This meeting was announced and chaired by Smith Kennedy.
These minutes were prepared by Ira McDonald with much help from Smith Kennedy.
- Review agenda and state PWG IP Policy - Ira McDonald as minute taker - Revised Agenda: (1) Administrivia (2) Planning for November 2018 PWG F2F (Smith/Ira) (3) Future 2019 PWG/OP F2F schedule - April, May, June? (All) (4) PWG Operations - Status (Smith / Jessica / Mike) (5) PWG and AMSC/ISO liaisons - Status (Paul) (6) PWG / 3MF liaison - Status (Smith) (7) PWG / Mopria liaison - Status (Smith) (8) IPP Everywhere name/logo on Linux OpenPrinting website (Smith / Ira) (9) PWG Officer Job Descriptions - Status (All) (10) Next SC meetings (11) Action Items Review (All)
- IPR declaration - Roll call - Review minutes of SC (24 September 2018) meeting - Approved as posted
- Discussion - Agenda is pretty much readyACTION: 10/08/18 - Smith to announce the November 2018 PWG F2F meeting to the pwg-announce reflector
- Discussion
- Lexington, KY w/ Lexmark host is the plan-of-record
- Smith posted 2019 Joint PWG/OP email right before this call
- Ira proposed 30 April to 2 May 2019 to restore the Joint PWG/OP meeting position in the
annual PWG calendar of many previous years
- Splits the difference between the August and February PWG F2F meetings
- Far enough before end of school year to be easier for Smith
- Alan, Bill, and Paul are good with this new date range
ACTION: 10/08/18 - Smith to check with his people on this date range and, if all is OK, then
update the PWG meeting page to use 30 April to 2 May for the 2019 Printing Summit dates
- Discussion
- No updates
- Jessica had proposed shifting to a WordPress based site, but Mike and Smith expressed
reservations and skepticism that it could accomplish what we do currently
- We will continue to look for alternative solutions
ACTION: 10/08/18 - Smith to query Jessica periodically about PWG Operations transfer
management to ISTO
- Discussion
- INCITS
- INCITS created an ad-hoc "thing" that is the intermediate stage to creating a US TAG
for new ISO WG
- Paul copied Smith on a message from someone else at HP who is leading the INCITS
intermediate stage
- New ISO WG
- Working to create doc with definition of terms, coming from the computer side rather
than the materials or process control side
- PDF draft has comments in Korean; Paul is requesting comments be in English
- AMSC/ASTM - Concrete Printing
- Tons of activity in the last few days
- They can't test because each printer is using a different dialect of / set of extensions
to G-Code in their CAD plug-ins
- Could they use PWG Safe G-Code?
- Paul is in a flurry of activity monitoring
- AMSC/ISO status for November 2018 PWG F2F
- Ira asked if Paul could start a draft of a Plenary slide deck so that we could review
in more depth and document the current state of activity at next SC call on 10/22/18
- Discussion
- Smith still sending queries to Alexander Oster (Autodesk, 3MF liaison)
- No reply yet from Alexander as to whether the PWG liaison agreement was signed at the
Belfast 3MF Consortium meeting in September 2018
- Discussion
- Smith received Mopria slides from Jeremy Reitz (Xerox, Mopria liaison) for November F2F
- Smith has requested a couple of additions to those Mopria slides
- Technical history of Mopria Tech Spec (derived from Wi-Fi Alliance Wi-Fi Direct
Services Print)
- Scope of the Mopria Tech Spec's feature coverage
- Discussion
- OP has started weekly OP website renovation meetings
- Aveek Basu has put together
- 6 former GS0C 2017/2018 students to volunteer to work on OP website renovation
- A sketch of a site plan (what the main pages should be, etc.)
- PWG IPP Everywhere™ logo will be on the Driverless Printing page
- Lively discussion on whether to use WordPress or something else
- Consensus to use Jekyll for the site instead
- https://jekyllrb.com/
- OP website might be cloud hosted on GitHub Sites
- Live prototype of OP home page by the end of October 2018
- Maybe something to look at November 2018 PWG F2F...
- Discussion - No updates - Smith to get back to thisACTION: 10/08/18 - SC to review PWG Officer Job Descriptions and provide feedback
- SC - Monday 22 October 11am Pacific / 2pm Eastern (tentative) - preliminary Plenary slide review for November F2F - Alan to be absent (on a plane) - SC - Monday 5 November 11am Pacific / 2pm Eastern (tentative) - final slide review for November F2F (14-15 November 2018) - make sure slide drafts have been worked on before this! - Ira to be absent (IEEE 1609 WG meeting in San Diego, CA)
- Discussion - Deferred