TSC Meeting Notes 2019-05-02

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