With communication ramping up as IDPF continues to progress on the plan to combine with W3C by January 2017 (per IDPF membership approval in November, 2016), and to help facilitate a smooth transition, we are creating a method for more effective communication with and among our members. NOTE: It is assumed that this group will be short-lived, and superseded by W3C communication means after the combination (e.g. a mailing list for the planned W3C Publishing Business Group).

This Google Group is an email- and Web-based means for authorized representatives of IDPF Member organizations to communicate with each other and with IDPF leadership about IDPF-wide issues. All IDPF Primary Representatives are automatically invited to participate, and Primary Representatives may request that additional affiliated individuals be added to the group.

Individual email addresses are masked by default. Only group members can send emails to the group, and the archive of emails is private to group members. Certain “member only” documents may be shared privately with this list by IDPF leadership. Formal announcements, such as of votes, will continue to be made via direct emails to Primary Representatives, not all of whom are expected to necessarily join this group, but such announcements will routinely be copied to this group.

This list is only for communication about matters relating to IDPF organization and membership issues. No commercial communications or event announcements olease (epubzone.org welcomes event announcements, includes a list of solutions, and can feature product announcements and case studies when they are of general interest to the EPUB community). Discussion about EPUB issues should take place elsewhere such as the epub-working-group Google Group or EPUB discussion forums.

You can create and read posts via the Web interface or email. Email to: idpf-members@googlegroups.com to create a new post.