OP SC Minutes - 12 March 2007

Linux Foundation (formerly OSDL and FSG) Open Printing Steering Committee Conference Call Minutes 12 March 2007

Meeting called to order by Ira McDonald at 7pm US EST 12 March 2007. Minutes taken by Ira McDonald.

Attendees

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

Absentees

Osamu Mihara (Fuji Xerox)
Glen Petrie (Epson)

Agenda

(1) Review minutes of last OP SC meeting - ftp://ftp.pwg.org/pub/pwg/fsg/steering_committee/ in the files OP-SC-Minutes-20070205.htm/pdf
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(2) OP Participation in Google Summer of Code (GSoC) 2007 - http://code.google.com/p/google-summer-of-code/wiki/AdviceforMentors

    - See Till's recent notes and the Wiki for OP projects in GSoC
      http://www.linux-foundation.org/en/OpenPrinting/GoSC2007

    - Google recommends two administrators and two mentors per student
      - Admin - Till Kamppeter (LF) will be Primary Administrator
      - Admin - Ira McDonald (High North) will be Backup Administrator
      - PDF Workflow - Till Kamppeter (LF) will be Mentor
      - PDF Workflow - Norm Jacobs (Sun) will be Co-Mentor
      - OPVP API - Need volunteer for Mentor
      - OPVP API - Ralph Giles (Ghostscript) will be Co-Mentor
      - PAPI - No mentors identified
      - JTAPI - No mentors identified

    - Discussion
      - All - too short timeframe to get manager approval for mentors

    - Next Steps
      - ACTION
        - Till - revise LF OP GSoC pages - submit application to Google

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

    - NEW DATES - one week _earlier_
      - per PWG Steering Committee meeting 16 February 2007

    - Printing Summit - Montreal, CA (TBA) - 10-13 September 2007
      - Joint Plenary IEEE-ISTO PWG / OP PS - Thursday 13 September

    - Discussion
      - Till - combine with OP WG meetings (one day of sessions)
      - 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/ Kathy Ericksen (LF) to find university
         per PWG Steering Committee meeting Thursday 4 January 2007

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

    - Next Steps
      - ACTION
        - All SC members - Write up your PDAPI editorial comments
      - ACTION
        - April SC - Develop a plan and schedule for release

(5) Future directions for Open Printing - 2007 to 2009

    - Next Steps
      - ACTION
        - All SC members - write future directions emails
      - ACTION
        - April SC - Review OP SC member plans and search for concensus

(6) Other printing news
    - OP Japan news
      - Revised OPVP headers/code (new naming conventions)
      - Implemented new drivers
      - Will have new 1.0 drivers to testing this month (March)
      - Will have translated revised OPVP spec into English in April
      - PCM API implementation almost done
      - Will release PCM and OPVP Driver code in May

    - Linux Printing news
      - Till will send a note describing improvements to OP Arch list

Open Action Items

See 'ACTION' in agenda topics above

Next OP Steering Committee Teleconferences

(1) Fourth 2007 SC meeting

    - Monday 2 April 2007, Evening
        4pm in San Francisco - US PDT (Pacific Daylight Time)
        5pm in Colorado - US MDT (Mountain Daylight Time)
        6pm in Chicago - US CDT (Central Daylight Time)
        7pm in New York - US EDT (Eastern Daylight Time)
        11pm in Coimbra, Portugal - WET (Western European Time)

    - Tuesday 3 April 2007, Morning
        8am in Japan - JST (Japan Standard Time)

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(2) Fifth 2007 SC meeting - tentative

    - Monday 7 May 2007, Evening
        US/Europe

    - Tuesday 8 May 2007, Morning
        Japan