Meeting called to order by Ira McDonald at 6pm US EDT 5 January 2009. Minutes taken by Ira McDonald.

Recording of this conference call is archived at:
  http://www.openprinting.org/download/meetingnotes/op-steering-committee/
in the file:
  OP-SC-Meeting-20090105.mp3

Norm Jacobs (Sun)
Till Kamppeter (Linux Foundation) - Manager, Open Printing
George Liu (Ricoh)
Ira McDonald (High North) - Chair, Open Printing
Glen Petrie (Epson)

Mihara-san (Fuji Xerox)
Ogasawara-san (Ricoh)
Shida-san (Canon)
Toratani-san (Canon)

• (1) Google Summer of Code - Till

      - Discussion
        - No new project status
        - Fairly good results - Till
        - Linux Foundation has been reimbursed by GSoC for completions
        - Web interface for OP Admin apparently not to be completed - Till
  

• (2) Common Printing Dialog - Till

      - Lars is patching standard print dialogs (Gnome, etc.)
        to invoke CPD
      - Preview interface causes application dependency
      - DBUS interface for CPD is the solution to application independence
        - Lars now working on the DBUS interface
      - Lively discussion around possible proliferation of print dialogs
  

• (3) Foomatic 4.0 - Till

      - Last bugs were fixed right before December holidays
      - Documentation will shortly be finished
      - Release within two weeks
  

• (4) PDF Workflow - Till

      - Shifting toward use of Ghostscript (rather than Poppler) - Till
      - PDF workflow may not be appropriate for handheld systems - Glen
      - Where is the rendering (rasterization) going to occur? - Glen
      - Need single-frame CPD and zero-frame CPD (app directed) - Glen
  

• (5) GSoC 2009 - March submission deadline - Till

      - Need topics identified by mid-February in order to prepare
      - Target of 5 or more GSoC 2009 interns for OP projects
      - Lars will volunteer as a mentor
  

• (6) Open Printing Summit - 8-10 April 2009 - San Francisco - Till

      - Open Printing Summit during LF Collaboration Summit
      - Session on planning on Wednesday 8 April
      - Sessions should be scheduled with Desktop and Driver Backports
      - Session on GSoC 2009
  

• See 'ACTION' in agenda topics above

• (1) February 2009 SC meeting

      - Monday 2 February 2009, Evening
        - US
          3pm in San Francisco - US PDT (Pacific Daylight Time)
          4pm in Colorado - US MDT (Mountain Daylight Time)
          5pm in Chicago - US CDT (Central Daylight Time)
          6pm in New York - US EDT (Eastern Daylight Time)
  
      - Tuesday 3 February 2009, Morning
        - Europe
          12am in Berlin - CET (Central European Time)
        - Japan
          8am in Tokyo - JST (Japan Standard Time)
  
      * Main Number (Till Kamppeter, LF, leader)
        International: +1-218-936-7999
        Access Code:   491659#
  

• (2) March 2009 SC meeting - tentative

      - Monday 2 March 2009, Evening
        - US
          3pm in San Francisco - US PDT (Pacific Daylight Time)
          4pm in Colorado - US MDT (Mountain Daylight Time)
          5pm in Chicago - US CDT (Central Daylight Time)
          6pm in New York - US EDT (Eastern Daylight Time)
  
      - Tuesday 3 March 2009, Morning
        - Europe
          12am in Berlin - CET (Central European Time)
        - Japan
          8am in Tokyo - JST (Japan Standard Time)