OP SC Minutes - 5 February 2007

Linux Foundation (formerly OSDL and FSG) Open Printing Steering Committee Conference Call Minutes 5 February 2007

Meeting called to order by Ira McDonald at 6pm US EST 5 February 2007. Minutes taken by Ira McDonald.

Attendees

Norm Jacobs (Sun)
Till Kamppeter (Linux Foundation)
Ira McDonald (High North) - Linux Foundation Open Printing Chair
Glen Petrie (Epson)
Keisho Shida (Canon)
Yasumasa Toratani (Canon)

Absentees

Osamu Mihara (Fuji Xerox)

Agenda

(0) Open Printing Japan meeting w/ Jim Zemlin and Dan Kohn

    - Discussion
      - Shida summary - Reviewed OP projects summary (October) from Ira
      - Shida comment - OP WG should meet w/ Jim/Dan before other LF WGs

    - Next Steps
      - ACTION
        - Jim - Joint meetings w/ other LF working groups in April?
      - ACTION
        - Ira talk to Jim and schedule meeting with other LF WGs

(1) Review minutes of last OP SC meeting at ftp://ftp.pwg.org/pub/pwg/fsg/steering_committee/ in the files FSGOP-SC-Minutes-20070115.htm/pdf
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    - Discussion
      - Approved as written
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(2) Reports from OSDL Desktop Architects Meeting - 7-8 December 2006

    - Discussion
      - Ira - see minutes from previous OP SC meeting

(3) Schedule for April Open Printing face-to-face meeting

    - OP - Piscataway, NJ (IEEE Headquarters) - 24-26 April 2007
      - Joint Plenary IEEE-ISTO PWG / OP - Thursday 26 April

    - Discussion
      - Glen - need technical topics to justify face-to-face meeting
      - Shida - meet with other LF working groups?
      - Toratani - review draft PCM/1.0 API spec?
      - Ira - review White Paper on Portland common print UI?
      - Till - review Open Usability prototype/design?

    - Next Steps
      - ACTION
        - Till - schedule Open Usability meeting in Europe early April
      - ACTION
        - SC - identify technical issues for April face-to-face

(4) Schedule for September Printing Summit face-to-face meeting

    - Printing Summit - Montreal, CA (need host) - 17-20 September 2007
      - Joint Plenary IEEE-ISTO PWG / OP - Thursday 20 September

    - Discussion
      - US participants _must_ have valid US passports to re-enter US
      - Non-US participants' Visa applications _should_ be easier

    - Next Steps
      - ACTION - Ira and Till
        - Work w/ Janet Sun (LF) to find a university site
          per PWG Steering Committee meeting - Thursday 4 January 2007

(5) Schedule for PDAPI/1.0 (Vector Printer Driver API - aka OPVP)

    - Discussion
      - Michael Sweet - requested better English and a model section
      - Till - sent some comments - thanks
      - Toratani - now revising description of rasterization in spec
      - Toratani - will implement revised OPVP driver by end-of-February
      - All - keep 'opvp' prefix for backward compatibility w/ 0.2 spec

    - Next Steps
      - ACTION
        - Every SC member - Write up your PDAPI editorial comments
      - ACTION
        - March SC - review comments / schedule final PDAPI/1.0 draft

(6) Future directions for FSG Open Printing - 2007 to 2009

    - Discussion
      - Ira - sent email proposal - Monday 15 January
      - All - deferred until next OP SC meeting

    - Next Steps
      - ACTION
        - All SC members - suggested by Shida
          Write up your OP mid-term vision/plan (2007 to 2009)
      - ACTION
        - March SC - review plans / search for concensus

(7) Other printing news

    - Till - Open Usability common UI
      - Open Usability team has intern 3 months 20 hours/week
    - Till - Distribution Independent Driver Package
      - posted note on Printing Architecture with instructions
    - Norm - PAPI on Source Forge
      - fixed some bugs
      - added 'man' pages for API (service, printer, job, attributes)

Open Action Items

See 'ACTION' in agenda topics above

Next OP Steering Committee Teleconferences

(1) Third 2007 SC meeting

    - Monday 12 March 2007, Evening
        3pm in San Francisco - US PST (Pacific Standard Time)
        4pm in Colorado - US MST (Mountain Standard Time)
        5pm in Chicago - US CST (Central Standard Time)
        6pm in New York - US EST (Eastern Standard Time)
        11pm in Coimbra, Portugal - WET (Western European Time)

    - Tuesday 13 March 2007, Morning
        8am in Japan - JST (Japan Standard Time)

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(2) Fourth 2007 SC meeting - tentative

    - Monday 2 April 2007, Evening
        US/Europe

    - Tuesday 3 April 2007, Morning
        Japan