OP SC Minutes - 2 April 2007

Linux Foundation (merger of OSDL and FSG) Open Printing Steering Committee Conference Call Minutes 2 April 2007

Meeting called to order by Ira McDonald at 7pm US EDT 2 April 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)

Absentees

Osamu Mihara (Fuji Xerox)
Keisho Shida (Canon)
Yasumasa Toratani (Canon)
Note - problems with conference call equipment prevented attendance by OP/Japan members, but email status from Yasumasa Toratani is recorded below.

Agenda

(0) LF Funding of Printing Implementation (per Jim Z/Dan K via Till)

    - See
      http://www.linux-foundation.org/en/OpenPrinting/Implementation

    - Discussion
      - Till - Funding for CUPS features for LSB/3.2 - top priority
      - Till - Funding for PAPI/JTAPI/etc. - low priority
      - Till - Sun Solaris is moving to CUPS??? (per Ian Murdock)
        - Norm - "this is news to me"

(1) Review minutes of last OP SC meeting - ftp://ftp.pwg.org/pub/pwg/fsg/steering_committee/ in the files OP-SC-Minutes-20070312.htm/pdf
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(3) Schedule for June Open Usability face-to-face meeting

    - LinuxTag 2007 in Berlin - 30 May to 2 June 2007
      http://www.linuxtag.org/2007/en/

    - Open Usability meeting on Printing Dialog at LinuxTag 2007
      - Till - LF will provide some support for the meeting
      - Till - Celeste should attend DAM4 with Open Usability results

(4) Schedule for June LF and Desktop Architects Meeting 4 (DAM4)

    - See
      https://www.linux-foundation.org/en/Desktop_Architects_Meeting_4

    - LF and DAM4 - Mountain View, CA (Google) - 14-16 June 2007
      - Thursday - Linux Foundation Plenary and Keynote speakers
      - Friday/Saturday - Desktop Linux WG and OP WG - separate meetings
      - Saturday afternoon - summary reports and next steps

    - Discussion
      - Till and Glen - currently plan to attend
      - Till - Friday and Saturday morning - Open Printing WG separate

    - Next Steps
      - ACTION
        - Till - send invitations to Ira, Glen, Norm, and Wendy
        - Norm - coordinate with Wendy next week about Sun participation

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

    - Printing Summit - Montreal, CA (TBA) - 10-13 September 2007
      - Joint Plenary IEEE-ISTO PWG / LF OP - Thursday 13 September
      - Ira and Till to work on finding a university site
        per PWG Steering Committee meeting Friday 16 February 2007

    - Next Steps
      - ACTION
        - Till - follow up with University of Montreal contact

(6) Report on Open Printing Japan activities (per Toratani-san)

    - PDAPI Implementation
      - New OPVP code has been implemented
      - Started to test the sample driver of FXPS, and found some bugs
      - Currently, glue code team are trying to fix the bugs

    - PDAPI Spec
      - English translation - 80% complete
      - OP/Japan will review the new docment this month (April)

    - PCM, CUPS PDF filter
      - Several bugs were found during testing
      - Currently, trying to fix them

    - Next Steps
      - ACTION
        - OP SC - harmonize OP/Japan projects and OP Architecture

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

    - Review OP SC member plans and search for concensus

    - Discussion
      - Glen - we are suffering increasing incoherence with OP/Japan
        - Japanese gov't funded implementations are spot solutions
      - Norm - we are suffering increasing incoherence with LF planning
        - defacto standards (LSB) are unhelpful to coherence

    - Next Steps (per Glen)
      - ACTION
        - OP Arch - write plan to get JTAPI implemented in 2007
        - OP Arch - write plan to get OP Thin-thread implemented in 2007

(8) Other printing news

    - 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) Fifth 2007 SC meeting

    - Note
      - Till's vacation may conflict with 7/8 May - he will let us know

    - Monday 7 May 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)

    - Tuesday 8 May 2007, Morning
        12am in Coimbra, Portugal - WEST (Western European Summer Time)
        8am in Japan - JST (Japan Standard Time)

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(2) Sixth 2007 SC meeting - tentative

    - Note
      - Till's attendance at LinuxTag would conflict with 4/5 June

    - Monday 11 June 2007, Evening
      - US

    - Tuesday 12 June 2007, Morning
      - Europe/Japan