[Printing-architecture] Architecture notes 20030306

HEMSTREET,CHARLES (HP-Vancouver,ex1) charles.hemstreet at hp.com
Fri Mar 7 13:12:16 PST 2003


Linux Open Printing Meeting
03/06/03, 8-9am PST (actual 8:00 - 9:00am PST)

Attendees:
Charles Hemstreet
Ira McDonald
Shawn Pratt
Till Kamppeter
Peter Zannucci


Agenda for meeting (03/06/03):

1.	Shawn Pratt - FSG Meeting in Washington DC - Shawn currently has 11
people targeted to come to this meeting (most of whom are not part of the
regular Thursday architecture meeting).  The PSI person (Bob Taylor) will be
at FSG.  If everyone agrees to the proposed agenda, Shawn will type it up
and submit it.
a.	FSG is looking for some money to be able to help us out.  
b.	What are we working on, what are we missing?  What areas do we need
to have work done?
c.	Ira - put up high level diagrams with color coding - (lots of
work/little work - White space designates that there has been no work done.
d.	Sourceforge open printing website is now available -
openprinting.sourceforge.net.
2.	Ira - FSG visitors, block rate ends at the hotel on March 10th.  Get
your rooms ASAP if you haven't already.
3.	Claudia - proposal for an agenda for the FSG meeting in Washington
DC - covered in Shawn's topic.  See #1 and proposed agenda below.
4.	Mark Hamzy - driver subgroup - Mark was not able to make it.
5.	Other?


Agenda for next meeting (3/13/03):
*	??


Proposed FSG Meeting agenda (Tuesday, April 1, 2003)
Following is a proposed agenda for the FSG meeting:
---------------------------------------------------------
8:00-9:00 AM - Plenary
      (60 minutes = 15 minutes for coffee + 45 minutes for meeting)
   Presenters: Shawn Pratt/Charles Hemstreet
   Agenda
      a. Coffee
      b. Business meeting

9:00-9:30 AM - Architecture Overview
      (30 minutes = 20 minutes for presentation + 10 minutes for questions)
   Presenters: Charles Hemstreet/Mark Hamzy
      a. High level architecture diagram
      b. Identify major pieces of the architecture and which are:
         1. Work in progress (percentage complete)
         2. Not much activity, need more work
      c. Questions

9:30-9:45 AM - Break (15 minutes)

9:45-10:45 AM - JTAPI
      (60 minutes = 40 minutes for presentation + 20 minutes for questions)
   Presenter: Claudia Alimpich
   For the agenda guidelines, see the *note below

10:45-11:45 AM - PAPI
      (60 minutes = 40 minutes for presentation + 20 minutes for questions)
   Presenter: Michael Sweet?
   For the agenda guidelines, see the *note below

11:45 AM -1:00 PM - Lunch (75 minutes)

1:00-1:30 PM - Capabilities (30 minutes)
   Presenter: ???
   For the agenda guidelines, see the *note below

1:30-2:00 PM - Notification (30 minutes)
   Presenter: Tom Hastings
   For the agenda guidelines, see the *note below

2:00-3:00 PM - Printer Driver Renderer (60 minutes)
   Presenter: Glen Petrie/Mark Hamzy
   For the agenda guidelines, see the *note below

3:00-3:15 PM - Break (15 minutes)

3:15-5:15 PM - Architecture details (120 minutes)
   Presenter: Charles Hemstreet/Mark Hamzy
   a. Low level architecture diagram
   b. Resolve problems/issues identified during earlier sessions
   c. Resolve open problems/issues

5:15-7:00 PM - Dinner (105 minutes)

7:00-9:00 PM - Overflow (120 minutes)
   Any items that were identified during the previous sessions need to be
covered. The agenda will be determined as the day progresses.


*note - The following format should be followed for the slide presentation:
   a. Introduction/Purpose
   b. Status
      - Milestones (previous and future)
   c. Details
      - Whatever slides are needed to describe the details
   d. Issues
   e. Information about this working group
      1. Active participants
      2. Meeting day, time, call in information
      3. Websites
         - Mailing list and archives
         - Other documents pertaining to this working group
   f. Q&A and discussion





Action items
#	What	Owner	Status
Action items from 03/06/03
1 	Check to see if there is a good polycon conference phone to FSG
meeting	Shawn	
2 	Check to see if there is a good polycon conference phone to FSG
meeting	Ira	
Action items from 02/27/03
1 	It would be nice if we could get a translation or running summary
(one sentence) of the discussions that happen on the printing-japan
discussion list	Charles	
Action items from 01/30/03
1 	Charles to talk Shawn about getting us a date for face to face
meeting at PWG	Charles/Shawn	Done
2	Ira to check dates at PWG and report back	Ira	
Action items from 01/16/03
1 	None		
Action items from 01/09/03
1 	Work with Shawn to report back to pwg	Charles	Complete
2	Can the executive board provide grants for travel to summits
Shawn	
3	Email people to notify that we will not have a face-to-face meeting
at LinuxWorld	Shawn	
4	Release to printing announce, prerelease message for LinuxWorld
regarding to PAPI	Shawn	
Action items from 11/21/02
1 	Send out an announcement that the meeting will not be held next
week.	Charles	Done
2	Claudia will write down the sequences that she described on the
teleconference - narrative in plain text (terse)	Claudia	
Action items from 11/14/02
1 	Work with Mark Hamzy to find HP people to work on PDC	Charles	
2	Post agenda items query on architecture list	Charles	Done
Action items from 11/07/02
	none		
Action items from 10/31/02
1 	Contact Robert Kravitz to find out if he can make it an hour later
Till	Done
2	Talk to Shawn about moving his meeting to another day	Charles	Done
3	Mailing lists are not behaving probably, contact Shawn	Till	Done
4	Need bidirectional arrows for bubbles A, B, C, and D		
Action items from 10/24/02
1 	Change the list so that subscribers can post, moderate the
unsubscribed	Charles	Done
2	Move Charles to be the moderator of the discussion list, and
printing meetingnotes	Charles	In Progress
3	Change archival from 90 days to 1 year of printing-meetingnotes list
Charles	In Progress
4	Follow up with Michael Sweet to see if new time is doable.	Ira
Done
5	Follow up with Michael Sweet to find out what morning time would
work for him	Ira	Done
6	Send out demo information for Webex so users can be comfortable with
it before the next meeting	Charles	
7	Find out if there is a netmeeting client for Linux	Charles	In
Progress
Action items from 10/17/02
1 	Take discussion list forum and move to meeting minutes forum
	Shawn	Done
2	Move architecture discussions to new time slot, moving from the
Thursday morning time slot.	Charles	In progress.
(Related to AI#3)
3	Michael, Tom and Robert Krawitz to suggest a time for the
architecture teleconference. 	Michael, Tom, Robert - (Ira and Till will
follow up)	In Progress
4	Put the overview template out in the architecture directory
(fsg/pwg)	Claudia	
5	Update the web site with Claudia's template	Shawn	In Progress
Action items from 10/10/02
1	Find out if we can use WebEx	Shawn Pratt/Charles Hemstreet
started
2	example documentation for Job Ticket API (from overview diagram)
Claudia	Claudia will provide by 10/14
3	Post to web and to discussion group for review. (Discussion groups -
done, web - not yet, ran into some server issues)	Shawn / Alan	
4	Make note to other distribution lists to review this spec with
objective to get agreement. (Done - am planning to do a reminder).
Shawn	
5	Broadcast message to application developers to review spec.  Work to
get applications to adopt the capabilities methodology.  	Shawn to
general app groups, participants to their own company app groups (ongoing)
Ongoing
6	Provide a starting point with the Device object definition	Ira

7	Start reviewing and comment on areas of discrepancies and areas for
mapping.	All	In progress
8	Completion of the architecture diagram and wording.  	All	In
progress
9	Requirements document (Shawn to establish an outline, need input to
fill in the info	All	
10	Get feedback to Mark Hamzy on how to get Japan more involved in
OpenPrinting before 10/16/02	All	In progress
11	Issue next version of PAPI spec, version 0.6, candidate for
functionally frozen 1.0.  Add summary info from above as well as a
print-by-reference function.  Targeted for 9/20/02.  	Alan	Done












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