OP Conference Call Minutes - 3 November 2009

Open Printing Conference Call Minutes

Meeting called to order by Ira McDonald at 12pm US EST 3 November 2009. Minutes taken by Ira McDonald.
Recording of this conference call will be archived at:

    http://www.openprinting.org/download/meetingnotes/op-telecons/
      OP-Meeting-20091103.mp3

Attendees

Agenda

(1) Common Print Dialog - Till and Lars

    - Approved possible CPD funding for Lars - Till
      - 2 part-time developers for 3 months
      - 1 full-time designer
    - Updated GTK CPD code
      - Per made major improvements in the last month - Till
    - Concern about moving CPD code into the mainstream - George
      - Perhaps move portions into mainstream in stages?

(2) 3-day Tutorial for Printer Manufacturers in Japan - Till

    - Delayed until after new Linux Foundation web site is complete
      - see (3) below
    - Tutorial Topics
      - Suggested to manufacturers during 14 September OP Meeting
      - Driver design
      - Driver packaging for autodownload
      - Common Printing Dialog

(3) New Linux Foundation Website (work-in-progress) - Till

    - Performance and functionality improvements
      - Forms for uploading drivers and tarballs into MySQL database
    - MySQL database now implemented even in the old web site - Till
      - New user contributions blocked temporarily
      - Use old Foomatic repository for now and notify Till
    - For binaries, in future manufacturers will be asked to host rather
      than Open Printing hosting (performance and legal reasons)
      - Distros can get digital signature keys from manufacturers
      - Infrastructure at LF OP should be ready in 1 or 2 months
    - Static pages changed over to Drupal
      - http://drupal.org/
    - Need I18N for OP home page and driver download page - George Liu
      - No other natural languages supported yet - Till
      - Web query API and MySQL database have message catalogs - Till
      - Should add (e.g., Japanese, Korean, German, etc.) - Consensus
      - See W3C standards and guidelines for I18N - Ira
        http://www.w3.org/International/technique-index
    - Need Accessibility for all Linux Foundation web pages - Ira
      - See W3C guidelines for Accessibility - Ira
        http://www.w3.org/WAI/guid-tech.html

(4) PWG News - report by Ira

    - PWG Face-to-Face - Tuesday to Thursday 13-15 October 2009
      http://www.pwg.org/chair/meeting-info/October_2009_Cupertino.html
      - hosted by Apple in Cupertino, CA
    - PWG IPP Job and Printer Operations Set2
      ftp://ftp.pwg.org/pub/pwg/ipp/wd/
        wd-ippjobprinterext10-v10-20091025.pdf
      - Resubmit-Job, Cancel-My-Jobs, Cancel-Jobs, job save, proof print
    - PWG Power Management Model
      ftp://ftp.pwg.org/pub/pwg/wims/wd/wd-wimspower10-20091028.pdf
      - content complete - new lighter conformance requirements
    - PWG Power Management MIB
      ftp://ftp.pwg.org/pub/pwg/wims/wd/wd-wimspowermib10-20090930.txt
      - first ASN.1 sketch - new complete ASN.1 draft by mid-November
    - PWG Command Set Format for IEEE 1284 Device ID
      ftp://ftp.pwg.org/pub/pwg/pmp/wd/wd-pmp1284cmdset10-20091001.pdf
      - ABNF for Printer MIB and MIME type names in Device ID
      - new draft to PWG Last Call by late November
    - PWG/DMTF CIM Schema for Print Services
      ftp://ftp.pwg.org/pub/pwg/wims/cim/mofinput/ira-20090923.zip
      - new PrintService and PrintJob attributes for IPP/2.0 support
      - new PrintServiceSettings and PrintServiceCapabilities classes
    - PWG MFD Overall Model and Semantics
      ftp://ftp.pwg.org/pub/pwg/mfd/wd/wd-mfdoverallmod10-20090922.pdf
    - PWG Copy Service
      ftp://ftp.pwg.org/pub/pwg/mfd/wd/wd-wimspower10-20091027.pdf
    - PWG Semantic Model XML Schema
      ftp://ftp.pwg.org/pub/pwg/mfd/schemas/PWG-SM2-Latest1.zip
      - updated for Power Model and Copy service

Open Action Items

See ACTION above

Next OP Conference Calls

(1) December 2009 - Japan/US/Europe - Quarterly OP Meeting

    - Note
      - PWG Meeting on Tuesday-Thursday 8-10 December 2009 in Austin, TX

    - Monday 30 November 2009, Evening
      - US
        3pm in San Francisco - US PST (Pacific Standard Time)
        4pm in Colorado - US MST (Mountain Standard Time)
        5pm in Chicago - US CST (Central Standard Time)
        6pm in New York - US EST (Eastern Standard Time)

    - Tuesday 1 December 2009, Morning
      - Europe
        12am in Berlin - CET (Central European Time)
      - Japan
        8am in Tokyo - JDT (Japan Standard Time)

    * Main Number (Till Kamppeter, LF, leader)
      International: +1-218-936-7999
      Access Code:   491659#

(2) December 2009 - US/Europe - Monthly OP Meeting

    - Note
      - PWG Meeting on Tuesday-Thursday 8-10 December 2009 in Austin, TX

    - Tuesday 15 December 2009, 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: +1-218-936-7999
      Access Code:   491659#

(3) January 2010 - US/Europe - Monthly OP Meeting

    - Tuesday 5 January 2010, 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: +1-218-936-7999
      Access Code:   491659#