PWG Steering Committee Minutes * 27 January 2025

Attendees

Smith Kennedy (HP Inc, PWG Vice Chair)
Jeremy Leber (Lexmark, PWG Chair)
Ira McDonald (High North, PWG Secretary, IPP WG Co-Chair)
Bill Wagner (TIC, former Cloud WG Chair, former WIMS WG Chair)

Preface

This meeting was announced and chaired by Jeremy Leber.

These minutes were prepared by Ira McDonald with draft minutes from Smith Kennedy.

Agenda

(0) Agenda bashing, IP Policy, minute taker

- Review agenda and state PWG IP Policy
  - Meeting was called to order and agenda reviewed

- Revised Agenda:

  (1) Administrivia
  (2) Action Item Review (all)
  (3) Membership Dues unpaid (Jeremy/Smith)
  (4) February F2F - Plenary Slide Review (all)
  (5) Early SurveyMonkey feedback (Jeremy)
  (6) Communication Challenges (all)
  (7) JG 80 Liaison Discussion - any updates? (Paul)
  (8) PWG 3D - IPP Article Development (Paul)
  (9) PWG 3D - PR Opportunities (Paul)
  (10) OpenPrinting/GSoC - updates (Ira)
  (11) Other Liaisons (all)
  (12) Next SC Meetings (all)

(1) Administrivia
https://ftp.pwg.org/pub/pwg/general/sc/pwg-sc-call-minutes-20250113.htm

- IPR and Antitrust

- Roll Call

- Review minutes of SC meeting (13 January 2025)
  - Approved

(2) Action Item Review (all)

ACTION: 12/16/24 - Paul to finish email to a guy at Auburn U. that does the cybersecurity track 
at [ICAM?]
- OPEN

ACTION: 12/16/24 - Paul to get the draft document presented at VDMA meeting that is close to 
completion and approval so that he and we can make comments on it before it is approved (if that 
opening is still available)
- OPEN

ACTION:  01/06/25 - Bill to create a slide for the February 2025 Plenary deck summarizing the 
status of the HCD iTC
- CLOSED

ACTION:  01/06/25 - Jeremy to make a Survey Monkey asking for possible May 2025 F2F in person 
attendees, and limitations / suggested locations, and possible adjacent events that might make 
it more attractive / possible to kill 2 birds with 1 stone
- Add a question / way to indicate collisions - none from WFA / IETF / IEEE / BTSIG / NFC Forum
- CLOSED

(3) Membership Dues unpaid (Jeremy/Smith)
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- Discussion
  - Many members have not yet renewed!
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ACTION: 01/27/25 - Jeremy / Smith to contact members that are nearing being in not good standing to get their dues paid before due date of 01/31/25
- OPEN
(4) February F2F - Plenary Slide Review (all)
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- Discussion
  - Update IPP Everywhere slide and memberships in arrears slide right before the meeting
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ACTION: 01/27/25 - Smith to add Fiery back in to members web page
- OPEN

(5) Early SurveyMonkey feedback (Jeremy)
https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/FVFGTR5

- Discussion
  - Only 3 of 10 replied that they could travel so we are going to make May 2025 virtual

  - Maybe consider Sunnyvale or Half Moon Bay or somewhere around that for May 2026

(6) PWG Communication Challenges (all)
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- Discussion
  - None we are aware of
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(7) JG 80 Liaison Discussion - any updates? (Paul)
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- Discussion
  - Paul is not here so no changes
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(8) PWG 3D - IPP Article Development (Paul)

- Discussion
  - Paul is not here so no changes

(9) PWG 3D - PR Opportunities (Paul)
https://www.rapid3devent.com/event/news/sme-america-makes-announce-colocation-of-trx-event-at-rapid--tct-2025/
https://www.rapid3devent.com/

- Discussion
  - PWG might want to have someone attend this year's combination America Makes Spring TRX 
    and RAPID+TCT - Paul received a notice
    - 8-10 April 2025 at Huntington Place (Detroit, MI)

  - Consensus:  All PWG Officers are fine with Paul attending this event

(10) OpenPrinting News/GSoC - updates (Ira)
https://developers.google.com/open-source/gsoc/timeline
https://ftp.pwg.org/pub/pwg/liaison/openprinting/minutes/
https://openprinting.github.io/OpenPrinting-News/
https://openprinting.github.io/OpenPrinting-News-Windows-Protected-Print-vs.-Scanning-under-Windows/ - 20 January 2025
https://openprinting.github.io/OpenPrinting-News-Google-Summer-of-Code-2025-Project-Ideas-List-posted/ - 26 January 2025
https://github.com/OpenPrinting/cups/releases/tag/v2.4.11
https://github.com/OpenPrinting/libcups/releases/v3.0rc3
https://github.com/OpenPrinting/cups-filters/releases/tag/2.1.0
https://openprinting.github.io/cups-browsed-2.1.1/
https://github.com/michaelrsweet/pappl/releases/tag/v1.4.8
https://github.com/michaelrsweet/pdfio/releases/tag/v1.4.0
https://github.com/michaelrsweet/lprint/releases/tag/v1.3.1

- Discussion

  - GSoC 2025 - see timeline link above (posted by Google on 01/14/25)
    - 01/27/25 - DONE - Mentoring organizations can begin submitting applications to Google
    - 02/11/25 - Mentoring organization application deadline
    - 02/27/25 - List of accepted mentoring organizations published
    - 02/27/25 to 03/24/25 - Potential GSoC contributors discuss application ideas
    - 03/24/25 - GSoC contributor application period begins
    - 04/08/25 - GSoC contributor application deadline
    - 04/29/25 - GSoC contributor proposal rankings due from Org Admins
    - 05/08/25 - Accepted GSoC contributor projects announced
    - 05/08/25 to 06/01/25 - Community Bonding Period: GSoC contributors get to know mentors
    - 06/02/25 - Coding officially begins
    - 07/18/25 - Midterm evaluation deadline (standard coding period)
    - 08/25/25 to 09/01/25 - Final week: GSoC contributors submit their final work product
    - 09/08/25 - Mentors submit final GSoC contributor evaluations (standard coding period)
    - 09/01/25 to 11/09/25 - GSoC contributors continue coding (extended coding period)
    - 11/18/25 - GSoC contributors to submit their final work product 


  - See OP Monthly Steering Committee minutes link above (Ira)

  - See OpenPrinting News recent topic links above (Till)

  - See OP CUPS v2.4.11 release notes link from 09/24/24 (Zdenek Dohnal, RedHat)

  - See OP CUPS v3 release candidate 3 release notes link from 10/22/24 (Mike)  

  - See CUPS Filters v2.1.0 release notes link from 10/17/24 (Till)

  - See cups-browsed v2.1.1 release notes link from 01/10/25 (Till)

  - See PAPPL v1.4.8 release notes link from 11/14/24 (Mike)

  - See PDFio v1.4.0 release notes link from late December 2024 (Mike)
    - Simple C library for reading and writing any version of PDF files

  - See LPrint v1.3.1 release notes link from 02/09/24 (Mike)

  - OP Steering Committee
    - OP monthly calls were resumed on 01/14/25

(11) Other Liaisons (all)
https://mopria.org/
https://3mf.io/

- Discussion
  - Mopria
    - No update

  - 3MF Consortium
    - No Update

(12) Next SC meetings

- SC - Monday 3 February 2025
  - CANCELED due PWG February 2025 F2F

- SC - Monday 10 February 2025
  - CANCELED due PWG February 2025 F2F

- SC - Monday 17 February 2025
  - Postmortem on PWG February 2025 F2F

- SC - Monday 24 February 2025
  - Regular meeting

Previous Action Items

ACTION: 12/16/24 - Paul to finish email to a guy at Auburn U. that does the cybersecurity track at [ICAM?]
- OPEN
ACTION: 12/16/24 - Paul to get the draft document presented at VDMA meeting that is close to completion and approval so that he and we can make comments on it before it is approved (if that opening is still available)
- OPEN
ACTION: 01/06/25 - Bill to create a slide for the February 2025 Plenary deck summarizing the status of the HCD iTC
- CLOSED
ACTION: 01/06/25 - Jeremy to make a Survey Monkey asking for possible May 2025 F2F in person attendees, and limitations / suggested locations, and possible adjacent events that might make it more attractive / possible to kill 2 birds with 1 stone - Add a question / way to indicate collisions - none from WFA / IETF / IEEE / BTSIG / NFC Forum
- CLOSED