OP SC Minutes - 10 September 2007

Linux Foundation (merger of OSDL and FSG) Open Printing Steering Committee Conference Call Minutes 10 September 2007

Meeting called to order by Ira McDonald at 7pm US EDT 10 September 2007. Minutes taken by Ira McDonald.

Attendees

Absentees

Agenda

(1) Review minutes of last OP SC meeting - ftp://ftp.pwg.org/pub/pwg/fsg/steering_committee/ in the files OP-SC-Minutes-20070806.htm/pdf
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(2) Report on Open Printing Japan activities

    - See
      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

    - Status - OP Japan face-to-face meeting in Tokyo last week
      - Discussed OPVP 1.0 spec and testing

    - PDAPI Spec
      - OPVP 1.0 spec will be updated as RC5 in time for Montreal

    - PDAPI Testing
      - Test driver developed by FujiXerox and Canon for OPVP 1.0
        - Very good results

    - CUPS PDF Filter
      - Uploaded to Source Forge new CUPS PDF Filter based on Poppler
        (instead of xpdf)
      - Built an RPM package of new CUPS PDF Filter

    - ACTION
      - OP Japan - Presentation in Montreal on testing / compatibility

(3) PDF Workflow and foomatic - Till Kamppeter

    - Till - possible people to work on PDF support in foomatic-rip
      and other PDF workflow
    - Norm - need DTD for foomatic database
    - Ira - should have XSD as well for foomatic database
    - Norm - missing XML header info in current foomatic database
    - Till - conversion tool to new DTD format should be in DB package
    - Norm - would allow access to many validating XML editors

    - ACTION
      - Norm - review current foomatic XML and write a DTD?
      - Ira - review current foomatic XML and write an XSD (XML Schema)?

(4) Report on OP Embedded Print Solution - Glen Petrie

    - See files in new OPEP directory tree
      ftp://ftp.pwg.org/pub/pwg/openprinting/embedded/opepCurrent
    - See recent notes from Glen to Printing-Architecture list
    - Discuss comments, naming conventions, directory structure, etc.

    - Discussion
      - Ira - Glen is now doing pure FSG JTAPI prototype

(5) Printing Summit and PWG meetings in September 2007

    - Printing Summit - Montreal, Canada - 24-27 September 2007
      - Ecole Polytechnique
      http://www.polymtl.ca/inter/en/index.php (English home page)

    - IEEE/ISTO PWG / LF OPWG Collaboration
      - Joint Plenary - Thursday am 27 September

    - IEEE/ISTO PWG - Montreal, Canada - 26-28 September 2007
      - PWG WG sessions - Wednesday pm/Thursday pm/Friday am

    - Discussion
      - 30 people registered for Printing Summit and/or PWG as of today
      - Latest schedule is online at LF OP Printing Summit page
      - Peter Sikking's travel is not funded yet - drop Print UI topic?

    - ACTION
      - OP Japan - Presentation on OPVP 1.0 and PDF Filters
      - Till - Presentation on foomatic and PDF work-in-progress

(6) November Linux Foundation meeting in Japan - Till Kamppeter

    - per Dan Kohn to Till about travel plans
    - Wednesday 31 October through Friday 2 November
    - Open Printing meeting one of the days (probably Friday)

    - ACTION
      - Till - contact Dan Kohn and coordinate plans with OP Japan team

Open Action Items

See 'ACTION' in agenda topics above

Next OP Steering Committee Teleconferences

(1) Tenth 2007 SC meeting

    - Note
      - first week of October - just after Montreal Printing Summit

    - Monday 1 October 2007, 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 2 October 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) Eleventh 2007 SC meeting - tentative

    - Note
      - first week of November
      - Daylight Saving Time ends in Europe 28 October and US 4 November

    - Monday 5 November 2007, Evening
      - US

    - Tuesday 6 November 2007, Morning
      - Europe/Japan