IRC log of pbgsc on 2022-06-10

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Meeting: Publishing Steering Committee
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agenda: https://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-publishing-sc/2022Jun/0002.html
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present+
15:00:11 [Ralph]
-> https://www.w3.org/2022/04/08-pbgsc-minutes.html previous 8 April
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present+ wolfgang
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present+
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present+
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present+
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present+ Wolfgang, Tzviya, Liisa, WendyReid, Zheng, George, Avneesh
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scribe+
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agenda+ Quick updates around the table
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agenda+ Outcomes from the 8 June WG/CG joint meeting
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agenda+ Discussion/Planning for "Web Digital Publishing futures" TPAC session
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agenda+ EPUB 3 Titles for use as references [George]
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zakim, next item
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agendum 1 -- Quick updates around the table -- taken up [from Ralph]
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Dave: EPUB 3 is in CR!!
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Wendy: Yay!
15:04:46 [Ralph]
Dave: we're working on security & privacy stuff now, after an academic paper was published
15:04:56 [Ralph]
... we invited the author of that paper to our WG meeting last week
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Tzviya: it was really intersting
15:05:33 [Ralph]
... any announcement for WAI? just a blog post?
15:05:58 [Ralph]
Wendy: I fixed the tags; adding the ebook tag
15:06:39 [Ralph]
Ralph: congratulations to the WG; the testing work is a huge contribution
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Ivan: and it's not yet done; we need more testers to both write and run tests
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... there's documentation on how to do this
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... and also a slack channel
15:07:27 [wendyreid]
https://github.com/w3c/epub-tests
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present+ Bill_Kasdorf
15:07:43 [Ralph]
Liisa: the BG has been struggling to find time to meet
15:07:54 [Ralph]
... the co-chairs have been traveling a lot
15:08:13 [Ralph]
... and trying to figure out what to communicate w.r.t. EAA
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... we're trying to get together the education community thing we had talked about
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... slow going at the moment
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... we are trying to get a meeting before the end of June
15:11:18 [Ralph]
Tzviya: maybe we can try a joint meeting in the BG timeslot
15:11:23 [Ralph]
... could be on use cases
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Liisa: I'd love to have a joint WG meeting to talk about FXL
15:12:23 [Ralph]
... piracy is also big on people's minds; we're hearing that people are spending a lot of time on that
15:12:35 [Ralph]
Wendy: piracy is a hard problem
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Liisa: there could be some idea sharing; there are things that can be done
15:13:06 [Ralph]
Tzviya: sounds like a joint meeting with the CG
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<ralph> +1
15:13:26 [wendyreid]
q+
15:13:30 [Ralph]
Liisa: I'll reach out to the CG and see if we can schedule a joint session
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q-
15:13:47 [Ralph]
Zheng: the CG had a joint meeting with the WG
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... the topic naturally narrowed down to education and annotation
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... we also discussed an approach to how the CG can work with the WG to provide more use cases
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... and start to discover more practice
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... the CG has a lot of work to do
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... we look forward to a joint meeting with the BG
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... a lot of the CG is interested in FXL
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... feel free to reach out to us via the CG mailing list
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... we encourage peopel to throw questions in there
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... in terms of piracy, I have some ideas there too
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Wolfgang: we started a TF lead by Paul Belfante to collect use cases for education
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... from people interested in education publishing
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Wendy: a joint meeting with the FXL TF might be productive
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present+
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... we're trying to work on best practice documentation
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... it would be very helpful to know what best practice ideas would you like documented
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zakim, next item
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agendum 2 -- Outcomes from the 8 June WG/CG joint meeting -- taken up [from Ralph]
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zakim, close this item
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agendum 2 closed
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I see 2 items remaining on the agenda; the next one is
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3. Discussion/Planning for "Web Digital Publishing futures" TPAC session [from Ralph]
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zakim, next item
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agendum 3 -- Discussion/Planning for "Web Digital Publishing futures" TPAC session -- taken up [from Ralph]
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-> https://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-publishing-sc/2022May/0001.html Wendy's initial proposal
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Wendy: we don't yet have a plan for what work needs to be done after the current WG ends
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... I thought it would be a good idea to hold something at TPAC to find out what people from the publishing industry need in the next generation of standards
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... I'm being intentionally vague; the idea is to come with problems and not solutions
15:18:50 [tzviya]
q+ to talk brainstorm
15:19:07 [Ralph]
... focus on what problems people have now, what are their requirements for a digital publishing standard
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... involve publishers from all parts of publishing, including the various parts of trade publishing
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... include tool vendors, retailers, ...
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... make sure we include everybody and brainstorm together
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... whatever we do next should be cognizant of the various parts of the industry
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... talk about what people hope to get from the next generation of standards
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q+
15:20:16 [Ralph]
... and propose a charter that can get multi-stakeholder support
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ack tz
15:20:20 [Zakim]
tzviya, you wanted to talk brainstorm
15:20:25 [Ralph]
... we should be sending invitations very soon
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Tzviya: we're envisioning a whiteboarding session in an accessible way
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... thinking back to how IDPF did things when we came to the close of specification work
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... what problems do we have with this spec?
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... a brain dump; we won't be able to work on everything everyone suggests
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... we want to get an idea of what people want though we may only work on 1 or 2 of them
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ack Bill_Kasdorf
15:22:04 [Ralph]
... we're trying to get the idea of what people's problems are and what we can come to consensus to work on
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Bill: I love the idea
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... to get an appropriate cross-section of people, I'm very glad we're considering hybrid
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... it's an excellent recruiting opportunity
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Tzviya: the invitations cannot be "so we want you to join W3C"
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Bill: no; I'd draft specific people to join the conversation
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... I have a lot of contacts with people in various parts of publishing who might come to the discussion
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... I can identify good people in a variety of sectors
15:24:13 [tzviya]
ack Ralph
15:24:20 [Ralph]
Ralph: +1 to make this as broad
15:24:34 [liisamk]
+1 to the idea and to a broad conversation
15:24:52 [tzviya]
q+ to ask about some logistics
15:25:50 [wolfgang]
+1 to Wendy's idea to elicit more feedback from the whole range of the publishing business
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q+
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ack me
15:26:15 [Zakim]
tzviya, you wanted to ask about some logistics
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ack wendyreid
15:26:23 [Ralph]
Tzviya: are we thinking 2 hours, 4 hours, 40 people? 100 People?
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Wendy: 8 hours is too much; I'm thinking 2-4 hours
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... it depends on the number of people and how many might be remote
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... remote participation will add time
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q+
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... maybe an introductory whiteboarding session where people dump everything they can think of, then a break, then group the ideas into concepts
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ack liisamk
15:28:00 [Ralph]
... there will be a lot of ideas that we'll have to distill
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Liisa: I'd like to find a way to make the break useful to the remote participants
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... so it's not biased to the in-person attendees
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q+
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<ralph> very strong +1 to engaging the remote participants
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Tzviya: maybe we can do Zoom breakouts?
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Wendy: I'm happy to facilitate and will lean on colleagues to help
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ack wolfgang
15:29:09 [AvneeshSingh]
q+
15:29:15 [Ralph]
Wolfgang: how will we deal with the timezone difference?
15:29:41 [Bill_Kasdorf]
One of the people I would ask to join is in Estonia.
15:30:07 [tzviya]
q+ cristina
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q+ to talk about next steps
15:30:58 [Ralph]
... it's nine hours difference between Vancouver and Europe
15:31:02 [tzviya]
ack AvneeshSingh
15:31:25 [Ralph]
Avneesh: I fear putting all eggs in one basket and the uncertainties of what might happen in September
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... Vancouver is challenging w.r.t. timezones
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... if Bill has an idea of who to contact already, let's start the public engagement sessions before TPAC so we're not completely dependent on TPAC
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... that would also help solve the timezone issues
15:32:22 [cristina_]
present+
15:32:24 [Ralph]
... one or two calls starting in July
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q+
15:32:33 [Ralph]
... collect ideas and start to shape them before TPAC
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ack cristina_
15:32:39 [Ralph]
<Ralph> +1 to Avneesh as well
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ack cristina
15:33:04 [Ralph]
Cristina: it makes sense to duplicate sessions and define some well-structured topics that can be done twice
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... similar to a PBG meeting
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... allow people to participate in a more comfortable way
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... define in the Zoom room(s) specific topic to discuss
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Tzviya: good points that we're putting too much value on the f2f meeting
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... people get excited about brainstorming together
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... but I like Avneesh' suggestion to start before TPAC
15:34:09 [liisamk]
q+
15:34:19 [Ralph]
... maybe Wendy and I can start a document on what we're looking for
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... and maybe hold one session in July at an Asia-friendly time
15:34:47 [Ralph]
... perhaps another in August before TPAC
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q+
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ack tz
15:34:55 [Zakim]
tzviya, you wanted to talk about next steps
15:34:58 [tzviya]
avk liisamk
15:35:02 [Ralph]
Cristina: I was thinking about areas of discussion, not necessarily specific topics
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Liisa: we could also use some of the PBG time this summer to start the conversation and get people thinking about gathering ideas
15:35:19 [tzviya]
ack GeorgeK
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q+
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ack liisamk
15:35:36 [Ralph]
George: I like Avneesh' idea; could we have rotating chairs of the smaller meetings?
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... different people attract others with different ideas
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... not one person running all of them
15:36:12 [tzviya]
ack Bill_Kasdorf
15:36:38 [Ralph]
Bill: the preliminary meetings are a great idea, but should not be solely for the participants of the current groups
15:37:05 [Ralph]
... most of the people I would invite are from other communities
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... and not necessarily candidates to join any of these groups
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Tzviya: Wendy and I will write a draft
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... the sessions will be open to anyone
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./me q+
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ack Ralph
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scribe+
15:38:26 [wendyreid]
Ralph: For event planning, we need some kind of estimate of what to ask for TPAC planning
15:39:07 [wendyreid]
... we might ask for no more than 2-2hour sessions for 20-25 people, if it's WG people plus others, the largest room is for 50 people
15:39:17 [wendyreid]
... if you want me to put in a bid for the largest room, I can try
15:39:46 [Ralph]
Tzviya: if we're going to have two 1-1.5 hour sessions with a break inbetween, it would be nice to have that in one room
15:39:54 [Ralph]
... hard to know how many might attend
15:40:09 [Ralph]
... if it's the same day as the EPUB WG meeting, then I'd expect all of them to attend
15:40:27 [Bill_Kasdorf]
q+
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q+
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ack Bill_Kasdorf
15:41:03 [Ralph]
Bill: the kinds of people I'd invite would be mostly remote
15:41:07 [tzviya]
ack AvneeshSingh
15:41:10 [Ralph]
Avneesh: +1
15:42:06 [Ralph]
Ralph: I was thinking that some of the people we'd like to participate will already be there for other TPAC meetings
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Wendy: the same space we've asked for the WG is probably sufficient
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... maybe Tuesday morning as the WG is meeting in the afternoon
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... that would accomodate Europe
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zakim, next item
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agendum 4 -- EPUB 3 Titles for use as references -- taken up [from George]
15:43:26 [Ralph]
-> https://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-publishing-sc/2022Jun/0000.html EPUB 3 titles for use in marketing and testing
15:43:47 [Ralph]
George: I was in a call on Monday talking about K12 and we wanted to point to some example EPUB documents
15:44:07 [Ralph]
... someone suggested some titles
15:44:21 [dauwhe]
https://github.com/IDPF/epub3-samples
15:44:24 [Ralph]
... I've had the experience of large ebooks that crash some reading systems
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... I was thinking about books that stress reading systems, with a range of content
15:44:58 [Ralph]
... the industry needs such a place where they can find content they can use for testing, demonstration, and testing
15:45:12 [Ralph]
Ivan: the EPUB tests are not the right thing for this
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q+
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q+
15:45:27 [Ralph]
George: right; this is a CG thing where we build out a set of books people can use
15:45:33 [tzviya]
ack wendyreid
15:45:42 [Ralph]
Tzviya: perhaps take a look at the old epub sample library
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s/library/library and update the files
15:46:09 [Ralph]
Wendy: what parameters are we trying to test? large books? what's "large"? thousands of chapters in individual files or in one file?
15:46:19 [Bill_Kasdorf]
q+
15:46:26 [Ralph]
... write the test cases; are videos remote or embedded? audio remote or embedded?
15:46:38 [Ralph]
George: I have an immediate need
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... I think we could work with standardebook.org
15:47:02 [Ralph]
... make sure their book is up to snuff and push fixes
15:47:13 [tzviya]
ack dauwhe
15:47:15 [Ralph]
... if we want to do something separate in the CG, I think that would be interesting
15:47:26 [Ralph]
Dave: there is the EPUB3 sample repository ^^
15:47:32 [Ralph]
... with existing infrastructure
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... it probably has an old epubcheck
15:48:09 [Ralph]
Zheng: I like the idea to have more EPUBs for demonstration, testing, and marketing
15:48:24 [Ralph]
... I'd like to find more examples to demonstrate my platform
15:48:53 [Ralph]
... I like the idea
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... we should create something everyone can use
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George: can the CG set up the infrastructure? that would be great
15:49:28 [Ralph]
... we can mark things as to when they are updated
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... and let people contribute
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q?
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Tzviya: who runs standardebook.org?
15:49:52 [tzviya]
ack ra
15:49:54 [Ralph]
Wendy: Alex K@@
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s/K@@/Cabal/
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ack Bill_Kasdorf
15:51:09 [Ralph]
Ralph: I'm happy to assist in creating the backing store for this
15:51:21 [Ralph]
Bill: it's a good idea; there are two use cases
15:51:26 [Ralph]
... 1. testing
15:51:34 [Ralph]
... 2. good examples of EPUB
15:51:43 [Ralph]
... we're talking about both, right?
15:51:54 [Ralph]
George: and a 3rd; interesting content that will turn people on
15:52:07 [Ralph]
Bill: yeah; "did you know you could do this with EPUB?"
15:52:33 [Ralph]
Tzviya: something good for the CG to take up and anyone can contribute content
15:52:52 [Ralph]
... the books in the repository should be EPUB 3.1 and should be easy to update
15:53:03 [Ralph]
... there's a lot of demonstration of MathML that we might not want to show off yet
15:53:31 [Ralph]
topic: Next meeting
15:53:46 [Ralph]
Tzviya: I can't join you on 8 July
15:53:56 [Ralph]
Liisa: how about 15 July?
15:54:15 [Ralph]
Tzviya, Wendy: the 15th works better for me
15:54:26 [Ralph]
action: Ralph (re)schedule the July SC meeting for 15 July
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Ivan: likely regrets
15:54:36 [Ralph]
[adjourned]
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zakim, end meeting
15:54:48 [Zakim]
As of this point the attendees have been dauwhe, wolfgang, AvneeshSingh, liisamk, Ralph, Tzviya, WendyReid, Zheng, George, Bill_Kasdorf, cristina_
15:54:50 [Zakim]
RRSAgent, please draft minutes v2
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I have made the request to generate https://www.w3.org/2022/06/10-pbgsc-minutes.html Zakim
15:54:53 [Zakim]
I am happy to have been of service, Ralph; please remember to excuse RRSAgent. Goodbye
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16:13:51 [Ralph]
chair: Tzviya
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present+ Ivan
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action: Tzviya and Wendy write a draft TPAC publishing brainstorming session
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rrsagent, bye
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I see 2 open action items saved in https://www.w3.org/2022/06/10-pbgsc-actions.rdf :
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ACTION: Ralph (re)schedule the July SC meeting for 15 July [1]
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recorded in https://www.w3.org/2022/06/10-pbgsc-irc#T15-54-26
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ACTION: Tzviya and Wendy write a draft TPAC publishing brainstorming session [2]
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recorded in https://www.w3.org/2022/06/10-pbgsc-irc#T18-01-40