OP SC Minutes - 18 August 2008

Open Printing Steering Committee - Conference Call Minutes

Meeting called to order by Ira McDonald at 7pm US EDT 18 August 2008. Minutes taken by Ira McDonald.

Attendees

Absentees

Agenda

(1) Review minutes of last OP SC meeting - Ira McDonald

ftp://ftp.pwg.org/pub/pwg/fsg/steering_committee/OP-SC-Minutes-20080602.htm

    - No Discussion

(2) Google Summer of Code - Till

    - Program Timeline
      - End of Coding - 18 August 2008
      - End of Evaluations of Students by Mentors - 1 September 2008
      - GSoC Mentor Summit at Google - 24-25 October 2008
        - NOTE - conflicts with Open Printing at PWG face-to-face in Lexington

    - ACTION - All mentors
      - complete student evaluations by 1 September 2008

(3) GSoc PAPI Integration in CUPS - Norm

    - Cherif Yaya has completed coding
    - Norm Jacobs (mentor)
    - Norm will download and evaluate code

(4) GSoC PDF Filters for CUPS - Till

    - Tobias has finished coding successfully
    - Hin-Tak Leung (mentor)
    - Till has added to Debian and Ubuntu Intreprid (November 2008)

(5) GSoC Common Printing Dialog - Till

    - Lars Uebernickel has finished coding CPDAPI
    - Alexander Wauck has finished coding KDE implementation
    - Lars Uebernickel is coding Gnome implementation
      - Will continue this fall - finish Gnome in 1-2 months
    - Jonathan Riddell, Kubuntu, dual-GUI (KDE/GNOME mentor)
    - Till Kamppeter (CDP mentor)

(6) GSoC OP Database Web Admin App - Till
    - Subhankar Sett has only finished part
    - Till Kamppeter (mentor)
    - much more coding is needed to complete

(7) Foomatic 4.0 PDF Support - Till
    - George - Are there new XML formats used?
      - Till - No
    - Norm - Is there an XML Schema or DTD?
      - Till - No
    - Ira - Liquid XML Studio can *infer* an XML Schema from an XML instance
      - Note - Liquid XML Studio (free) is only available on Windows

    - ACTION - TBD Persons
      - Use Liquid XML Studio or Altova XML Spy to infer a starter XML Schema

(8) Open Printing at PWG in Lexington - All
    - PWG face-to-face is Tuesday 21 October to Thursday 23 October
    - IEEE P2600 is Friday 24 October

    - Discussion
      - Glen - Microsoft requested at previous PWG that Imaging Device Security
        and MFD Scan Service meetings NOT be split across days (as in the past)
      - Glen - OP should present slides on GSoC progress
      - Ira - OP will reserve 1 hour immediately before or after PWG Plenary
        - Probably on Thursday 23 October 2008
      - Ira - OP Japan members have previous asked for a small OP working
        session (6-8 people) for 3-4 hours at PWG in Lexington in October

    - Attendance
      - Glen and Till would attend
      - George would like to attend
      - Norm would not attend
      - Ira would probably not attend

    - ACTION - Ira - DONE
      - Query OP Japan members for interest in OP working session at PWG
        - Replies due by Monday 8 September

Open Action Items

See 'ACTION' in agenda topics above

Next OP Steering Committee Teleconferences

(1) September 2008 SC meeting

    - Monday 8 September 2008, Evening
      - US/Europe
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        5pm in Colorado - US MDT (Mountain Daylight Time)
        6pm in Chicago - US CDT (Central Daylight Time)
        7pm in New York - US EST (Eastern Daylight Time)

    - Tuesday 9 September 2008, Morning
      - Europe
        1am in Berlin - CEST (Central European Summer Time)
      - Japan
        8am in Japan - JST (Japan Standard Time)

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(2) October 2008 SC meeting - tentative

    - Monday 6 October 2008, Evening
      - US

    - Tuesday 7 October 2008, Morning
      - Japan/Europe