Meeting called to order by Till Kamppeter at 12pm US EST 6 March 2013. Minutes taken by Ira McDonald. Recording of this conference call will be archived at:

    http://www.openprinting.org/download/meetingnotes/op-telecons/
      OP-Meeting-20130306.mp3

Attendees

• Till Kamppeter (Linux Foundation / Canonical) - Open Printing Manager
• Ira McDonald (High North) - Open Printing Chair
• Glen Petrie (Epson)
• Lars Uebernickel (Canonical)

Agenda

• (0) Ubuntu News (Till K)

  - Switched from strict 6-month releases to a new model
    - Still an LTS (long-term support for 5 years) every two years
      - Next Ubuntu LTS in April 2014
  
  - Rolling Ubuntu releases
    - Development branch maintained w/ higher level of stability
    - ISO releases every month
  
  - New approach to Ubuntu Developers Summit (UDS)
    - Former 2 face-to-face UDS meetings per year canceled
    - Replaced by 4 virtual UDS video conferences per year
  
  - Ubuntu focus on mobile, tablets, phones
    - IPP Everywhere printers will be supported on mobile/desktop Ubuntu
  
  - See details in Till's note to Printing Architecture mailing list
  

• (1) Google Summer of Code (Till K)
  http://www.google-melange.com/gsoc/homepage/google/gsoc2013
  http://www.h-online.com/open/news/item/
  Google-Summer-of-Code-2013-announced-1802426.html

  - GSoC 2013 Schedule
    - 18-29 March - project proposals by mentors
  
    - 8 April - GSoC approved mentoring organizations list
  
    - 9-21 April - Students discuss GSoC projects
  
    - 22 April to 3 May - Students apply for GSoC projects
  
    - end-of-May - GSoC approved projects list
  
    - 17 June - GSoC coding begins
  
  - OP project ideas for GSoC
  
    - JTAPI next generation
      - YES - TBD scope - see Daniel's notes
  
    - CUPS Browse for CUPS 1.5 compatibility
      - YES - extensions for IPP printers w/out IPP Everywhere
      - DONE - completed by Tim Waugh (RedHat) and Till (cups-browsed)
  
    - Mobile Linux Printing
      - NO - need a lightweight print client spec
        - talk about at OPS?
        - battery and RAM friendly - small footprint
      - NO - extensions for PCL and PostScript - technically difficult
  

  
  ACTION - All - send email w/ GSoC 2013 project ideas - one paragraph
  - OPEN

• (2) Joint PWG/Open Printing Summit (Till K)
  http://www.pwg.org/chair/meeting-info/may_2013_cupertino.html

  - Topics
    - Ghostscript, CUPS, color management, IPP Everywhere, cloud
    - Mobile topics?
  

  
  ACTION - Till - send OPS invitations and ask speakers for their topics
  - OPEN

• (3) Upcoming Conferences

  - Ubuntu Developer Summit in SF, CA - 6-10 May 2013
    - http://uds.ubuntu.com/event/
  
  - Joint PWG/Open Printing Summit - 14-17 May 2013
    - confirmed by Mike Sweet, Apple, and PWG Steering Committee
  
  - Trusted Computing Group in Dublin, Ireland 24-28 June 2013
    - http://www.trustedcomputinggroup.org/
  

Open Action Items

• See 'ACTION' above

Next OP Conference Calls

• (1) April 2013 - US/Europe - OP Monthly Meeting

      - Wednesday 3 April 2013, Daytime
        - US
          9am in San Francisco - US PDT (Pacific Daylight Time)
          10am in Colorado - US MDT (Mountain Daylight Time)
          11am in Chicago - US CDT (Central Daylight Time)
          12pm in New York - US EDT (Eastern Daylight Time)
        - Europe
          6pm in Berlin - CEST (Central European Summer Time)
  
      * Main Number (Till Kamppeter, LF, leader)
        International: +1-619-326-2730 (new number)
        Access Code:   491659#
  

• (2) May 2013 - US/Europe - OP Monthly Meeting (tentative)

      - Note - 1 May 2013 is a holiday in Europe
  
      - Note - Ubuntu Developer Summit in SF, CA - 6-10 May 2013
  
      - Wednesday 8 May 2013, Daytime
        - US
          9am in San Francisco - US PDT (Pacific Daylight Time)
          10am in Colorado - US MDT (Mountain Daylight Time)
          11am in Chicago - US CDT (Central Daylight Time)
          12pm in New York - US EDT (Eastern Daylight Time)
        - Europe
          6pm in Berlin - CEST (Central European Summer Time)
  
      * Main Number (Till Kamppeter, LF, leader)
        International: +1-619-326-2730 (new number)
        Access Code:   491659#