OP Monthly US|Europe Minutes

OP Monthly US|Europe Minutes - 1 April 2014

Meeting called to order by Ira McDonald at 1pm US Eastern 1 April 2014. Minutes taken by Ira McDonald. Recording of this conference call will be archived at:

    http://www.openprinting.org/download/meetingnotes/op-telecons/
      OP-Meeting-20140401.mp3

Attendees

Till Kamppeter (Canonical) - Open Printing Manager
Ira McDonald (High North) - Open Printing Chair

Agenda

(1) *** NEW Date/Venue - 2014 Joint PWG / Open Printing Summit *** (Ira)
*** Change on your calendar ***

- Joint PWG/OPS in Toronto, Canada (hotel venue) - 12-15 August 2014
  - http://www.pwg.org/chair/meeting-info/meetings.html

- ACTION - Ira - send hotel venue in Toronto in August to OP, OP Japan,
  and OP Summit mailing lists after PWG Steering Committee decision
  - OPEN

- OP Summit topics from 2013
  - OP Plenary
  - CUPS Plenary
  - OP - Print Clients
  -- CUPS filters
  -- GNOME printing
  -- Mobile printing
  - OP - Color Management
  - OP - Ghostscript
  - OP - Print Drivers

(2) LF Collaboration Summit in Napa Valley, CA - 26-28 March 2014 (Till)
http://events.linuxfoundation.org/events/collaboration-summit

- Linux Standard Base (LSB) on Thursday 27 March 9am US Pacific
  - Till - No session for printing topics - did not call in

- ACTION - Ira - send comments on Till's list to Jeff of LSB topics
  - OPEN

(3) IPP over USB (Ira/Till)

- USB-IF IPP over USB Rev 1.0 - December 2012 (Ira)
  - http://www.usb.org/developers/devclass_docs/IPP.zip

  - Ira - started design discussion on Printing Architecture

  - Till - added GSoC 2014 project proposal (see GSoC below)

  - Till - Daniel Dressler approved as GSoC student

  - Ira - Daniel Dressler has received an IPP over USB printer from HP
    (thanks to Smith Kennedy for expediting)

(4) IPP Everywhere Self-Certification (Ira)

- ftp://ftp.pwg.org/pub/pwg/ipp/wd/wd-ippeveselfcert10-20140124-rev.pdf
  - PWG reviewed on 5 February 2014

- Schedule - live PWG web site support by end-of-May
  - PWG discussion on 31 March 2014 at IPP WG telecon

- PWG IPP Everywhere Self-Certification v1.0
  - Manufacturers run test suites (ipptool and ippfind)
  - Manufacturers submit test results to PWG web page
  - PWG auditors verify test results
  - PWG auditors send confirmation and license form to manufacturers
  - Manufacturers send signed license forms (for PWG Logo) to IEEE-ISTO

- PWG IPP Everywhere Test Tools for Self-Certification
  - ipptool - IPP Everywhere print protocol - Linux/Mac OSX/Windows
  - ippfind - IPP Everywhere Bonjour discovery - Linux/Mac OSX/Windows

(5) CUPS and CUPS Filters (Till)

- CUPS Filters v1.0.50 released (Till)
  - No significant new features:
    - security fix will shortly become v1.0.51
    - bug fixes in PostScript

- CUPS
  - Till - Avahi patch accepted upstream
    - will be in CUPS 1.7.2

(6) Google Summer of Code 2014 (Till)
http://www.google-melange.com/gsoc/events/google/gsoc2014


- GSoC 2014 Schedule

  - DONE - 3-14 February - mentoring organizations apply
    - Till - applied for Linux Foundation

  - DONE - 24 February - GSoC approves mentoring organizations
    - Till - Linux Foundation was approved as mentoring organization

  - Interim - students discuss project ideas w/ mentoring organizations

  - DONE - 10-21 March - students apply
    - Till - series of applications for GSoC projects

  - Interim - mentoring organizations review and rank student proposals

  - 7 April - mentoring organizations request slots in Melange profile

  - 21 April - GSoC approves students with assigned projects/mentors

  - Interim - students get to know mentors, read documentation

  - 19 May - students start coding

  - 27 June - mid-term evaluations deadline

  - 11 August - suggested 'pencils down' date

  - 18 August - final 'pencils down' date

  - 22 August - final evaluations deadline

  - 25 August - GSoC 2014 results announced

- GSoC 2014 OP projects with students (Till)

  - IPP over USB for Linux
    - for IPP Everywhere on USB / embedded web servers on USB
    - (USB-IF spec, 5 December 2012)
    - mentors - James Cloos, Till Kamppeter, Ira McDonald
    - student - Daniel Dressler (has IPP over USB printer from HP)

  - Color Management Printing extension to CUPS
    - enhance CUPS for color mgmt
    - continuation of GSoC 2013 project
    - mentors - Till Kamppeter
    - student - Joseph Simon

- GSoC 2014 OP projects without students (Till)

  - GTK Print Dialog
    - new backend for driverless printing for mobile
    - mentors - Till Kamppeter
    - student - no applications

  - PPD Generator for driverless printing for mobile
    - poll capabilities from printer via IPP and generate a PPD file
    - mentors - Till Kamppeter
    - student - no applications

  - Add rastertopdf to CUPS Filters (converts PWG Raster to PDF)
    - for IPP Everywhere (PWG 5100.14-2013) support
    - mentors - Till Kamppeter, Tobias Hoffman (TBD)
    - student - no applications

  - Add MuPDF support to CUPS Filters (lightweight PDF renderer)
    - for a lightweight mobile printing stack
    - modify all filters which need a PDF renderer
      (pdftops, pdftoraster, pdftoijs, pdftoopvp, perhaps also pdftopdf)
    - mentors - Till Kamppeter, Tobias Hoffman, MuPDF developers (TBD)
    - student - no applications

  - Add printer output backends to MuPDF
    - for mobile printing
    - mentors - Till Kamppeter, Artifex MuPDF developers (TBD)
    - student - no applications

  - Improve pdftopvp filter (remove copied Poppler code, unstable APIs)
    - for stable Open Printing Vector support (especially in Japan)
    - improve Poppler interface, if possible
    - add support for Ghostscript and MuPDF
    - mentors - Till Kamppeter, Koji Otani
    - student - no applications

  - Add PWG Job Ticket backend to libJTAPI (OP Job Ticket API)
    - for IPP Everywhere (PWG 5100.14-2013) support
    - read/write PWG Print Job Ticket (PWG 5108.7-2012)
    - support future translation to/from JDF and other ticket formats
    - mentors - Till Kamppeter, Ira McDonald
    - student - no applications

  - Improve Foomatic PPD generation capabilities
    - option setting conflicts (e.g., no duplex with transparencies)
    - printer compatibility classes (extension to XML database)
    - mentors - Till Kamppeter
    - student - no applications

  - Modularize built-in GhostScript drivers into an OPVP driver
    - allow built-in GhostScript drivers to use multiple renderers
    - mentors - Till Kamppeter, Hin-Tak Leung
    - student - no applications

(7) PWG News (Ira)

- IETF IPP over HTTPS and 'ipps' URI Scheme - working draft
  - REQUIRED for IPP Everywhere
  - ftp://ftp.pwg.org/pub/pwg/ipp/wd/
    draft-mcdonald-ipps-uri-scheme-10-20140330.pdf
    - PWG reviewed on 31 March 2014 - updates from HP comments

- IETF LDAP Printer Schema - working draft
  - RECOMMENDED for IPP Everywhere
  - ftp://ftp.pwg.org/pub/pwg/ipp/wd/
    draft-mcdonald-ldap-printer-schema-07-20140313.pdf
    - PWG reviewed on 31 March 2014 - updates from IETF Apps Area review

- HCD Health Assessment TNC Binding - Prototype draft
  - ftp://ftp.pwg.org/pub/pwg/ids/wd/wd-idstnc10-20140225-rev.pdf
    - PWG reviewed on 3 March 2014

- IPP Scan Service (Push/Pull Network Scan) - Prototype draft
  - ftp://ftp.pwg.org/pub/pwg/ipp/wd/wd-ippscan10-20140227-rev.pdf
    - PWG reviewed prototype report on 31 March 2014

- IPP Shared Infrastructure Extensions (Cloud Print) - Prototype draft
  - ftp://ftp.pwg.org/pub/pwg/ipp/wd/wd-ippsix10-20140226-rev.pdf
    - PWG reviewed on 5 February 2014

- IPP Implementors Guide v2.0 (Best Practices) - Interim draft
  - ftp://ftp.pwg.org/pub/pwg/ipp/wd/wd-ippig20-20140124-rev.pdf
    - PWG reviewed on 5 February 2014

- IPP Finishings 2.0 - Interim draft
  - ftp://ftp.pwg.org/pub/pwg/ipp/wd/wd-ippfinishings20-20140116-rev.pdf
   - PWG reviewed on 13 January 2014

(8) Upcoming Standards Conferences (Ira)

- PWG Meeting in Cupertino, CA (hosted by Apple) - 13-15 May 2014
  - http://www.pwg.org/chair/meeting-info/may_2014_cupertino.html

- Trusted Computing Group in Barcelona, Spain - 23-27 June 2014
  - http://www.trustedcomputinggroup.org/

- Joint PWG/OPS in Toronto, Canada (hotel venue) - 12-15 August 2014
  - http://www.pwg.org/chair/meeting-info/meetings.html
  - *** Change on your calendar ***

- Trusted Computing Group in New Orleans, LA - 20-24 October 2014
  - http://www.trustedcomputinggroup.org/

- PWG Meeting in Waltham, MA (hosted by Conexant) - 4-6 November 2014
  - http://www.pwg.org/chair/meeting-info/meetings.html

Open Action Items

See 'ACTION' above

Next OP US/Europe Conference Calls

(1) May 2014 - US/Europe - OP Monthly Meeting

    - Note - PWG in Cupertino, CA (hosted by Apple) - 13-15 May 2014

    - NEW DAY & TIME
    - Tuesday 20 May 2014, Daytime
      - US
        10am in San Francisco - US PDT (Pacific Daylight Time)
        11am in Colorado - US MDT (Mountain Daylight Time)
        12pm in Chicago - US CDT (Central Daylight Time)
        1pm in New York - US EDT (Eastern Daylight Time)
      - Europe
        7pm in Berlin - CEST (Central European Summer Time)

    * Main Number (Till Kamppeter, LF, leader)
      International: +1-619-326-2730 (new number)
      Access Code:   491659#

(2) June 2014 - US/Europe - OP Monthly Meeting (tentative)

    - NEW DAY & TIME
    - Tuesday 3 June 2014, Daytime
      - US
        10am in San Francisco - US PDT (Pacific Daylight Time)
        11am in Colorado - US MDT (Mountain Daylight Time)
        12pm in Chicago - US CDT (Central Daylight Time)
        1pm in New York - US EDT (Eastern Daylight Time)
      - Europe
        7pm in Berlin - CEST (Central European Summer Time)

    * Main Number (Till Kamppeter, LF, leader)
      International: +1-619-326-2730 (new number)
      Access Code:   491659#