OP SC Minutes - 6 August 2007

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

Meeting called to order by Ira McDonald at 7pm US EDT 6 August 2007. Minutes taken by Ira McDonald.

Attendees

Absentees

Agenda

(0) Network Printer Discovery - Norm Jacobs

    - Standard MIB for IEEE 1284 Device ID
      - PWG 5107.1-2005 - Port Monitor MIB - ppmPrinterIEEE1284DeviceId

    - Vendor private MIBs for IEEE 1284 Device ID
      - Norm - no standard set of properties
      - Norm - no standard values for Command set property

(1) Review minutes of last OP SC meeting - ftp://ftp.pwg.org/pub/pwg/fsg/steering_committee/ in the files OP-SC-Minutes-20070716.htm/pdf
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(2) OP Validation for Printers, Print Drivers, and Print Systems

    - Approaches?
      - C tools, scripts, XML profiles, ???
      - Need volunteers

    - ACTION
      - OP Japan - need status of this proposed project - see below

(3) Printing Summit and PWG meetings in September 2007

    - Printing Summit - Montreal, Canada - 24-27 September 2007
      - Ecole Polytechnique
      http://www.polymtl.ca/inter/en/index.php (English home page)

    - IEEE/ISTO PWG / LF OPWG Collaboration
      - Joint Plenary - Thursday am 27 September

    - IEEE/ISTO PWG - Montreal, Canada - 26-28 September 2007
      - PWG WG sessions - Wednesday pm/Thursday pm/Friday am

    - Discussion
      - Registration page is up and running
      - Logistics for meeting rooms and preferred hotel all complete
      - No open issues at this time

(4) Report on Open Printing Japan activities

    - See
      ftp://ftp.pwg.org/pub/pwg/fsg/vector/pdapi-spec-1.0rc4-20070614.odt
      ftp://ftp.pwg.org/pub/pwg/fsg/vector/pdapi-spec-1.0rc4-20070614.pdf

    - PDAPI Spec
      - Discussed and clarify a few OPVP 1.0 function spec.

    - PDAPI Testing
      - Continuing testing of the new OPVP 1.0 glue code with the
      new drivers, and found a few bugs in the glue code caused by
      several monochrome or mask format. We've already fixed the
      bugs and uploaded the latest code on the sourceforge.jp site.
    http://svn.sourceforge.jp/cgi-bin/viewcvs.cgi/gdevopvp/trunk/src/?root=opfc

    - CUPS PDF Filter
      Uploaded the CUPS PDF filter code on the sourceforge.jp site.
      http://svn.sourceforge.jp/cgi-bin/viewcvs.cgi/?root=opfc

    - Validation
      - OP Japan team discussed issue. OP Japan will prepare a proposal
      and discuss it at the next f2f meeting (?OP Japan or OP PS?).

    - Source of status
      - Note from Toratani to Printing Architecture mailing list

(5) Report on OP Embedded Print Solution - Glen Petrie

    - See files in new OPEP directory tree
      ftp://ftp.pwg.org/pub/pwg/openprinting/embedded/opepCurrent
    - See recent notes from Glen to Printing-Architecture list
    - Discuss comments, naming conventions, directory structure, etc.

    - Discussion
      - Ira - suggest using short integer strings to preserve APIs
      - Glen - look into macros to change API header behavior

Open Action Items

See 'ACTION' in agenda topics above

Next OP Steering Committee Teleconferences

(1) Ninth 2007 SC meeting - tentative

    - Note
      - moved to second week of September to avoid conflict w/ US Labor Day

    - Monday 10 September 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 11 September 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) Tenth 2007 SC meeting - tentative

    - Note
      - first week of October - just after Montreal Printing Summit

    - Monday 1 October 2007, Evening
      - US

    - Tuesday 2 October 2007, Morning
      - Europe/Japan