PWG Steering Committee Minutes
2024-12-02

Attendees: Smith, Jeremy, Ira, Alan, Bill, Paul

Agenda

1. Administrivia
2. Action Item Review (all)
   
3. November F2F Post-Mortem (all)
   
4. Communication Challenges (all)
   
5. JG 80 Liaison Discussion - any updates? (Paul)
   
6. PWG 3D - IPP Article Development (Paul)
   
7. PWG 3D - PR Opportunities (Paul)
   
8. OpenPrinting/GSoC - updates (Ira)
   
9. Other Liaisons (all)
   
10. Next SC Meetings (all)

Minutes

• Administrivia
• IPR
  
• Roll Call
  
• Minutes from previous meetings
• https://ftp.pwg.org/pub/pwg/general/sc/pwg-sc-call-minutes-20241104.html
• Approved? YES
  
• Action Item Review (all)
• [AI] - Jeremy / Smith: Reach out to the Fiery primary member representative to see if they have been bought and if so how that might affect the membership here
  
• IN PROCESS
  
• [AI] - Jeremy / Smith / Ira: Research PWG Process 4.0 / policy docs? What about membership application? If not, we need to update the Membership policy to state this and we perhaps ought to make sure the membership application and the policy are congruent with or consistent with one another.
  
• OPEN
  
• November F2F Post-Mortem (all)
• Went well, as usual
• Attendance was pretty good
• February F2F Planning (all)
• [AI] - Smith : send out a draft agenda
  
• Communication Challenges (all)
• Nothing new
• Alan and Bill are still subscribed
  
• JG 80 Liaison Discussion - any updates? (Paul)
• [AI] - Paul : Send an email to the convener of the Construction Working Group on the ASTM side to find a way to join so that he can contribute to JG80
• Paul to promote PWG Safe G-Code as a best practice and evangelize the intent vs. process perspective
  
• PWG 3D - IPP Article Development (Paul)
• [AI] - Paul :  Finish email to a guy at Auburn U. that does the cybersecurity track at [ICAM?]
• Seems like a lot of presentations of white papers but not a lot of actual work getting done i.e., showing progress on what was discussed
• This is weird because ICAM is supposed to assist with the deployment and implementation of ASTM standards. AMSC seems to do better in some ways
  
• PWG 3D - PR Opportunities (Paul)
• [AI] - Paul : Get the draft document presented at VDMA meeting that is close to completion and approval so that he and we can make comments on it before it is approved (if that opening is still available)
  
• OpenPrinting/GSoC - updates (Ira)
• GSoC 2024 Summary
• https://openprinting.github.io/OpenPrinting-News-October-2024/#google-summer-of-code-2024
  
• Here are the key dates for the 2025 Google Summer of Code (GSoC) program:
      •    December 10, 2024: Program announcement
      •    January 21, 2025: Organization applications open
      •    February 5, 2025: Organization application deadline
      •    February 19, 2025: Organization notification date
      •    February 20, 2025: Accepted organizations announced
      •    March 17, 2025: Contributor proposals open
      •    April 1, 2025: Proposal deadline
      •    April 22, 2025: Proposal ranking deadline
      •    April 29, 2025: Slot allocation deadline
      •    April 30, 2025: Projects announced to organizations
      •    May 1, 2025: Accepted projects announced
      •    November 13, 2025: Program end date
  
• Other Liaisons (all)
• 3MF Consortium: No updates (Mike not present)
• Mopria: No updates
  
• Next SC Meetings (all)
• 2024-12-09 - SC Meeting
• Review draft agenda for February F2F
  
• 2024-12-16 - SC Meeting
• 2024-12-23 - CANCELED
• 2024-12-30 - CANCELED
• 2025-01-06 - SC Meeting
• Start thinking about the May F2F and meeting in person
• 2025-01-13 - SC Meeting
• F2F Plenary slide review