Attendees

Laurent Le Meur (EDRLab), Kate Davey (BiblioVault / the University of Chicago Press), Risa Wolf (NYPL), Robert Cartolano (Columbia University), Hadrien Gardeur (De Marque)

Agenda

  • Treasurer’s Report
  • Membership
  • Elections
  • Frankfurt Book Fair
  • Member Web Conference
  • Ongoing Projects

Treasurer’s Report

Discussed current nonprofit status & steps to reinstate

  • Kate needs another Board member to move this forward
  • Rob volunteers to work with Kate
  • Accepted unanimously

Membership

Discussion of membership status

  • Board identified 2 members not in good standing and 1 member who has declined membership for this coming year
  • Proposal that a reminder will be sent to members immediately
  • Proposal seconded and accepted unanimously

Elections

Discussed open seats and election process, immediately for 2 members, class A and class C, plus a possible 3rd slot for class B

  • Agreed to send an email to members in good standing to solicit candidates
  • 3 weeks to submit one’s candidacy
  • Proposal to send immediately, seconded and accepted unanimously
  • Proposal to wait for candidate list before determining status of 3rd seat, seconded and accepted unanimously

Frankfurt Book Fair

Discussion of whether we should sponsor

  • Proposal to support
  • Proposal seconded and accepted unanimously

Member Web Conference

Discussion of possible short member web conference (2-3 hrs) to inform interested parties of our progress and products

  • Proposal to create web conference after elections
  • Proposal to do two to support Asia-Pacific time zones
  • Both proposals seconded and accepted unanimously

Ongoing Projects

Updates provided on technology progress, informational only

  • Outline progress on Readium Web and Readium CSS v2
  • Outline progress on Readium Mobile toolkits
  • Announcement of new initiatives:
  • Readium Speech
  • Readium Playground
  • Readium Annotations
  • Subscription support for LCP license providers
  • Divina (Readium Web Publications for Comics/Manga/Webtoons) as an ISO standard for webtoons
  • OPDS (already supported by the Readium toolkits) as an ISO standard.

Other Business

Discussion of grant initiatives, no proposals

Business Completed. Adjourned