OP SC Minutes - 2 June 2008

Open Printing Steering Committee - Conference Call Minutes

Meeting called to order by Ira McDonald at 7pm US EDT 2 June 2008. Minutes taken by Ira McDonald.

Attendees

Agenda

(0) Open Printing News

    - Norm - Foomatic PPD tarball problem
    - Till - to be resolved

(1) Review minutes of last OP SC meeting - Ira McDonald

ftp://ftp.pwg.org/pub/pwg/fsg/steering_committee/OP-SC-Minutes-20080512.htm

    - OP Process/1.0 - needs small update
      - substitute Open Printing for FSG and change icons
      - change icons
    - Discussion
      - Concensus - no change to substance of OP Process/1.0
    - ACTION - Glen Petrie
      - revise Word source and publish new PDF
      - remove any obsolete FSG URLs
      - keep PWG FTP URLs

(2) OP Japan activities status - Toratani-san, et al

    - Brief highlights for planning July Open Printing meeting
    - Otani uploaded PDF Filters package to Source Forge
      - ubuntu 7.10, fedora 7, fedora 8
      - Till - will integrate into Ubuntu
    - CUPS Filters - sent email to Michael Sweet
      - Mike will make a page of the CUPS Filters on cups.org
      - OP Japan waiting for response from Mike
    - GSoC student - pdftoijs and texttopdf filters
      - Till - student is now developing these filters

(3) Open Printing Dialog status - Till Kamppeter

    - Brief highlights for planning July Open Printing meeting
    - Till - pushed forward at Ubuntu Developer Summit in Prague (2 weeks ago)
    - Common Print Dialog
    https://blueprints.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+spec/applications-printing
    - Automatic download of printer drivers
    https://blueprints.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+spec/printerdriverautodownload
    - PDF instead of PostScript as standard print job transfer form
https://blueprints.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+spec/pdf-as-standard-print-job-format
    - Till - found contacts at Ubuntu Summit and Linux Tag for PDF workflow
      - OpenOffice.org and KDE/Qt folks are now informed
      - GNOME/GTK to follow soon
    - Till - Lars Ubernickel is working on the DBUS API for plugging in dialog
    - Till - issue - Printing Dialog API -> PDAPI (already used by OPVP)
      - Ira - suggest Common Print Dialog API -> CPAPI

(4) OP Japan Meeting in July - Toratani-san and Till Kamppeter

https://www.linuxfoundation.org/en/OpenPrinting/LFJapanSymposiumTokyoJuly2008

    - Tuesday 8 July 9:30am-5:00pm - Linux Foundation office in Tokyo
    - Agenda Topics
      - Peter Sikking - Common Print Dialog - demonstration
      - Till Kamppeter - Open Printing Report - Austin Summit, GSoC, PDF, etc.
      - other sessions TBD - face-to-face meeting this week in Japan
    - ACTION - Toratani-san
      - names and companies (not emails) of attendees on Wiki

(5) Tunable Printer Drivers - Norm Jacobs

    - Discussion
      - Glen - scope - what kind of printers?
      - Norm - all - inkjet, laser, etc.
      - No further discussion

(6) Open CIM Printing - Ira McDonald

    - PWG WIMS WG has developed CIM Printing classes (translated Printer MIB)
      - Two implementations needed for DMTF to move from Experimental to Final
    - Rick Landau (Dell, co-editor CIM Printing) - now prototyping
      - can probably release algorithms (but not code) from Dell prototype
    - Nancy Chen (Okidata) - suggests a PWG CIM Printing open source project
      - perhaps some PWG members would fund development?
    - Ira - suggests PWG collaborate with Open Printing
      - Ira would mentor implementors (Ira wrote CIM Printing MOF classes)
    - Till - Open Printing web/wiki support
      - Till could provide infrastructure support (e.g., set up bug tracking)
    - ACTION - Ira
      - write email describing this project and the contacts in PWG and OP
      - do before OP Japan face-to-face meeting this week

Open Action Items

See 'ACTION' in agenda topics above

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(2) July 2008 SC meeting

    - Monday 14 July 2008, Evening
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    - Tuesday 15 July 2008, Morning
      - Europe
        1am in Berlin - CEST (Central European Summer Time)
      - Japan
        8am in Japan - JST (Japan Standard Time)

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(3) August 2008 SC meeting - tentative

    - Monday 4 August 2008, Evening
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    - Tuesday 5 August 2008, Morning
      - Japan/Europe