PWG Steering Committee Minutes * 1 May 2023

Attendees

Smith Kennedy (HP Inc, PWG Vice Chair)
Jeremy Leber (Lexmark, PWG Chair)
Ira McDonald (High North, PWG Secretary, IPP WG Co-Chair)
Alan Sukert (Independent, IDS WG Chair)
Bill Wagner (TIC, former Cloud WG Chair, former WIMS WG Chair)

Preface

This meeting was announced and chaired by Jeremy Leber.

These minutes were prepared by Ira McDonald with draft minutes from Smith Kennedy.

Agenda

(0) Agenda bashing, IP Policy, minute taker

- Review agenda and state PWG IP Policy
  - Ira McDonald and Smith Kennedy as minute takers

- Revised Agenda:

  (1) Administrivia
  (2) Action Item Review
  (3) May F2F Plenary Slides - review (Jeremy / All)
  (4) PWG Process 4.0 and Policies - review (All)
  (5) PWG Website update for Security and Privacy - status (Mike)
  (6) PWG Hosting Organization - update (Ira)
  (7) PWG 2023 Member Dues - status and next steps (Jeremy)
  (8) PWG Communications Challenges - status (All)
  (9) PWG 3D / IPP article development - status (All)
  (10) OpenPrinting News/GSoC - update (Ira)
  (11) PWG 3D PR Opportunities 2023 - update (Paul)
  (12) Next SC meetings

(1) Administrivia
https://ftp.pwg.org/pub/pwg/general/sc/pwg-sc-call-minutes-20230417.htm

- IPR declaration

- Roll call

- Review minutes of SC meeting (17 April 2023)
  - Approved as posted - except for typo for SC meeting on 29 May 2023 - fixed below

(2) Action Item Review

ACTION: 04/17/23 - Smith to resend speaker invitation message for May F2F 2023 to Google
- CLOSED

(3) May F2F Plenary Slides - review (Jeremy / All)
https://www.pwg.org/chair/meeting-info/may-2023-virtual.html

- Discussion
  - Reviewed Plenary slides
    - minor updates

  - Jeremy and Smith to work offline to get the SC slides up to date and the GANTT chart to be 
    accurate

(4) PWG Process 4.0 and Policies - review (All)
https://ftp.pwg.org/pub/pwg/general/wd/wd-process-4-20230501.pdf
https://ftp.pwg.org/pub/pwg/general/wd/wd-process-4-20230501-rev.pdf

- Discussion
  - 6 newly approved PWG Policy documents
    - PWG Communications Policy
    - PWG Document Management Policy
    - PWG Meetings Policy
    - PWG Membership Policy
    - PWG Roles & Responsibilities Policy
    - PWG Workgroup Decisions Policy

  - Process 4.0 stable draft - ready for SC LC / PWG LC / PWG Formal Approval?

  - Process 4.0 ready to start SC LC?
    - Yes, ready for SC Last Call

    - Alan already sent feedback

    - Shortened SC Last Call to be in PWG Last Call by PWG May F2F, so announce it today, 
      run until 05/11, then start PWG Last Call on 05/11 or 05/12 *before* PWG May F2F

    - Jeremy started SC Last Call on PWG Process 4.0, start 05/01/23 end 05/11/23

(5) PWG Website update for Security and Privacy - status (Mike)
https://pwg.org/security/
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- Discussion
  - No updates

  - Mike still not here...
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(6) PWG Hosting Organization - update (Ira)
https://www.standardshub.io/

- Discussion
  - No updates

  - Ira working to get back to this (his real job is keeping him a tad occupied...)

(7) PWG 2023 Member Dues - status and next steps (Jeremy, Smith)

- Discussion
  - Apple has paid

  - SNBC and directprint.io are still unpaid and no responses
    - What to do?
    - Jeremy to follow up and let them know they need to pay ASAP or lose their membership

  - Do we need to restructure things for 2024 so that the process "works"?
    - Billing earlier

    - ISTO to fix their payment infrastructure!

(8) PWG Communications Challenges - status (All)

- Discussion
  - Everybody seems to be working for IPP WG?
    - Since Smith resubscribed Ira, Bill, Alan at previous SC meeting

  - MOST OF THE SC WERE UNSUBSCRIBED...WHAT???
    - Smith resubscribed all of us

  - Test message to occur in a sec...
    - Worked!

(9) 3D / IPP article development - status (All)
https://amcoe.org/event/icam2023/

- Discussion
  - ICAM 2023 (Washington, DC) - 30 October to 3 November 2023
    - Alan / Paul waiting to hear back from ICAM

  - Paul's not here...

(10) OpenPrinting - update (Ira) https://ftp.pwg.org/pub/pwg/liaison/openprinting/minutes/OP-Minutes-20230404.htm
https://openprinting.github.io/OpenPrinting-News-April-2023/
https://developers.google.com/open-source/gsoc/timeline
https://github.com/OpenPrinting/cups/releases/tag/v2.4.2
https://github.com/OpenPrinting/libcups/releases/v3.0b1
https://github.com/OpenPrinting/cups-filters/releases/tag/1.28.17
https://github.com/michaelrsweet/pappl/releases/tag/v1.3.1
https://github.com/michaelrsweet/pdfio/releases/tag/v1.0.1
https://github.com/michaelrsweet/lprint/releases/tag/v1.1.0

- Discussion
  - See OP Monthly Steering Committee minutes links from 04/04/23 (Ira)

  - See OP Monthly news links from 04/16/23 (Till)

  - GSoC 2023 (Till/Aveek/Ira)
    - Aveek has gotten enough candidates they could double-staff all projects - good job Aveek!

    - See timeline link above!

    - DONE - 23 January 2023 - Mentoring organizations start submitting applications to Google

    - DONE - 7 February 2023 - Mentoring organization application deadline

    - DONE - 22 February 2023 - List of accepted mentoring orgs published - LF accepted!

    - DONE - 22 February to 19 March 2023 - Potential GSoC contributors discuss application
      ideas with mentoring organizations

    - DONE - 20 March 2023 - GSoC contributor application period begins

    - DONE 4 April 2023 - GSoC contributor application period ends

    - 27 April 2023 - GSoC contributor proposal rankings due from Org Admins

    - 4 May 2023 - Accepted GSoC contributor projects announced

  - See OP CUPS v2.4.2 release notes link from 05/26/22 (Zdenek Dohnal, RedHat)

  - See OP CUPS v3 beta1 release notes link from 02/09/23 (Mike)

  - See CUPS Filters v1.28.17 release notes link from 01/24/23 (Till)
    - Release candidate of CUPS Filters v2.0 is available from 04/12/23 (Till)!

  - See PAPPL v1.3.1 release notes link from 12/30/22 (Mike)

  - See PDFio v1.0.1 release notes link from 03/02/21 (Mike)

  - See LPrint v1.1.0 release notes link from 12/23/21 (Mike)

  - OP Steering Committee
    - OP monthly calls on 03/07/23, 04/04/23, and upcoming 05/09/23

(11) PWG 3D PR Opportunities 2023 - update (Paul)

- Discussion
  - No updates

  - Paul's not here...

(12) Next SC meetings (All)
http://ftp.pwg.org/pub/pwg/general/sc

- SHIFTING PHASE - swapping SC and TT weeks for now?

- SC - Monday 8 May 2023 11am Pacific / 2pm Eastern
  - Final Plenary slides for Joint PWG/OP Summit May F2F 

- SC Tiger Team - Monday 15 May 2023 11am Pacific / 2pm Eastern
  - CANCELED due to Joint PWG/OP Summit on 16-18 May 2023

- SC - Monday 22 May 2023 11am Pacific / 2pm Eastern
  - PWG May F2F Post-mortem
  - Switch phase of SC / TT back? 
  - Or just call them all SC and decide whether to cancel the next week's meeting that week?

- SC Tiger Team - Monday 29 May 2023 11am Pacific / 2pm Eastern
  - CANCELED due to US Memorial Day

- SC - Monday 5 June 2023 11am Pacific / 2pm Eastern
 - TBD topics

- SC Tiger Team - Monday 12 June 2023 11am Pacific / 2pm Eastern
 - TBD topics

- SC - Monday 19 June 2023 11am Pacific / 2pm Eastern
 - TBD topics

Previous Action Items

ACTION: Ira to document OID arc usage in PWG
- OPEN - pwg-mib-numbers-20091220.txt
- "arc" is any single value (often least-significant) in an OID - Existing plain text PWG policy and registry for each PWG MIB base OID - IBM gave PWG a permanent arc for LDAP OIDs for Print Schema (RFC 7612)
- LDAP OIDs to be documented in a additional policy and registry in ".../process/"
ACTION: Smith/Mike/Ira/anybody to draft whitepaper on late binding for best fidelity in Cloud servers, intent vs. process for output fidelity, and the fundamental design ethos of the PWG's work
- OPEN
- Perhaps have as a topic for some future PWG F2F to enumerate core set of concepts with which to construct an outline for the document
- Smith to add discussion of this late binding for the future F2F Plenary
ACTION: 07/15/19 - Smith to look for alternate web hosting providers and / or discuss other solutions with Mike Sweet
- IN PROGRESS
ACTION: 09/09/19 - Smith/Ira to keep nudging forward IPP Everywhere™ plugfest
- OPEN
ACTION: 06/15/20 - Smith to create new "PWG Documents Style Policy" and add line numbering, change logs, and other style recommendations there, so that they don't get lost - also add text discussing templates as well
- IN PROGRESS
ACTION: 06/15/20 - Smith/Ira to add discussion of change logs in the new draft "PWG Documents Style Policy"
- OPEN
ACTION: 01/24/22 - Smith to contact 3MF Consortium about renewing PWG / 3MF Consortium liaison agreement
- IN PROGRESS
- PWG officers to meet w/ 3MF Consortium in week of 09/26/22
ACTION: 07/25/22 - Paul / Alan to discuss what they are going to present on 3D later in the fall of 2022
- IN PROGRESS
ACTION: 08/22/22 - Jeremy to reach out to Mike for review of PWG Website update for Security and Privacy at a future PWG SC Tiger Team meeting
- IN PROGRESS
ACTION: 10/17/22 - Paul to contact Luis at 3MF (and CC Mike and Jeremy) with a description of the AMSC v3.0 opportunity and request immediate collaboration to work together on this in AMSC, but not overtly mention the liaison in the note
- OPEN
ACTION: 10/17/22 - Paul to check in with Holger (Enterprise Documents WG of Guide Share Europe) and see what is needed next
- OPEN
ACTION: 10/17/22 - Smith / Jeremy to update the PWG Members page with PrinterLogic's URL and logo image (and the November 2022 Plenary slide deck too...)
- OPEN
ACTION: 10/31/22 - Paul to post 3D / IPP article next draft for review at an upcoming Tiger Team meeting
- IN PROGRESS
ACTION: 03/06/23 - Jeremy / Ira / Mike / Smith to find a time to have a next discussion with Standards Hub folks (refreshed from 10/17/22)
- OPEN
ACTION: 03/20/23 - Jeremy and Alan to poke the email thread on PWG Website update for Security and Privacy with a stick to make sure that it hasn't gone dormant (refreshed from 10/31/22)
- CLOSED
ACTION: 04/17/23 - Smith to resend speaker invitation message for May F2F 2023 to Google
- CLOSED