Dear Fellow IDPF Members,

I herby submit my nomination for election to the IDPF Board of Directors.

For 20 years I have run a typesetting company (www.river-valley.com) built around free software and open specifications. We both use free software for our services, and write and distribute free software for others to use. It is natural for us to support ePub as the main format for eBooks. Our typesetting service includes the 100% automatic generation of PDF from complex XML with MathML. We are now adapting this technology to eBooks by creating a software that will render the most complex ePub, including MathML. Our aim is to have eBook software that reflows mathematical content, and we believe the only way to achieve this is to have MathML.

I see my role within IDPF as promoting the correct tagging of complex material like mathematics. In addition I would like to promote eBook readers that can render and reformat complex material on the fly. I hope to be elected to the board and to be effective in that role.

 Bio

Kaveh Bazargan obtained a PhD in Display Holography from the Physics Department of Imperial College, in 1986. He was inventor and patent holder for the first desktop viewer for holograms. He was the first user of the TeX typesetting program in the College. In 1988 he set up Focal Image Ltd (now trading as River Valley Technologies) offering a typesetting service to mathematical publishers. The company teamed up with an Indian group in 1996, and now employs 140 staff. The company is a fully validated Elsevier supplier.

Sincerely

Kaveh Bazargan

Director

River Valley Technologies