OP SC Minutes - 14 May 2007

Linux Foundation (merger of OSDL and FSG) Open Printing Steering Committee Conference Call Minutes 14 May 2007

Meeting called to order by Ira McDonald at 7pm US EDT 14 May 2007. Minutes taken by Ira McDonald.

Attendees

Norm Jacobs (Sun)
Till Kamppeter (Linux Foundation)
Ira McDonald (High North) - Linux Foundation Open Printing Chair
Glen Petrie (Epson)
Keisho Shida (Canon)

Absentees

Osamu Mihara (Fuji Xerox)
Yasumasa Toratani (Canon)
Note - email status for OP/Japan from Toratani-san is below.

Agenda

(0) Other printing news

    - Till - Ghostscript report
      - merger of ESP and GPL Ghostscript now underway
      - frequent distribution-independent binaries for Linux on Intel
      - fixes for many PDF handling problems
      - third-party drivers need cleanup for portability issues

(1) Review minutes of last OP SC meeting - ftp://ftp.pwg.org/pub/pwg/fsg/steering_committee/ in the files OP-SC-Minutes-20070402.htm/pdf
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    - Discussion
      - approved as written
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(2) Printing Dialog Open Usability face-to-face meeting in June 2007

    - LinuxTag 2007 in Berlin - 30 May to 2 June 2007
      http://www.linuxtag.org/2007/en/

    - Open Usability meeting on Printing Dialog at LinuxTag 2007
      - Till - LF will provide some support for the meeting
      - Till - Celeste will NOT attend DAM4 w/ Open Usability results

    - Next Steps
      - ACTION
        - Till - find an alternate Open Usability person for LF Summit

(3) Open Printing Linux Foundation Summit face-to-face in June 2007

    - See
      http://www.linux-foundation.org/en/
        Agenda_and_Schedule - LF Summit Plenary agenda and schedule
        Desktop_Architects_Meeting_4 - DAM4 agenda and schedule
        OpenPrinting/LFSummitMountainView2007 - OP agenda/call-in info

    - LF Summit - Mountain View, CA (Google) - 13-15 June 2007
      - Till - posted proposed Open Printing agenda
      - Till, Ira, Glen, and Wendy attending
      - Toratani-san will be attending
      - Norm will not be attending

    - Next Steps
      - ACTION
        - ALL - review and comment on proposed Open Printing agenda

(4) Printing Summit and PWG face-to-face in September 2007

    - Printing Summit - Montreal, Canada - 10-13 September 2007
      - Ira and Till - working on finding a university site
      - Ira - email reply received from Louis Desjardins on 14 May 2007
        - Ecole Polytechnique de Montreal
          http://www.polymtl.ca/inter/en/index.php (English home page)

    - IEEE/ISTO PWG - Montreal, Canada - 13-14 September 2007
      - Joint Plenary IEEE-ISTO PWG / LF OP - Thursday 13 September
      - PWG working group meetings - Thursday/Friday 13-14 September

    - Next Steps
      - ACTION
        - Ira - talk on phone this week with Louis Desjardins (U of M)
        - Till - propose tentative agenda and breakout sessions
        - Ira - coordinate registration with PWG Steering Committee

(5) Report on Open Printing Japan activities

    - PDAPI spec - revised OPVP 1.0 document RC2 has been posted at
    ftp://ftp.pwg.org/pub/pwg/fsg/vector/pdapi-spec-1.0rc2-070511-1.odt
    ftp://ftp.pwg.org/pub/pwg/fsg/vector/pdapi-spec-1.0rc2-070511-1.pdf

    - PDAPI spec
      - OP/Japan has scheduled a f2f meeting to discuss several
        ambiguous/TBD specs marked in the document

    - PDAPI implementation
      - already implemented the ghostscript "opvp" driver which conforms
        to OPVP 1.0 RC2 spec
      - finished the sample driver test by Fuji Xerox Printing Systems
      - new "opvp" ghostscript driver also supports the former OPVP v0.2
        spec, but not yet tested
      - former driver test will be done this month

    - CUPS PDF filter implementation
      - project funded by Japan government agency (IPA)

(6) Future directions for Open Printing - 2007 to 2009

    - Discussion
      - Glen - plans for OP Thin-thread
        - discuss at OP Architecture telecons and on mailing list
        - discuss at LF Summit in June

    - Next Steps
      - ACTION
        - Till - add OP Thin-thread to OP agenda for LF Summit
        - OP Arch - write plan to get OP Thin-thread implemented in 2007
        - OP Arch - write plan to get JTAPI implemented in 2007

Open Action Items

See 'ACTION' in agenda topics above

Next OP Steering Committee Teleconferences

(1) Sixth 2007 SC meeting

    - Note
      - moved back to first week in June to avoid conflict w/ LF Summit

    - Monday 4 June 2007, Evening
        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 5 June 2007, Morning
        12am in Coimbra, Portugal - WEST (Western European Summer Time)
        8am in Japan - JST (Japan Standard Time)

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(2) Seventh 2007 SC meeting - tentative

    - Note
      - moved to second week of July to avoid conflict w/ US 4th of July

    - Monday 9 July 2007, Evening
      - US

    - Tuesday 10 July 2007, Morning
      - Europe/Japan