2010-05-05 Conference Call

Time: 19:00 UTC, 12:00 Los Angeles, 13:00 Denver, 15:00 New York, 20:00 London, 21:00 Zurich, 04:00 Tokyo next day, 06:00 Sydney next day
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1. Minutes, Recording, and Scribe

The Agenda & Minutes is a single node in the EPUB Maintenance wiki. The scribe will insert the minutes into the agenda. Working group members may contribute to the minutes, make corrections etc. Essentially minutes will be available shortly after the call.

Recording will be available for calls: use the same dial in and pin. *3 followed by the file name, yymmdd (100505)

Reminder: Catherine Zekri will record the call separately for her research. For a Summary of Research & Information to Participants see her web page ebooks-and-society.

Minutes:

Scribe for the day: Michael Smith – IDPF

2. Present: xx Participants

1. George Kerscher – DAISY Consortium
2. Tracey Menzies - HarperCollins
3. Daihei Shiohama - Voyager Japan
4. Keith Fahlgren - Threepress
5.  MURATA Makoto - JEPA

Regrets:

1. Paul Norton – Invited Expert

3 2.0.01 now in public comment

After public comments 7 day review is over, we will ask Bboard to approve.

Minutes:

• Expect to have Board approve within the week
• Two comments have been received
  • Makoto commented on his issue:
    I propose to replace "required" in
    "To aid Reading Systems in implementing consistent searching and sorting behavior
    it is required that Unicode Normalization Form C (NFC) be used (See
    http://www.w3.org/TR/charmod-norm/). "

    by "recommended" at least.

    Reason:  Human names in the Japanese language will be modified by NFC.

  • Suggestion made to differ this issue to EPUB 2.1 version. This will be treated as a new issue in 2.1 for Future  Consideration.
• George asked if any other issues regarding specs. No further issues were raised.
   

4 Conformance and samples

1. What is the use case of the conformance suite?
   1. We intend to post a suite of conforming documents where people can go to see if thheir reading systems conform or fail.
   2. We are not doing conformance testing at this time.
      1. Was discussion at last board call for EPUB logo to be more for raising awareness of EPUB. (Not as EPUB Confirmation of Conformance)
2. How will it be communicated and promoted?
   1.  IDPF Site will be one form of communicaton
   2.  
3. conformance repository, Google Code or IDPF site
   1.  
4. License to use the content, including W3C
   1.  
5. Collecting more samples
   1.  
6. encourage the review and enhancement of documents that Garth has produced. They may help an implemnter to implement system.
   1. Value to begin collecting a set of EPUB files for public record
   2. Need to provide positive and negative examples on site. Also EPUBs that are expected to be conformant may act in a suprising way.
   3. Suggestion made to potentially have refreence implementation
   4.  Suggestion to have more warnings published with epubcheck to raise awareness of a potential issue
   5. Possibly add more tests and recommnendations to epubcheck
7. Two things to be publicly avialable
   1. Confromance Test
   2. Area to view samples
      1. Maintenancce WG credentials to login and upload Sample
      2. Everyone is free to put more samples on Maintenance WG site
         1. will need to be able to collect comments on this
         2. New site will have ability to add community comments
8. KF: Wants to enusre have tracking and version controls
9. Tracy (Harper): Couple of questions regarding creating EPUB through InDesign.
10. Goal to post link and instructions how to post a link for testing/ conformance on site.

Minutes: