OP SC Minutes - 16 July 2007

Linux Foundation (merger of OSDL and FSG) Open Printing Steering Committee Conference Call Minutes 16 July 2007

Meeting called to order by Ira McDonald at 7pm US EDT 16 July 2007. Minutes taken by Ira McDonald.

Attendees

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

Absentees

Osamu Mihara (Fuji Xerox)
Yasumasa Toratani (Canon)
Note: Email on OP Japan activities from Toratani-san - see below.

Agenda

(0) Other Printing News

    - Discussion
      - Till - Important shift from ESP Ghostscript to GPL Ghostscript
      - Norm (and Toratani-san, at Summit) - Need CJK patches in Ghostscript
      - Till - Photos from LF Summit are posted at website

(1) Review minutes of last OP SC meeting - ftp://ftp.pwg.org/pub/pwg/fsg/steering_committee/ in the files OP-SC-Minutes-20070606.htm/pdf
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    - Discussion
      - approved as written
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(2) Validation Suite for Printers and Print Drivers for Linux - Glen

    - Discussion
      - Shida-san - What locale and OS version? (e.g., Japanese distro)
      - Till - What CUPS version?
      - Till - What Ghostscript version with what build options?
      - Shida-san, Till - GS patches for vertical CJK from Toratani-san
      - Shida-san - What fonts are installed?
      - Till - Test coverage?
        - Installed OS, test app, GS, CUPS/LPRng/etc., drivers?
      - Glen - Driver type?
        - Raster, OPVP, SVG, etc.
      - Shida-san - What distro? (e.g., RedHat) - examine tar ball
      - Till - Is all printing infrastructure present?
      - Ira - Target Users for OP Validation Tools
        - Manufacturers - validate their PPDs and drivers and scripts
        - Distributions - regression test/validate their build CDs
        - ISVs - validate their applications (e.g., Scribus) for printing
        - End Users - validate/debug installed print drivers/environment

    - Proposal
      - Base Validation Suite - North American - English - Glen

    - ACTION
      - OP Arch - Investigate scope and feasibility of validation suite
        - Prepare a white paper before Printing Summit in September
      - Ira - Continue to champion OP Validation Suite project
        - Edit OP Validation Suite white paper

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

    - Note
      - Moved two weeks later at request of Ecole Polytechnique
    - Printing Summit - Montreal, Canada - 24-27 September 2007
      - Ira working with Louis Desjardins and Benoit Ozell
      - Ecole Polytechnique - professors/students/IT will attend
      http://www.polymtl.ca/inter/en/index.php (English home page)
    - IEEE/ISTO PWG - Montreal, Canada - 27-28 September 2007
      - Joint Plenary IEEE-ISTO PWG / LF OP - Thursday 27 September
      - PWG working group meetings - Thursday/Friday 27-28 September
    - Discussion
      - Till - all invitations have been sent
      - Ira - large (72 seats) and small (24 seats) rooms are reserved
      - Till - photos of conference rooms are linked from Printing Summit
      - Ira - asked Louis Desjardins and Benoit Ozell to recommend hotel
      - Ira - ISTO online PS/PWG registration page to be available soon
      - Till - first PS planning teleconference - Thursday 26 July

(4) Report on Open Printing Japan activities - Toratani-san

    - Linux Foundation Collaboration Summit
      - Reviewed LF meeting slides at OP Japan f2f meeting on 28 June

    - OPVP/1.0 (PDAPI)
    ftp://ftp.pwg.org/pub/pwg/fsg/vector/pdapi-spec-1.0rc4-20070614.odt
    ftp://ftp.pwg.org/pub/pwg/fsg/vector/pdapi-spec-1.0rc4-20070614.pdf
      - Received several comments to the OPVP/1.0 spec from Saitoh-san
        of NEC software.  The comments include many good suggestions to
        make clarify the specs.  Reviewed at OP Japan f2f meeting.
      - Continuing the OPVP/1.0 driver test, and found two bugs.
        These bugs were posted to the ML as well as Source Forge bug
        tracking system.  New OPVP/1.0 source code available soon.

(5) Report on Open Printing US activities - Glen

    - OP IJS/1.0
      - Glen - Rewrite and rename to "Open Printing IJS/1.0"
      - Glen - Issue - restrict to MIT that MUST NOT become GPL
      - Glen - Use OP IJS API in OP Embedded Printing Solution testing

    - OP Embedded Printing Solution (aka Thin-Thread)
      - Glen - Need to list all development activities - duration TBD
      - Glen - Recent interest from VxWorks in small footprint solution

Open Action Items

See 'ACTION' in agenda topics above

Next OP Steering Committee Teleconferences

(1) Eighth 2007 SC meeting - tentative

    - Monday 6 August 2007, Evening
      - US
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        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 7 August 2007, Morning
      - Europe/Japan
        12am in Coimbra, Portugal - WEST (Western European Summer Time)
        8am in Japan - JST (Japan Standard Time)

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(2) Ninth 2007 SC meeting - tentative

    - Note
      - moved to second week of September to avoid conflict w/ US Labor Day

    - Monday 10 September 2007, Evening
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    - Tuesday 11 September 2007, Morning
      - Europe/Japan