OP Monthly US|Europe Minutes

OP Monthly US|Europe Minutes - 14 August 2013

Meeting called to order by Ira McDonald at 12pm US Eastern 14 August 2013. Minutes taken by Ira McDonald. Recording of this conference call will be archived at:

    http://www.openprinting.org/download/meetingnotes/op-telecons/
      OP-Meeting-20130814.mp3

Attendees

Till Kamppeter (Canonical) - Open Printing Manager
Ira McDonald (High North) - Open Printing Chair
Glen Petrie (Epson) - PWG standards expert

Agenda

(0) *** 2014 Joint PWG / Open Printing Summit ***

- Joint PWG/OPS at Cupertino, CA (hosted by Apple) - 13-16 May 2014
  - http://www.pwg.org/chair/meeting-info/meetings.html
  - *** Add to your calendar ***

(1) OP website updates (Glen, Till)

- Glen suggests a much short home page
  - frequently updated w/ fresh content

- Home page w/ a few topics and links
  - FAQs
  - Keyword lists at bottom of page (for web crawlers)
  - User (get a driver, get CUPS, read FAQ)
  - Developer (write a driver, store a driver, read FAQ)

- Mission Statement
  - Remove "develop standards"

- Open Printing Summit
  - link to list of summits, contributors

- Printing Problems Page
  - FAQs
  - links to basic Linux knowledge page

- Strategy/Ideas Page
  - Live Wiki - anyone can add content
  - Identify areas of incoherence
  - Propose possible projects or solutions

- Print Reference Model - top of Strategy page
  - Client
  - Preview
  - Drivers
  - Spoolers
  - ...

- ACTION - Glen/Till/Ira - Continue email discussions on OP website

(2) Common Mobile Print Client (Glen, Till)

- Glen fixed CMPC source to run on either 32-bit or 64-bit Linux
  - Till has built 64-bit version of CMPC on Ubuntu

(3) LSB 5.0 (Glen)

- Glen is working on LSB 5.0 for SANE release in near future
  - LSB is just now finishing up previous LSB 4.x release
  - LSB 5.0 beta in Q4 2013

(4) CUPS 1.7 in Ubuntu (Till)

- Till is currently tedsting CUPS 1.7 RC1 on Ubuntu

- CUPS 1.7 will make it into Ubuntu 13.10 (Saucy)

- Ghostscript 9.08 will make it into Ubuntu 13.10 (Saucy)

- Till released new version of CUPS filters yesterday w/ bug fixes

(5) Google Summer of Code (Till)
http://www.google-melange.com/gsoc/homepage/google/gsoc2013

- GSoC 2013 Schedule
  - DONE - 28 May - GSoC students do spin-up w/ mentors

  - DONE - 17 June - GSoC students start coding

  - DONE - 2 August - All GSoC students in Linux Foundation still active

  - 16 September - GSoC students stop coding

  - 27 September - GSoC students begin submission of code samples

  - 1 October - GSoC final results to be announced

- GSoC Open Printing projects - 4 students accepted

  - Foomatic RIP Filter - Anshul Kushwaha
    - reduce to CUPS only (remove now unsupported print systems)
    - move project results to CUPS Filters

  - Color Management - Joe Simon
    - enhance CUPS for color mgmt

  - OP Website - Jannes Jeising and Anton Kirilenko
    - usability extensions

(6) Upcoming Conferences (Ira)

- Broadband Forum in Atlanta, GA 16-20 September 2013
  - http://www.broadband-forum.org/meetings/eventscalendar.php
  - Note - Ira will attend as Guest Speaker for PWG CWMP Data Model

- PWG Meeting at Cupertino, CA (hosted by Ricoh) - 22-24 October 2013
  - http://www.pwg.org/chair/meeting-info/meetings.html
  - Note - conflicts w/ TCG meeting same week in Osaka, Japan

- Trusted Computing Group in Osaka, Japan 21-25 October 2013
  - http://www.trustedcomputinggroup.org/
  - Note - conflicts w/ PWG meeting same week in Cupertino, CA

- PWG Meeting at Irvine, CA (hosted by Samsung) - 4-6 February 2014
  - http://www.pwg.org/chair/meeting-info/meetings.html
  - Note - conflicts w/ TCG meeting same week in Osaka, Japan

Open Action Items

See 'ACTION' above

Next OP Conference Calls

(1) September 2013 - US/Europe - OP Monthly Meeting

    - Note - 2-6 September 2013 is a US holiday week

    - Wednesday 11 September 2013, Daytime
      - US
        9am in San Francisco - US PDT (Pacific Daylight Time)
        10am in Colorado - US MDT (Mountain Daylight Time)
        11am in Chicago - US CDT (Central Daylight Time)
        12pm in New York - US EDT (Eastern Daylight Time)
      - Europe
        6pm in Berlin - CEST (Central European Summer Time)

    * Main Number (Till Kamppeter, LF, leader)
      International: +1-619-326-2730 (new number)
      Access Code:   491659#

(2) October 2013 - US/Europe - OP Monthly Meeting (tentative)

    - Note - 22-24 October 2013 is PWG Meeting in Cupertino, CA
    - Note - 21-25 October 2013 is TCG meeting in Osaka, Japan

    - Wednesday 2 October 2013, Daytime
      - US
        9am in San Francisco - US PDT (Pacific Daylight Time)
        10am in Colorado - US MDT (Mountain Daylight Time)
        11am in Chicago - US CDT (Central Daylight Time)
        12pm in New York - US EDT (Eastern Daylight Time)
      - Europe
        6pm in Berlin - CEST (Central European Summer Time)

    * Main Number (Till Kamppeter, LF, leader)
      International: +1-619-326-2730 (new number)
      Access Code:   491659#

(3) November 2013 - US/Europe - OP Monthly Meeting (tentative)

    - Note - European Summer Time ends on 27 October 2013
    - Note - US Daylight Savings Time ends on 2 November 2013

    - Wednesday 6 November 2013, Daytime
      - US
        9am in San Francisco - US PST (Pacific Standard Time)
        10am in Colorado - US MST (Mountain Standard Time)
        11am in Chicago - US CST (Central Standard Time)
        12pm in New York - US EST (Eastern Standard Time)
      - Europe
        6pm in Berlin - CET (Central European Time)

    * Main Number (Till Kamppeter, LF, leader)
      International: +1-619-326-2730 (new number)
      Access Code:   491659#

(4) December 2013 - US/Europe - OP Monthly Meeting (tentative)

    - Wednesday 4 December 2013, Daytime
      - US
        9am in San Francisco - US PST (Pacific Standard Time)
        10am in Colorado - US MST (Mountain Standard Time)
        11am in Chicago - US CST (Central Standard Time)
        12pm in New York - US EST (Eastern Standard Time)
      - Europe
        6pm in Berlin - CET (Central European Time)

    * Main Number (Till Kamppeter, LF, leader)
      International: +1-619-326-2730 (new number)
      Access Code:   491659#