TSC Meeting Minutes 2022-10-04

TSC Meeting Minutes 2022-10-04

Attendees

Gary Oberbrunner, Dennis Adams, Pierre Jasmin, J-P Smith, Paul Miller, Peter Huisma

Minutes

Meeting called to order at 11:07am EDT

ASWF Business



  • Discussed Meeting Management

    • What do people need to do to subscribe to meeting reminders?

    • Need to send proper meeting link to ASWF calendar (requires a LSF account to see the actual link)

    • Action: Gary to discuss with John Mertic, document meeting management process

  • Association wind-down:

    • Peter reports:

      • all outstanding bills are paid

      • accountant is paid

      • waiting for info from UK tax repayments from prev yrs

      • When we have that, we can continue the dissolution (accountant will file wi/ Company House)

      • J-P preparing closing of bank account - waiting for tax repayment info

      • Final balance is around £1600 (plus tax refund, which may be £1-200)

    • Then donate to ASWF; J-P asked John about how to send £ to $ account. J-P knows of an exchange-efficient method.

    • May take a couple of weeks or months to get the Companies House filing complete, depending on tax office

    • Companies House filing takes two months to finalize and strike off records

  • Charter is approved

  • IP transfer is complete

  • Now we can reassign github and change copyright messages (use script)

    • Action: Gary will do these with John Mertic

  • Mailing lists:

    • move discussion group content

      • 29 subscribers on new list, 89 on old discussion list

      • Action: Gary will follow up w/ John M re: transfer mailing list content

    • We have 48 members on the slack channel

    • 34 members on the discord

    • Agreed to not migrate directors' list, but try to migrate members' list content as well as discussion list

  • John M will "put us on the list" for new website

    • Old minutes need to be transferred

    • Don't want to lose old content

    • John proposed a new wordpress site

    • Domain would still be openeffects.org

    • Various types of content on the old site:

      • docs

      • minutes

      • marketing

      • standard discussions -- can be archived

        • Action: Pierre will review old standard discussions to see if we're missing anything on github

      • remove contact form & sign-in

    • Will establish a subcommittee for this when appropriate

Technical Discussion

  • Getting new TSC members, contributors, and eventually committers:

    • Action: Pierre will reach out to Frederik Devernay, Foundry, Autodesk, also Blackmagic (Rohit)

    • Action: J-P will reach out to Mistika (Roman)

  • J-P asks: should we review open github issues? Only 19, but we should also review all PRs

    • Actions: followup (more info), accept, reject, transfer...

  • Agreed to schedule this discussion for next TSC meeting

  • Also we would like to have detailed tech discussions on particular proposals

  • Dennis notes that OSL is talking about color space too, so this is becoming a bigger topic in the community

  • It was noted that collaborations are important and we can play a role there

  • Action: Pierre will create a list of all topics we've discussed over the years that don't have current issues or PRs

    • Some of these are too amorphous to be issues yet; need more discussion

  • Discussion of next meeting's agenda:

Meeting adjourned at 12:15am EDT

Video recording: https://zoom.us/rec/share/7kcJgo3dfBZ1QFCz_WWLSaRAKih3J9pWp4agEtQhrU-13pPMBDlbbIM2HRf9Qly1.EPcYEgXSVCwc-Ri7