Meeting was called to order at approximately 5pm US EDT, 6 November 2006
by Norm Jacobs (Chair, Sun).
Attendees
Norm Jacobs (Sun) - FSG/OP Steering Committee Chair
Till Kamppeter (FSG)
Ira McDonald (High North) - Acting Secretary
Osamu Mihara (Fuji Xerox)
Glen Petrie (Epson)
Keisho Shida (Canon)
Yasumasa Toratani (Canon)
(1) Results of FSG/OP Printing Summit in Lexington
- No distribution, application, or toolkit people attended
- No PDF, Ghostscript, and CUPS people attended
- SC concensus - too much near-term focus on LSB 3.2
- Glen Petrie - need firm agenda next year several months early
(2) Standards process for FSG/OP PDAPI/1.0 (aka OPVP)
- SC concensus - send out for 30-day 'Public Review'
- ACTION - FSG/OP Japan & Ira - write release request (see JTAPI)
- ACTION - Ira - send to printing stds groups (FSG/PWG/JDF/etc)
- SC concensus to appove at last 2006 teleconference, if possible
- ACTION - SC - discuss approval at last 2006 meeting (see below)
(3) Schedule for 2007 for Vector Driver (PDAPI, aka OPVP)
- Completion of new PDAPI spec revision to add Text and Font APIs
- Completion of new PDAPI prototype or reference implementation
- ACTION - FSG/OP Japan - discuss later this week
(4) Schedule for 2007 for Print Channel Manager (PCMAPI)
- Completion of draft PCMAPI spec
- Completion of draft PCMAPI prototype or reference implementation
- ACTION - FSG/OP Japan - discuss later this week
(5) Schedule for 2007 Status Monitoring (SMAPI)
- Completion of new SMAPI spec revision to use PCMAPI
- Completion of new SMAPI prototype or reference implementation
- ACTION - FSG/OP Japan - discuss later this week
(6) Selection of 2007 FSG/OP Chair - Norm is retiring
- Discussion - Ira is only new chair volunteer to date
- ACTION - Norm - send ballot and nominate Ira to SC mailing list
- Does FSG have a process for chair selection? - Shida-san
- ACTION - Ira - ask Jim Zemlin (FSG CEO)
- Discussion on teleconference providers to 2007
- ACTION - Norm and Ira - check on Sun or other sponsors
(7) 2007 Roadmap for FSG/OP Project - future directions discussion
- 2007 Draft Roadmap - milestones in months or quarters
- ACTION - Japan FSG/OP - Japan draft to SC by 30 November 2006
- ACTION - Ira - US/Europe draft to SC by 30 November 2006
- 2007 Final Roadmap - milestones in months or quarters
- ACTION - SC - Approve roadmap at SC meeting on 8/9 January 2007
- Capabilities API - neutral for PPD, UPDF, etc.
- ACTION - Wendy Phillips (Sun) - propose C header sketch
- Discovery API - neutral for SNMP, LDAP, DNS-SD, SLP, etc.
- ACTION - Ira McDonald - propose C header sketch
(8) Discussion of schedule for 2007 face-to-face meetings:
- FSG/OP Project joint meeting with IEEE-ISTO PWG - spring (April)
- ACTION - Ira/Till - announce to Printing Architecture list
- Printing Summit - fall (September or October)
- ACTION - Ira/Till - announce to Printing Summit list
(9) Directory Structure and Hierarchy - for PPD and Driver files
- Discussion of next steps to move into LSB 3.2
- ACTION - Ira - ask Chris Yeoh - does FHS need help adding?
See 'ACTION' in agenda topics above
(1) Last 2006 meeting - NOTE - one week early
- Thursday, 30 November, Evening
2pm in San Francisco - US PST (Pacific Standard Time)
3pm in Colorado - US MST (Mountain Standard Time)
4pm in Chicago - US CST (Central Standard Time)
5pm in New York - US EST (Eastern Standard Time)
11pm in Paris - Europe CET (Central European Time)
- Friday, 1 December, Morning
7am in Japan - JST (Japan Standard Time)
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(2) First 2007 meeting - NOTE - second week in January
- Monday 8 January 2007, Evening
US/Europe
- Tuesday 9 January 2007, Morning
Japan