OP SC Minutes - 6 June 2007

Linux Foundation (merger of OSDL and FSG) Open Printing Architecture and Steering Committee Revised Conference Call Minutes 6 June 2007

Meeting called to order by Ira McDonald at 3pm US EDT 6 June 2007. Minutes taken by Ira McDonald.

Attendees

Norm Jacobs (Sun)
Till Kamppeter (Linux Foundation)
Ira McDonald (High North) - Chair, Open Printing
Glen Petrie (Epson)
Wendy Phillips (Sun)

Absentees

Osamu Mihara (Fuji Xerox)
Keisho Shida (Canon)
Yasumasa Toratani (Canon)
Note - On Monday 4 June, OP Japan SC members were ready to attend our regularly scheduled conference call, but it was cancelled (by Ira) due to unexpected absence of Norm Jacobs and lack of previous planning (by Ira) for an alternate conference number. Toratani-san graciously provided email status of OP Japan activities before our Wedesday 6 June OP Architecture teleconference, which is included below.

Agenda

(1) Review minutes of last OP SC meeting - ftp://ftp.pwg.org/pub/pwg/fsg/steering_committee/OP-SC-Minutes-20070514.htm/pdf
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    - Discussion
      - approved as written
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(2) Printing Dialog Open Usability face-to-face meeting in June 2007 - http://www.linuxtag.org/2007/en/

    - Open Usability - LinuxTag 2007 in Berlin - 30 May to 2 June 2007
      - Till - brief report from meeting - logistics problems
        - Open Usability Printing GUI - selecting options by tags
        - Peter Sikking - will prepare slides and blog w/ screen shots

    - Next Steps
      - ACTION
        - Till - prepare slides soon for LF Summit meeting

(3) Open Printing Linux Foundation Summit face-to-face in June 2007 - http://www.linux-foundation.org/en/OpenPrinting/LFSummitMountainView2007

    - LF Summit - Mountain View, CA (Google) - 13-15 June 2007
      - Till - posted proposed Open Printing agenda
      - Till, Ira, Glen, and Wendy attending
      - Toratani-san will be attending
      - Shida-san will not be attending
      - Norm will not be attending

    - Next Steps
      - ACTION
        - ALL - review and comment on proposed Open Printing agenda

(4) Printing Summit and PWG face-to-face in September 2007

    - Printing Summit - Montreal, Canada - 10-13 September 2007
      http://www.polymtl.ca/inter/en/index.php (English home page)
      - Ecole Polytechnique - professors/students/IT will attend
      - Ira working with Louis Desjardins (coordinator of recent LGM)

    - IEEE/ISTO PWG - Montreal, Canada - 13-14 September 2007
      - Joint Plenary IEEE-ISTO PWG / LF OP - Thursday 13 September
      - PWG working group meetings - Thursday/Friday 13-14 September

    - Next Steps
      - ACTION
        - Till - propose tentative agenda and breakout sessions
        - Ira - follow up Louis Desjardins
        - Ira - coordinate registration with PWG Steering Committee

(5) Report on Open Printing Japan activities

    - PDAPI spec - revised OPVP 1.0 document RC3 has been posted at
    ftp://ftp.pwg.org/pub/pwg/fsg/vector/work-in-progress in the file
    pdapi-spec-1.0rc3-070603-5.odt/pdf
      - Spec is almost fixed except two API, opvpSetLineDash,
        opvpGetLineDash
      - RC4 fill be posted by the LF meeting

    - PDAPI/OPVP implementation
      - will be updated after finishing the RC4 spec
      - found image drawing bugs with OPVP 0.2 driver, and now
        investigating

    - CUPS PDF filter implementation
      - finished, and will be public soon

(6) Future directions for Open Printing - 2007 to 2009

    - Discussion
      - Glen - OP Embedded Client Thin-Thread
        - discuss at OP Architecture telecons and on mailing list

    - Next Steps
      - ACTION
        - OP Arch - write plan to get OP Thin-thread implemented in 2007
        - OP Arch - write plan to get JTAPI implemented in 2007

Open Action Items

See 'ACTION' in agenda topics above

Next OP Steering Committee Teleconferences

(1) Seventh 2007 SC meeting - tentative

    - Note
      - moved to second week of July to avoid conflict w/ US 4th of July

    - Monday 9 July 2007, Evening
      - US
        4pm in San Francisco - US PDT (Pacific Daylight Time)
        5pm in Colorado - US MDT (Mountain Daylight Time)
        6pm in Chicago - US CDT (Central Daylight Time)
        7pm in New York - US EDT (Eastern Daylight Time)

    - Tuesday 10 July 2007, Morning
      - Europe/Japan
        12am in Coimbra, Portugal - WEST (Western European Summer Time)
        8am in Japan - JST (Japan Standard Time)

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(2) Eighth 2007 SC meeting - tentative

    - Note
      - first week of August

    - Monday 6 August 2007, Evening
      - US

    - Tuesday 7 August 2007, Morning
      - Europe/Japan