains how we can open up this development to newcomers 16:52:39 ...The slides are in English and Japanese, so good to propogate 16:52:48 ...We should think about more communications about this project 16:52:58 ...I will prepare a blog post for the relaunch in the next two weeks 16:53:16 ...the next time we need to pay DAISY Consortium is the beginning of next year; we are short and need money for the next phase 16:53:18 q? 16:53:20 ...Questions or comments? 16:53:34 ...good 16:53:46 ...We also have this discussion in this gorup on the long-term 16:53:52 s/gorup/group 16:54:00 ...we would like to identify business cases that are in the market 16:54:08 ...we are looking at new business done in new markets 16:54:15 ...where web technologies are used but without standards 16:54:32 ...that these cases are successful is a hint for how to standardize them for the whole community 16:54:36 ...there is a question of competition 16:54:47 ...but we know standards also enable good competition in all our markets 16:54:54 ...Something we should share here and hope future meetings 16:55:02 ...this winter to bring new hints of the future 16:55:09 q+ 16:55:15 ack Daihei 16:55:32 Daihei: after TPAC I had a few discussions with people inside of publishing 16:55:43 ...having told them about what next stage of DigPub could be 16:55:53 ...some were already engaged in some projects going beyond EPUB 16:56:05 ...or they are not necessarily thinking about it 16:56:10 ...some staying in print books 16:56:17 ...others doing Manga to expand 16:56:29 q+ 16:56:31 ...the entertainment park kind of ideas 16:56:44 ...also including developers, almost like Disneyland on a small scale 16:56:48 ...ride with the characters 16:56:59 ...a company might have special editions of Manga stories 16:57:16 ...or peopel talking about web publications for children books or for educational purposes 16:57:20 ...not only in Japan 16:57:28 ...but I spoke with entertainment industry people in US 16:57:42 ...SONY omniplex and SONY TV 16:57:51 ...they are also trying to go into anime 16:57:57 ...nature business but also 16:58:14 ...a spin-out of products utilizing publishing technologies 16:58:21 ...related to Manga and comics 16:58:28 ...we should look into what is going on 16:58:40 ...and think through the pros and cons, the technology and creative aspects 16:59:02 ...and how it has chances of developing larger publishing business 16:59:08 ...that's what I think we should do 16:59:15 Luc: you reminded me that we skipped a point 16:59:20 ...about engaging with EPUBCG 16:59:31 ...we will discuss with Laurent LeMeur about this @ 16:59:38 ...to get more insights to engage more with this 16:59:49 ...creation and development business and perhaps future standard 16:59:52 q? 16:59:53 ...we are almost at the hour 16:59:57 ack laudrain 16:59:58 ...if you have no comments for today 17:00:09 ...I wish you a nice day, night, afternoon to all 17:00:16 ...and thank you very much for these discussions 17:00:18 rrsagent, draft minutes 17:00:18 I have made the request to generate https://www.w3.org/2019/10/01-pbg-minutes.html ivan 17:00:18 zakim, bye 17:00:18 rrsagent, bye 17:00:18 I see no action items 17:00:18 leaving. As of this point the attendees have been laudrain, mateus, Karen, wendyreid, dauwhe_, ivan, Garth, Dan_Sanicola, rachel, Avneesh 17:00:18 Zakim has left #pbg 17:00:20 [adjourned]