Open Printing Summit Preparation

Open Printing Summit Preparation

Meeting called to order by Ira McDonald at 12pm US EDT 28 March 2012. Minutes taken by Ira McDonald.
Recording of this conference call will be archived at:

    http://www.openprinting.org/download/meetingnotes/op-summit-2012/
      OP-Summit-2012-Prep3-20120328.mp3

Attendees

Till Kamppeter (Linux Foundation) - Manager, Open Printing
Hin-Tak Leung (Open Printing)
Ira McDonald (High North / Samsung) - Chair, Open Printing
Glen Petrie (Epson)

Agenda

(1) Google Summer of Code 2012
http://www.google-melange.com/gsoc/events/google/gsoc2012

- GSoc 2012 applications
  - student applications started on Saturday 17 March 2012
    - 3 of 4 interested OPS students have already applied
  - student applications end on Friday 6 April 2012
  - mentors evaluate applications start on Saturday 7 April 2012
  - mentors evaluate applications end on Friday 20 April 2012
  - GSoC announces accepted applications on Monday 23 April 2012

- GSoC 2012 spinup - students meet mentors, read docs, get up to speed
  - student spinup start on Tuesday 24 April 2012
  - student spinup end on Sunday 20 May 2012

- GSoC 2012 development
  - student coding start on Monday 21 May 2012
  - mentor mid-term evaluations start on Monday 9 July 2012
  - mentor mid-term evaluations end on Friday 13 July 2012
  - student 'pencils down' on Monday 20 August 2012
  - mentor final evaluations end on Friday 24 August 2012
  - GSoC announces final results on Monday 27 August 2012
  - students submit code samples on Friday 31 August 2012

- ACTION - Till - contact Linux Foundation about Glen/Hin-Tak updates
  to GSoC projects - no website fall-backs allowed until late April
  - OPEN

(2) OPS 2012 - Logistics/questions/issues (Till)

- Storage for presentation slides
  ftp://ftp.pwg.org/pub/pwg/openprinting/summits/April2012_OPSummit
  - send slides to Ira or Glen if you need them uploaded

- No evening session with OP Japan
  - no participation in evening call during OPS 2010

- Equipment
  - Conference phone w/ PWG bridge throughout meeting
  - Screencast sessions throughout meeting
  - Video projector
  - WiFi Internet access

- Recordings of sessions will NOT be available
  - PWG bridge does not support recording (also not PWG policy)

- ACTION - Till - contact Ghostscript and other color management folks
  as presenters (or send slides?)
  - Michael Vrhel (Artifex, Ghostscript) will attend OPS
  - OPEN

- ACTION - All - Draft presentation slides/outlines for review 11 April
  - OPEN

- ACTION - Presenters - tell Till EARLY about any special requirements
  (e.g., speakers for video, demo printers, etc.)
  - OPEN

- ACTION - Presenters - send PDF slides to Till EARLY (or upload to OP)
  (so that participants can download slides as backup for screencast)
  - OPEN

(3) OPS 2012 - OP Plenary Session

- Ira as presenter w/ help from Glen Petrie

- ACTION - Ira - draft OP Plenary slides by 11 April

- Topics
  - summary of OP activities in last year
  - summary of GSoC 2012 activities and plans
  - summary of OP plans for current year (CPD, CMPC, JTAPI, etc.)
  - status of CUPS filters
  - current OP issues, challenges, and risks
    - OS neutral print models
    - weak security and integrity of Cloud Computing offerings
    - generic drivers replace vendor-specific drivers
    - new model of job ticket-based printing

- Linux Printing in LSB 5.0?
  - Jeff Licquia as presenter or source?

(4) OPS 2012 - Future of Open Printing

- Presenter - Ira McDonald with help from Glen Petrie

- Scope, new directions, new projects
  - scope of server, desktop, laptop, tablet, smartphone clients

- Changing printing/multifunction paradigm
  - shift from drivers to services
  - shift from PDL-embedded instructions to job tickets
  - shift from enterprise infrastructure to shared infrastructure

- Lightweight model for Print Service
  - for resource-constrained devices

- Security
  - TLS transport layer end-to-end security
  - encrypted ZIP of PrintJob (job ticket, document(s), job receipt)
  - security of user identity and payment credentials in Cloud scenarios

(5) Common Printing Dialog (Till)

- Will not be completed in Ubuntu 12.10 (October 2012)

- First step may be to patch Open Office

Open Action Items

See ACTION above

Next OP Conference Calls

(1) April 2012 - OPS Preparation

    - Note - US Daylight Savings Time started on Sunday 11 March 2012
    - Note - Europe Summer Time started on Sunday 25 March 2012

    - Wednesday 11 April 2012, Daytime
      - US
        9am in San Francisco - US PDT (Pacific Daylight Time)
        10am in Colorado - US MDT (Mountain Daylight Time)
        11am in Chicago - US CDT (Central Daylight Time)
        12pm in New York - US EDT (Eastern Daylight Time)
      - Europe
        6pm in Berlin - CEST (Central European Summer Time)

    * Main Number (Till Kamppeter, LF, leader)
      International: +1-218-936-7999
      Access Code:   491659#

(2) April 2012 - Joint PWG / Open Printing Summit

    - Note - OPS is NOT hosted by Linux Foundation Collaboration Summit

    - Tuesday to Friday 24-27 April 2012 at Apple in Cupertino, CA
      - US
        9am in San Francisco - US PDT (Pacific Daylight Time)
        10am in Colorado - US MDT (Mountain Daylight Time)
        11am in Chicago - US CDT (Central Daylight Time)
        12pm in New York - US EDT (Eastern Daylight Time)
      - Europe
        6pm in Berlin - CEST (Central European Summer Time)

    * Main PWG Number (Mike Sweet, Apple, leader)
      US Toll-Free:  +1-866-469-3239
      International: +1-650-429-3300
      Access Code:   By request to Ira McDonald (do NOT publish)

(3) May 2012 - US/Europe - OP Monthly Meeting

    - Note - Joint PWG/OPS is 24-27 April at Apple in Cupertino, CA
    - Note - Ubuntu Developer Summit is 7-11 May in Oakland, CA
    - Note - Ira has a conflict on 16 May

    - Wednesday 23 May 2012, Daytime
      - US
        9am in San Francisco - US PDT (Pacific Daylight Time)
        10am in Colorado - US MDT (Mountain Daylight Time)
        11am in Chicago - US CDT (Central Daylight Time)
        12pm in New York - US EDT (Eastern Daylight Time)
      - Europe
        6pm in Berlin - CEST (Central European Summer Time)

    * Main Number (Till Kamppeter, LF, leader)
      International: +1-218-936-7999
      Access Code:   491659#