This meeting was announced and chaired by Smith Kennedy.
These minutes were prepared by Ira McDonald with much help from Smith Kennedy.
- Review agenda and state PWG IP Policy - Ira McDonald as minute taker - Revised Agenda: (1) Administrivia (2) Kooky email (3) IDS meeting in March (4) PWG GitHub License Move to Apache v2? (5) PWG May 2018 F2F venue selection (All) (6) GSoC 2018 status (Ira) (7) GDPR and PWG Operations (Smith / Jessica) (8) IPP Registration policy approved 2/12/18 (9) IEEE 1284 Expiration (All) (10) Responding to ask for blog posting on IPP 3D (11) PWG Liaison agreement with ASTM - does it allow PWG to reference non-public specifications as informative references? (12) PWG at Additive Manufacturing Standardization Forum, April 24 (13) Next SC meetings
- IPR declaration - Roll call - Review minutes of Plenary (7 February) and SC (15 February) meetings - Approved as posted
- Discussion - Anonymous query about PWG membership
- Discussion - Could do it next week (22 March), but Alan is tied up - 5 April and 19 April 19 are off weeks for IPP WG - Alan would prefer 5 April, but keep 19 April as optional second meetingACTION: Alan to announce IDS meeting at ids@pwg.org and pwg-announce@pwg.org for 5 April at 3:00-4:30pm EDT using the IPP WG WebEx meeting
- Discussion
- CUPS moving to Apache v2 with extra exception to allow GPL code to link to it
- ippsample code from CUPS project already has this attribution / license
- Main question: Move all PWG projects to Apache v2 ?
- Smith and Ira voiced support for consistency and simplicity
- Smith asked Mike if there is risk of incompatibility / blowback from us moving
to a new license?
- Mike cannot see any risks or issues at this time
- Consensus: Approved unanimously by all participants in this SC meeting
- Update with clause handling GPLv2 exception coming over from Apple / CUPS soon,
will be reviewed and approved separately in a later meeting whenever it gets here
ACTION: Mike / Smith to update licenses and copyrights in all PWG GitHub projects
to use Apache v2 license and PWG copyright attribution
- Discussion
- Commitment made with Wild Palms Hotel in Sunnyvale
- Planning on catering needed - feedback from SurveyMonkey survey will drive
catering special needs etc.
- Discounted room rate link now on event page
- Agenda pretty well established
- OP folks may get back with some additional topics
- Discussion
- 7 OP projects are approved and staffed
- Google may not be able to provide full oversight (and may reject some projects)
- PWG is very happy that there is this level of engagement
- Discussion - Smith / Mike / Jessica / ISTO sysadmins met 8 March to discuss problem space - Follow up meeting to review ISTO proposal scheduled for 22 March
- Discussion
- Done - what remains?
- Nothing - it is done
- Discussion
- Ira has asked Danny Brennan to chair the PAR, and Danny accepted informally
- Brian Smithson (also IEEE SA member) is willing to act as co-chair
- Other actions needed in the short term?
- Nothing for the PWG
- Danny and Ira and Don Wright need to create the PAR
ACTION: Once IEEE 1284 PAR is created, let the SC know so we can pull people
in to join the WG and contribute to quorum, if nothing else
- Discussion
- PWG won't be providing the blogger with a comparison between IPP 3D and
other technologies
- PWG can share with him a summary of what the PWG has done to date (IPP 3D,
3DPJT, etc.)
ACTION: Paul to draft summary of PWG 3D efforts for review by SC and Anne Price
- Discussion
- Does ASTM liaison agreement allow PWG to reference non-public specifications
as informative references?
- Per-case cross-licensing agreement between ASTM and PWG, for attribution and
copyright?
- Paul and Jessica are working out how to remove risk of copyright infringement
- ASTM is basically creating a "dictionary" of terms, and it would be so useful
if ASTM could just take PWG terms
ACTION: Jessica / Paul to check with Pat (ASTM) on resolution to how they can take
PWG terms but still provide attribution
- Discussion
- Smith already approved Paul's travel to this event
- AMSC is asking for an updated org description for PWG
- Paul to send AMSC's ask and ISO summary to see
- SC - Thursday 29 March 9am Pacific / 12pm Eastern - regular topics - SC - Thursday 12 April 9am Pacific / 12pm Eastern - regular topicsACTION: Smith / Ira to send email to kick off discussion for finding a possible new time for SC meeting (maybe Monday?)