OP Conference Call Minutes

Open Printing Conference Call Minutes

Meeting called to order by Ira McDonald at 11am US EDT 7 July 2009. Minutes taken by Ira McDonald.
Recording of this conference call is archived at:

    http://www.openprinting.org/download/meetingnotes/op-telecons/
      OP-Meeting-20090707.mp3 (19 MB - 54 minutes)

Attendees

Agenda

(1) Common Printing Dialog - report by Till

    - See new CPD specs from Peter Sikking
      http://wiki.openusability.org/printing/index.php/
        Level_2_Dialog_zones_and_content
      http://wiki.openusability.org/printing/index.php/
        Level_3_Dialog_zones_and_content
    - Meeting about new CPD specs from Peter Sikking
      - 2 weeks ago in Berlin w/ Till and Lars
    - Dialog layout changed
      - expand to the *right* for dialog details
    - Copies option
      - always present, under the Preview
    - Printer manufacturer icon and model
      - Left side of queue selection if specified in PPD
    - New PPD extension soon by Till
      - Description for each Quick Setting
    - Level 3 changing options
      - Options set or cleared will be briefly highlighted/blinked
    - Frames in Level 2 and Level 3
      - Printer-dependent features only surrounded by color outline
    - Frequent IRC meetings in last week w/ Peter Sikking
      - Discussing changes and progress
    - Level 3 page range selection
      - new widget for page range selection
    - Document name - very important to user
      - Glen - not displayed in dialog
      - Till and Glen - agreed should be in dialog headline

(2) Google Summer of Code - report by Till

    - Project - Mentor
      - status comments
    - JTAPI - Glen
      - not active - student Paul Victor quit
    - Application Patching for CPD - Lars
      - not active - student Svilen Kanev quit
    - GTK+ Support for CPDAPI - Lars
      - student Per Hermannson
        - custom options now working - was waiting for CPD design
    - QT Support for CPDAPI - Lars
      - student Alexander Wauck
        - restructuring last year's code - will add custom options
    - GTK+ Patching so all GTK apps use CPDAPI - Lars
      - no recent progress - Lars busy at many meetings
    - CPD Preview - Lars
      - no recent progress - Lars busy at many meetings
    - OP Database Browser conversion to MySQL-based - Till
      - student Kevin Seitz
        - scripts are work-in-progress
    - OP Database Driver Upload from Vendor - Till
      - student Subhankar Sett - work-in-progress
        - design of database is complete - now implementing in Web app
    - Printer Config Backend in Oryanos - mentored by OpenICC
      - student Joe Simon
        - no recent news - Till will inquire to OpenICC
    - GSoC mid-term evaluations - due by Monday 13 July
      - Both mentors and students to complete surveys

(3) PWG News - Glen and Ira

    - PWG Resource Service approved as PWG Candidate Std last week
      - can upload/download fonts/forms/logos and also firmware
    - PWG IPP/2.0 to PWG Formal Vote in July
      - defines new IPP versions 2.0 (workgroup) and 2.1 (enterprise)
    - PWG IPP Printer State Extensions (PSX) to PWG Formal Vote in July
      - all alerts from Printer MIB now visible in IPP
    - Open Printing PPD Extensions
      - Glen - should identify IPP version support
        - For new IPP versions 2.0 and 2.1
      - George - should identify supported and preferred print protocols
        - Like PWG Port Monitor MIB

Open Action Items

See ACTION above

Next OP Conference Calls

(1) August 2009 - US/Europe OP Meeting

    - Tuesday 4 August 2009, Daytime
      - US
        8am in San Francisco - US PDT (Pacific Daylight Time)
        9am in Colorado - US MDT (Mountain Daylight Time)
        10am in Chicago - US CDT (Central Daylight Time)
        11am in New York - US EDT (Eastern Daylight Time)
      - Europe
        5pm in Berlin - CEST (Central European Summer Time)

    * Main Number (Till Kamppeter, LF, leader)
      International: +1-218-936-7999
      Access Code:   491659#

(2) September 2009 - Japan/US/Europe OP Meeting - tentative

    - Monday 7 September 2009, Evening
      - US
        4pm in San Francisco - US PDT (Pacific Daylight Time)
        5pm in Colorado - US MDT (Mountain Daylight Time)
        6pm in Chicago - US CDT (Central Daylight Time)
        7pm in New York - US EDT (Eastern Daylight Time)

    - Tuesday 8 September 2009, Morning
      - Europe
        1am in Berlin - CEST (Central European Summer Time)
      - Japan
        8am in Tokyo - JST (Japan Standard Time)

    * Main Number (Till Kamppeter, LF, leader)
      International: +1-218-936-7999
      Access Code:   491659#