14:52:07 RRSAgent has joined #pbgsc 14:52:07 logging to https://www.w3.org/2020/05/01-pbgsc-irc 14:52:09 RRSAgent, make logs Public 14:52:10 Meeting: Publishing Steering Committee 14:52:29 Meeting: Publishing Steering Committee Telco 14:52:29 Chair: ralph 14:52:29 Date: 2020-05-01 14:52:29 Agenda: https://www.w3.org/mid/aa5df2ea-b881-b4bf-8a54-98e5789e090f@w3.org 14:55:21 Daihei has joined #pbgsc 14:55:34 present+ 15:00:07 Ralph has joined #pbgsc 15:00:25 present+ 15:00:59 Avneesh has joined #pbgsc 15:01:20 present+ george 15:01:35 wendyreid has joined #pbgsc 15:01:40 George has joined #pbgsc 15:01:44 present+ 15:02:20 present+ 15:02:31 zakim, list attendees 15:02:31 As of this point the attendees have been Daihei, ivan, george, wendyreid, Ralph 15:02:43 present+ Avneesh 15:02:58 present+ Tzviya, BillK 15:03:07 present+ 15:03:40 Bill_Kasdorf has joined #pbgsc 15:04:15 present+ 15:04:21 jeff__ has joined #pbgsc 15:04:52 agenda+ EPUBcheck Update 15:04:59 scribe+ 15:04:59 present+ jeff 15:05:05 tzviya: EPUBCheck Update 15:05:14 zakim, next item 15:05:14 agendum 1. "EPUBcheck Update" taken up [from Ralph] 15:05:20 present+ garth 15:05:23 Avneesh: In the new timeline, milestone 2.1 completion was due April 30 15:05:26 agenda+ Next Steps for the "Future of EPUB" Survey 15:05:28 ... completion of the test suite 15:05:33 ... Romain is on schedule 15:05:40 agenda+ Brainstorming on a "Publishing@W3C Open Meeting" 15:05:42 ... there will also be a maintenance release 15:05:48 regrets+ Liisa 15:06:02 ... because of the lockdown, the release will have to be mindful of people not having the ability to test the release 15:06:21 ... if there are any issues with the HTML checker, it can be problematic 15:06:33 ... we will be doing some testing with publishers and retailers 15:06:48 ... if that is successful we can do the release 15:06:57 i|Agenda:|-> https://www.w3.org/2020/04/17-pbgsc-minutes.html previous 17-April 15:06:57 ... the localization in different languages has also start 15:07:08 ... we'll have different languages for the errors now 15:07:09 chair: Tzviya, Ralph 15:07:13 ... and fundraising continues 15:07:26 q+ 15:07:27 I have made the request to generate https://www.w3.org/2020/05/01-pbgsc-minutes.html Ralph 15:07:32 ack George 15:07:37 tzviya: If there are any other volunteers for testing, please let myself or Avneesh know 15:07:54 George: Are we going to announce this as asking for volunteers for testing, or is it closed 15:08:02 garth has joined #pbgsc 15:08:06 tzviya: I think we have enough testers internally, it's not a huge release 15:08:13 ... we aren't going to publicise it 15:08:15 present+ Garth 15:08:15 present+ Garth 15:08:27 Avneesh: It's a maintenance release, so we are just taking additional precautions 15:08:32 ... we don't need wide testing 15:08:35 tzviya: Thanks 15:08:38 ... Moving on 15:08:43 zakim, next item 15:08:43 agendum 2. "Next Steps for the "Future of EPUB" Survey" taken up [from Ralph] 15:08:48 ... Next item is the next steps of EPUB survey 15:08:59 Mateus++ 15:08:59 ... I hope everyone has had time to review the slide deck 15:09:01 Wendy++ 15:09:07 ... now we need to do something with it 15:09:12 ... we need to publicise this 15:09:17 Wendy++, Mateus++ 15:09:52 -> https://lists.w3.org/Archives/Member/member-publishing-sc/2020Apr/0000.html "EPUB Survey Results" [Wendy, 24-Apr] 15:10:02 scribe+ 15:10:08 Wendy: I'd like people to read my proposed blog post 15:10:19 George: does that post point to a slide deck? 15:10:40 Wendy: it can; I didn't include one as I'm not sure where to host it 15:10:59 Tzviya: it would be great to publish this soon 15:11:00 q+ 15:11:07 ack jeff__ 15:11:35 jeff__: Blog post is important, but in parallel we as a steering committee need to figure out how to consume what the community thinks 15:11:45 ... we can say this is input to the EPUB WG 15:11:55 q+ 15:12:01 ... is it input to the charter or is this input to the activity 15:12:19 ... not everything in this survey is not input to the charter, but to other groups 15:12:51 ... I think it would be useful for us or a smaller group to look at the results and determine what can be taken from them 15:12:55 q+ to suggest opening GH issues 15:12:55 q+ 15:13:00 ... make sure this lands somewhere 15:13:03 q? 15:13:05 ack bi 15:13:11 q+ 15:13:14 Bill_Kasdorf: I agree with Jeff 15:13:20 q+ 15:13:21 q+ 15:13:36 ... I wanted to remind folks that even before something gets into the WG, the CG should look at the implementation/incubation 15:13:52 +1 Bill 15:13:58 ... We should make sure this is systematic 15:14:08 ... prioritize the feedback 15:14:09 ack me 15:14:09 tzviya, you wanted to suggest opening GH issues 15:14:22 +1 to the CG taking up the bits of the survey that are about implementation/incubation work 15:14:36 tzviya: I was going to suggest that some of us should begin opening GH issues for the items in the survey 15:14:39 ... we need to break this down 15:14:46 ack ge 15:14:48 ... many of them will end up in the CG 15:14:57 George: +1 to everything that's been said 15:15:21 ... we should have contacts associated with the annoucnement of the results so people can contact them 15:15:39 ... regarding the issues, this would dictate a project/work plan 15:16:01 ... there's many things the CG and BG should look at, as well as the WG 15:16:26 ... it looks like putting together a project plan, in the form of issues, then we can label and organize it all into projects/sub-projects 15:16:26 ack dauwhe 15:16:29 ack dai 15:16:39 q+ 15:16:52 Daihei: Liisa and I discussed this, these results are something that should be make open and communicable 15:16:58 ... to the global community 15:17:07 ... the questionnaire was sent to many people 15:17:18 ... and many people wanted to continue to keep in touch 15:17:33 As of this point the attendees have been Daihei, ivan, george, wendyreid, Ralph, Avneesh, Tzviya, BillK, Bill_Kasdorf, jeff, garth 15:17:38 ... PBG will take the initiative to communicate on behalf of the Publishing Activity 15:18:03 ... we can take the feedback and then bring it to the BG and other groups 15:18:49 tzviya: Mateus and Wendy did a lot of work on the data compilation, and Wendy wrote the blog post, maybe we should start there 15:18:54 q? 15:19:08 Daihei: We appreciate their work, we can use it as a basis for our communications 15:19:24 s|my proposed blog post|-> https://lists.w3.org/Archives/Member/member-publishing-sc/2020Apr/att-0000/EPUB_Survey_Results.md "my proposed blog post" 15:19:36 I have made the request to generate https://www.w3.org/2020/05/01-pbgsc-minutes.html Ralph 15:19:43 ack iv 15:19:46 ... we want to make sure the BG is the group to communicate with 15:19:55 ivan: Minor additions, the charter as of today 15:20:20 ... it makes a reference to the original blog, we can add references to the survey results 15:21:03 ivan: I worry about confusing the messaging between all of the groups, the community does have it own repo where we can store the issues 15:21:07 ... for these specific issues 15:21:08 'ack Ralph 15:21:22 -> https://github.com/w3c/publ-bg Publishing BG GitHub repository 15:21:28 Ralph: One of those rare occasions where I have a different opinion from Ivan 15:21:34 ... the BG has a GH repo 15:22:19 ... and I think it makes sense to have the survey topics/discussion areas and classify which group should look at them 15:22:26 ... some cases will be clear and others won't 15:23:47 ... can we derive issues from the slides 15:23:54 wendyreid: Yes, but it will be time consuming 15:24:02 ack Bill_Kasdorf 15:24:12 tzviya: I think we can put everything in CG repo and farm them out, or in another and sort them out 15:24:16 Ralph, you wanted to comment on "the BG doesn't have a GitHub repo" 15:24:23 Bill_Kasdorf: I worry about the implementation of these features 15:24:30 ... with the CG anyone can be involved 15:24:30 -> https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/11KjkTzyuOeDLlCiAccQYSJ5J-vNHJ_s2U3r4ws1FPLA/edit#slide=id.p the survey slides themeselves 15:24:52 ... recruit people based on the issue 15:25:08 ... I spoke to Rick Johnson recently 15:25:27 I have made the request to generate https://www.w3.org/2020/05/01-pbgsc-minutes.html Ralph 15:25:35 ... want him to get into the CG and address specific issues 15:25:44 ... motivate people with specific problems 15:25:56 q? 15:26:02 +1 to Bill -- and the blog post can [does?] say that :) 15:26:21 tzviya: I think that we all have high hopes for where the CG is headeed 15:26:30 ... the topic at hand is what we do with the survey results 15:26:38 ... we all agree that we can turn them into issues 15:26:49 ... who else wants to volunteer to create GH issues with me 15:27:05 Daihei: Liisa and I can help 15:27:33 tzviya: I'm going to volunteer Mateus and Jeff X 15:27:56 I can take care of accessibility issues 15:27:56 ... hopefully the three of us can figure this out 15:28:07 I am swamped through May 15, but can help with accessibility issues. 15:28:08 ... we can give ourselves a month to work on this 15:28:16 q+ to discus labels 15:28:20 ack jeff__ 15:28:20 jeff__, you wanted to discus labels 15:28:36 jeff__: Perhaps to overstate the obvious, GH has great labels 15:28:46 ... to the extent we can label them, we should 15:28:57 ... it would help to organizing and putting things where they belong 15:29:16 ... we'll make more progress if the team makes some initial decisions on sorting and then we can discuss 15:29:29 tzviya: We'll also have to figure out which repo 15:29:42 q+ 15:29:47 ack dauwhe 15:29:50 ack dai 15:29:50 ... if we want to use the BG repo, we can discuss with Daihei and Liisa whether the BG wants to use GH 15:29:55 Daihei: I think it could be used 15:30:05 Perhaps labels would include task force assignments. 15:30:05 ... Liisa is putting together on the repo for the RS issues 15:30:16 ... we can discuss offline though 15:30:37 tzviya: Is this all we should do for now? 15:30:49 zakim, next item 15:30:49 agendum 3. "Brainstorming on a "Publishing@W3C Open Meeting"" taken up [from Ralph] 15:31:04 tzviya: We discussed having an "open" publishing meeting 15:31:11 ... blog posts are nice, but may not reach everyone 15:31:17 scribe- 15:31:17 ... we're in a period of big changes 15:31:19 [[ 15:31:20 The idea here is to hold a meeting to which all CG, BG, and WG 15:31:20 participants are explicitly invited. Probably a webinar-style 15:31:20 meeting. Perhaps open to others in the wider community who are 15:31:21 not (yet) participating in W3C in some way. The content could 15:31:21 expand on the 18 March blog post (or post(s) if there are more), 15:31:21 addressing questions and comments from the Survey results. 15:31:22 The purpose of this agendum is to look for consensus on the 15:31:22 utility of such a meeting, collect ideas on possible content, 15:31:22 and (presuming consensus to proceed), get consensus on a 15:31:23 schedule and solicit volunteers for a Planning and Program Committee. 15:31:23 ]] 15:31:51 tzviya: Can we establish a community and how should we hold this meeting 15:31:55 q+ 15:31:56 q+ to provide some ideas 15:32:01 scribe+ 15:32:13 ack je 15:32:13 jeff__, you wanted to provide some ideas 15:32:21 q+ je 15:32:21 Wendy: I like the idea a lot 15:32:26 ... I'll happily help 15:32:36 ack je 15:32:37 jeff__: I think it's a great idea 15:32:42 ... don't know if an hour will be enough 15:33:01 ... the place to start would be acknowledging the community for their contributions to the survey 15:33:12 ... I don't know how comprehensive we want to be 15:33:29 q+ to avoid webinar-weary, too long 15:33:29 ... a basic overview of the result would be good 15:33:45 ... explain how we are cosuming it and the effort to put it into action 15:33:50 q+ 15:33:51 ... WG, BG, CG ets 15:34:07 ... another way to get further interest, if we want to ask them to provide inputs 15:34:29 ... its one thing to just attend and learn things, but we would love more input or feedback directly from people 15:34:34 ... community participation 15:34:39 ack tz 15:34:39 tzviya, you wanted to avoid webinar-weary, too long 15:34:50 tzviya: I've been hearing about people getting weary of webinars 15:34:58 ... I'm concerned about making it too long 15:35:00 ack avn 15:35:14 Avneesh: The communication instrument depends on the objective 15:35:35 ... if we are looking to communicate our goals, a webinar is fine, but if we want a discussion we might want something different 15:35:50 ... posting the charter didn't get a lot of input, but conference calls did 15:36:05 q+ 15:36:05 ... if we want feedback, then we should hold some short calls 15:36:15 ack Ralph 15:36:15 Ralph, you wanted to comment on webinar vs. discussion 15:36:18 ... a webinar is appropriate if we're just doing a review 15:36:32 Ralph: Avneesh, do you have an opinion on what we should do? 15:36:46 Avneesh: The EPUB3 charter is known and people know about it 15:36:55 ... if we get into detailed discussions, it could delayt hings 15:37:01 regrets+ Cristina, Yoshii-san 15:37:02 ... are we comfortable with that 15:37:10 ... if we want that feedback ,then let's do it 15:37:17 Ralph: Thanks, I had similar thoughts 15:37:29 ... strong +1 to Jeff about using the results 15:37:39 ... we use that as the basis for whatever we do 15:37:41 q+ to comment on Avneesh's comments 15:38:04 ... to that end it seems to me that there were some misunderstandings about EPUB3 and the charter direction 15:38:29 ... my thought was a webinar that focuses on that feedback and addresses the misconceptions 15:38:48 q+ 15:38:49 present+ 15:39:03 ... people are probably tired of long webinars, but an informative one would be good 15:39:08 ack bi 15:39:12 ... we don't want to open charter discussions 15:39:39 Bill_Kasdorf: Back to the original ask, I like the idea of a meeting people can participate in 15:39:50 ... it's an unfortunately opportune time, everyone is on zoom 15:39:57 ... just call in and we can chat 15:40:18 q+ 15:40:21 ... preceding that, having an informational webinar to clear things up and provide information 15:40:29 ... then follow up with a discussion 15:40:44 tzviya: Are you suggesting having 2 sessions 15:41:06 Bill_Kasdorf: Yes, it's hard to get people to read things, but here's a 30-minute session on this topic and then we can discuss 15:41:22 ... to Jeff's point, we got great response, share it 15:41:32 ack je 15:41:32 jeff__, you wanted to comment on Avneesh's comments 15:41:50 jeff__: Ralph and Avneesh mentioned what the goals are 15:42:20 ... I think that the SC meeting in Feb, we concluded that there's enough in the survey to move ahead with EPUB3 enhancements 15:42:26 ... at a high level that won't change 15:42:37 ... that alone is enough to move forward 15:42:49 ... for me it's more the next level, we have all of this input 15:43:05 ... we have things to look at for the CG, new features for EPUB 3.x 15:43:11 ... some business ideas for the BG 15:43:19 +1 to jeff__ 15:43:20 ... let's have a conversation about that 15:43:36 ... it lets us hear the emotion and everything from the community 15:43:38 ack av 15:43:38 q+ 15:43:46 Avneesh: Thanks Jeff, after hearing the other comments 15:44:02 ... we could combine the approaches 15:44:12 ... we should anchor this around the WG 15:44:40 ... there's questions about backward compatibility, new features, we should build the confidence 15:44:47 ... review what the WG will do 15:45:02 ... communicate the goals, encourage people to join the CG 15:45:04 q? 15:45:20 q- 15:45:29 ... in the CG we can plan what the group should do with the interesting feedback 15:45:38 ... move all of discussion to the CG 15:45:39 ack George 15:45:53 q? 15:46:06 George: Totally agree with Avneesh, logistically the CG, it's hard to have a zoom meeting with 30+ people 15:46:10 ... it gets confusing 15:46:30 ... maybe if we could sort the issues that come to the CG and look at assigning them to task forces, then the task forces could meet 15:46:42 ... not just limited to the CG 15:46:59 ... if you are interested in this topic, broadcast that more broadly to the community 15:47:03 ack ra 15:47:03 Ralph, you wanted to comment on two communities 15:47:25 Ralph: Thinking on Avneesh's comments different purposes and styles of communication 15:47:32 ... maybe the one open meeting is actually 2 meetings 15:47:46 ... one is an information sharing meeting, how we are moving forwrd, what we are working on 15:47:56 ... the other is a more traditional CG teleconference 15:48:03 ... but open it more broadly 15:48:15 q+ 15:48:19 ... make sure everyone understands the plans and we provide a forum for discussion 15:48:40 ack Bill_Kasdorf 15:48:43 ... maybe we need different meetings for different objectives 15:49:06 Bill_Kasdorf: This meeting is for participants in the WG, BG, and CG 15:49:17 ... how many people is that? Is that the audience we want? 15:49:22 ... is our number 30 or 100 15:49:51 tzviya: So this idea is fairly new, haven't thought of the guest list, I thought it should be open to everyone, not just members 15:49:59 ... the membership doesn't have a count 15:50:03 ... it's a large number 15:50:11 ... we don't know how many would attend 15:50:21 ... it can be unwieldy 15:50:45 ... for this to be successful we'd need an informative section, and then a discussion ,with someone moderating the question 15:50:51 ... we would need to have a "host" 15:51:03 ... we would need to sort out those logistics 15:51:04 the CG shows 35 individual participants 15:51:14 ... my initial thought would be presenting the goals 15:51:19 ... including the survey results 15:51:31 ... establishing trust with the community 15:51:41 ... a webinar is probably the best way to do it 15:51:44 ... if executed well 15:51:54 ... we also need to take our time 15:52:10 ... no rush, none of the groups are fully formed, and we are in a lull, but so is everyone else 15:52:18 the BG shows 66 individual participants 15:52:19 ... I don't want to rush into this if we don't have to 15:52:29 ... we don't need to make these decisions today either 15:52:39 ... Wendy and I can put together a framework for this 15:52:45 ... and we'll come back in 2 weeks 15:52:49 ... AOB? 15:53:05 George: Everyone saw Apple's donation? 15:53:15 *collective yay!* 15:54:07 garth: tzviya often steps forward to do these things, is maybe doing a few smaller sessions to prove if this will benefit 15:54:29 ... is there a way to complete some of the initial issues and then do the remainder 15:54:44 ... I want to see work that gets done and fosters reulsts and saves work for Tzviya 15:54:51 ... gives the CG something to do 15:55:03 ... having a list of 150 issues is overwhelming 15:55:12 ack ra 15:55:15 ... give them a select list of deliverables 15:55:19 Ralph: Important point 15:55:29 ... I had been thinking moreabout the conversation 15:55:36 ... encourage the conversation via issues 15:55:38 +1 to high priority issues brought forward 15:55:53 ... no reason to burden a group with 100 topics unless they're clearly interested 15:56:01 tzviya: Thanks Garth, that's a good point 15:56:11 ivan: Get all your friends to comment on the charter 15:56:15 ... we need more feedback 15:56:18 ... even thumbs up 15:56:38 tzviya: Kudos to Garth for the thumbs up! 15:56:53 garth: have a good weekend folks! 15:59:26 zakim, end meeting 15:59:26 As of this point the attendees have been Daihei, ivan, george, wendyreid, Ralph, Avneesh, Tzviya, BillK, Bill_Kasdorf, jeff, garth, dauwhe 15:59:28 RRSAgent, please draft minutes v2 15:59:28 I have made the request to generate https://www.w3.org/2020/05/01-pbgsc-minutes.html Zakim 15:59:31 I am happy to have been of service, Ralph; please remember to excuse RRSAgent. Goodbye 15:59:35 Zakim has left #pbgsc 16:13:36 rrsagent, bye 16:13:36 I see no action items