PWG Steering Committee Minutes * 6 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)
Paul Tykodi (TCS, 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
  - Ira McDonald and Jeremy Leber as minute takers

- Revised Agenda:

  (1) Administrivia
  (2) Action Item Review (all)
  (3) February F2F - any changes? (all)
  (4) May F2F - meeting in person?
  (5) Communication Challenges (all)
  (6) IDS Workgroup - next steps (Alan)
  (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-20241216.html

- IPR and Antitrust

- Roll Call

- Review minutes of SC meeting (16 December 2024)
  - Approved

(2) Action Item Review (all)

ACTION: 12/16/24 - Paul to send an email to the convener of the Construction Working Group on 
the ASTM side to find a way to join so that he can contribute to JG80
- IN PROGRESS

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: 12/16/24 - Smith to create the February 2025 F2F page
- CLOSED

ACTION: 12/16/24 - Jeremy to announce the February 2025 F2F event after the page is live
- CLOSED

(3) February F2F - any changes? (all)

- Discussion
  - Can we add slides for the liaison summaries that Ira usually now does in the IDS session to 
    the plenary deck? >>> YES

  - Can Bill do an HCD iTC summary slide or two? >>> YES

  - Paul can add a slide based on the response from the guy from Auburn U about 3D and adoption 
    of or development of a 3D HCD cPP

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

(4) May F2F - meeting in person?
```
  - Need to decide:
    - Where it will be (Hawaii, West Coast, East Coast, Lexington, ...)
 
    - When will it be? Currently scheduled for 6-8 May 2025

    - Who will be able to travel? Smith, Bill, Jeremy will likely be able to travel
```
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
- OPEN

(5) PWG Communication Challenges (all)

- Discussion
  - SC reflector seems to be working, as is IPP and IPP Everywhere

(6) IDS Workgroup - next steps (Alan)

- Discussion
  - Pause discussion until mid-April (when tax filings are done)

(7) JG 80 Liaison Discussion - any updates? (Paul)

- Discussion
  - Paul is working on authoring the email

(8) PWG 3D - IPP Article Development (Paul)

- Discussion
  - Tied to answers from emails in action items

(9) PWG 3D - PR Opportunities (Paul)

- Discussion
  - Tied to answers from emails in action items

(10) OpenPrinting News/GSoC - updates (Ira)
https://ftp.pwg.org/pub/pwg/liaison/openprinting/minutes/
https://openprinting.github.io/OpenPrinting-News/
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/2.0.1
https://github.com/OpenPrinting/libcups/releases/tag/2.0.0
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 - timeline is still TBD and unpublished


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

  - New structure for news postings from OP (Till)
    - OpenPrinting News - A New Approach
      - Moving on from time-based monthly posts to one post per subject matter
      - https://openprinting.github.io/OpenPrinting-News-A-New-Approach/

    - OpenPrinting News - The Winter of Code 4.0
      - OpenPrinting is mentoring organization in the WoC 4.0! 
      - Apply for doing a 1-month project until Dec 31!
      - https://openprinting.github.io/OpenPrinting-News-The-Winter-of-Code-4.0/

  - 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 v2.0.1 release notes link from 08/14/24 (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 will resume on 01/14/25

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

- Discussion
  - Mopria
    - Mopria is asking for a new IPP attribute, which is a good move toward more engagement

  - 3MF Consortium
    - Does Mike have any updates?

  - Do we need to pursue liaisons relating to cloud printing?
    - Are there "cloud printing" consortia to reach out to? 
      - Or is it just individual vendors? 
      - Are any of them PWG members?

(12) Next SC meetings

- SC - Monday 13 January 2025
  - Draft plenary slide review

- SC - Monday 20 January 2025
  - CANCELED due to MLK Day and Inauguration Day

- SC - Monday 27 January 2025
  - Final plenary slide review and other twiddles to the F2F

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

- SC - Monday 10 February 2025
  - Postmortem on PWG February 2025 F2F

Previous Action Items

ACTION: 12/16/24 - Paul to send an email to the convener of the Construction Working Group on the ASTM side to find a way to join so that he can contribute to JG80
- IN PROGRESS
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: 12/16/24 - Smith to create the February 2025 F2F page
- CLOSED
ACTION: 12/16/24 - Jeremy to announce the February 2025 F2F event after the page is live
- CLOSED