Meeting called to order by Ira McDonald at 7pm US EDT 8 September 2008. Minutes taken by Ira McDonald.

Till Kamppeter (Linux Foundation) - Manager, Open Printing
George Liu (Ricoh)
Ira McDonald (High North) - Chair, Open Printing
Glen Petrie (Epson)
Toratani-san (Canon)

Norm Jacobs (Sun)
Mihara-san (Fuji Xerox)
Ogasawara-san (Ricoh)
Shida-san (Canon)

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

  ftp://ftp.pwg.org/pub/pwg/fsg/steering_committee/OP-SC-Minutes-20080818.htm
  
      - No Discussion
  

• (2) Google Summer of Code - Till

      - Discussion
        - No new project status
  
      - Slides for PWG Plenary in Lexington
        - two slides introducing GSoC and then LF projects
        - one slide of Web/Wiki links for more info on OP GSoC projects
        - one summary slide per OP GSoC project
        - one detail slide per OP GSoC project (at end of set) for questions
  
      - ACTION - Till
        - send draft PWG Plenary slides on OP GSoC by Friday 19 September
  

• (3) Open Printing at PWG in Lexington - CANCELED

      - Discussion
        - PWG face-to-face in Lexington, Kentucky
          - Tuesday 21 October to Thursday 23 October
        - OP Working Session - CANCELED
          - due to lack of attendees
        - OP GSoC at PWG Plenary
          - Glen Petrie will present slides with latest status
        - Highlight successful native PDF workflow in KDE apps in Ubuntu
          - see discussion below about IJS
  
      - Next Open Printing Summit
        - at LF Summit in San Francisco in April 2009
  
      - ACTION - All
        - review and comment on draft GSoC slides from Till for PWG
  

• (4) CUPS/1.4 - Missing IJS in PDF Workflow - Glen, Till

      - Discussion
        - Till - only CUPS Raster in a Pipe - no backchannel
        - Glen - lack of IJS is vendor-unfriendly
          - each vendor must write one backend for bidi
        - Toratani-san - bidi support?
          - Canon has written their own replacement for CUPS backend
        - Till - IJS workarounds
          - pdftoijs (Poppler-based) could be installed instead of using GS
        - Ira
          - much other discussion here not captured in these minutes...
  

• See 'ACTION' in agenda topics above

• (1) October 2008 SC meeting

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• (2) November 2008 SC meeting - tentative

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      - Monday 3 November 2008, Evening
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