TSC Meeting Notes 2019-05-02

Owned by Cary Phillips
Nov 04, 2022
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Attending:

  • John Mertic

  • Cary Phillips

  • Rod Bogart

  • Peter Hillman

  • Larry Gritz

  • Daniel Heckenberg

Personal introductions:

  • John Mertic: Linux Foundation - Director of Program Management. Help getting project up and going, helping with issues and concerns.

  • Peter Hillman: Weta, worked on OpenEXR deep stuff.

  • Cary Phillips: ILM R&D Supervisor, miscellaneous contributions to IlmBase.

  • Larry Gritz: Sony Pictures Imageworks, experience as a user of OpenEXR, lead for OpenImageIO (the major client of OpenEXR, sits between the library and most users).

  • Rod Bogart: One of the originators with Florian Kainz and Drew Hess. Involvement has been on and off, mostly off lately. Vice chair of the Academy’s ACES project.

  • Daniel Heckenberg: ASWF TAC chair.

Discussion:

  • John: We are the Technical Steering Committee:

    • Set direction, features, roadmap.

    • Issues, questions,

    • Serves the community, not necessarily an overlord.

    • Has the help of the TAC

  • Need to set up a TSC subdirectory in the github repo, to hold meeting notes, etc.

  • There are three github repos:

    • Openexr

    • Openexr-website

    • Openexr-images (big test images, nice to not pollute the main repo with them)

  • Other contributors:

    • Kimball Thurston - Weta

    • Nick Rasmussen - ILM

    • Nick Porcino - Occulus, formerly ILM

    • Jonathan Stone - Lucasfilm/MaterialX

  • ASWF member organization have obligation to contribute to projects.

  • Larry: OCIO has a separate role for TSC chair. We can be creative with how we divide the roles. Few things come to formal votes.

  • Cary elected TSC chair

  • Action items:

    • Set up aswf.io mailing lists; send message asking recipients to sign up over there; this lets us know who the community is.

    • Set up private TSC alias.

    • Move github repo to ASWF (contents will be unchanged, address will not change)

    • John: contact Steve Winslow about code scanning, make sure license compliance in order.

    • Cary: Add permissions to github repos