Re: Let's introduce ourselves

Hello everyone:

I am Assistant Professor of Multimedia Design at Nashville State Community College in Nashville TN. I teach digital content creation, including front-end coding. I know that HTML, XML, CSS is the underlying technology of ePub.. Since my students are content creators, not programmers, I am introducing them to the idea of self-publishing. I am a member of the Alliance for Independent Authors ( https://www.allianceindependentauthors.org/ ) .  Having attending Digital Book World several times (I�m friends with Bradley Metrock), I know there are markets for physical books, eBooks, audio books, and the emerging interactive audio, e.g. Alexa. I intend on retiring from full-time teaching in the next couple of years. Then I will move into self-publishing to supplement retirement.

I know that standards are developed by people that �show up� so I began investigating how individuals can get involved in ePub. Since I�m a content creator and eLearning Developer part of my desire is to do a deeper dive in understanding how to create ePub documents so I�m not dependent on an authoring programs. Being able to wrangle the code always gives us more control. That investigation lead me to discussion groups and eventually to this group. I am not a mover and shaker in this community. I am a creator in the trenches. But I�ve been around long enough to have lived through the browser wars. I see the same thing happening in the eBook community with different venders wanting to create their own platform (I�m looking at you Amazon -- .mobi).

There are members here far more adept in the understandings of the technology than I am. My goal is first to learn the technology, use it, build a second career, teach others, and if I notice a limitation, have a voice in pushing it forward. I�m glad to be part of the community and hope I can contribute in some way.


Best regards,

Dale

Dale R Rogers, M.Ed, CIW
Instructional Designer, eLearning Developer
Assistant Professor
Web and Interactive Multimedia Design
Nashville State Community College
College: dale.rogers@nscc.edu<mailto:dale.rogers@nscc.edu>
Personal: dale@dalerogers.me<mailto:dale@dalerogers.me>
Web: dalerogers.me<https://dalerogers.me/>



From: Zheng Xu <zxu@gardenia-corp.com>
Date: Tuesday, March 15, 2022 at 10:43 AM
To: W3C EPUB 3 Community Group <public-epub3@w3.org>
Subject: Let's introduce ourselves
Hi folks

Some of you might have noticed that I started to ask new joined members to introduce themselves shortly.

Actually I think maybe it's also a good time to introduce ourselves to new members and each other as well since the CG started to be active during covid and I think a lot of us did not know each other and might have missed some of the PCG meetings (which is totally fine).

Ok, I will run a quick introduction of myself.

My name is Zheng Xu. I am located in Ottawa (Canada) and founder of Gardenia Corp (a digital reading system firm).
I joined PCG because I hope I could help with prototyping new reading experiences, test new concepts and most importantly - make them into a real product or spec to benefit digital book readers.


Cheers,
Zheng