July 8, 2020

Video Conference Link

Attendance

Apologies

• Daniel Heckenberg

Minutes

• Action item follow-up [0:05-0:40]

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  • Confluence instance (Cory O.)

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    • Instance is now available (http://lf-aswf.atlassian.net/wiki/display/WGUSD/)

    • Set up with the Confluence Knowledge Base template.

    • Investigating moving the USDWG agendas and meeting minutes into the wiki rather than having them in github (ease of maintenance).

    • The group will start to populate the KB with information from the brainstorming doc and elsewhere.

    • Once we have a significant amount of content in the wiki, we can review and organize according to the content, rather than trying to determine what the structure should be up front.

    • Each session should include a review of new content added to the KB by members.

  • Proposal for USD Interest summary of threads (Alex S.)

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    • https://docs.google.com/document/d/1ifeLnR7QQCbSi98O3J_EX4TzCmlSDNMfOPWaj1058sA/edit?usp=sharing

    • Would be nice to produce this summary on a monthly cadence, so we can identify trends before important milestones like SIGGRAPH (determine areas of focus for sessions, etc.)

    • Would also be nice for this to be in-line in the wiki (possibly with the nice PDF as an optional download) to make it easy to access. We could then send out a single link to usd-interest.

  • CMake Superbuilds (Carson B.)

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    • Issues with nested superbuilds causing issues in the OpenEXR project, removing super builds as a result.

    • Intel uses nested super builds, would like to understand what the core of the issue is that OpenEXR ran into.

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      • It turns out it wasn’t an ACTUAL issue with the superbuild, just someone thinking that overriding find_package might not work in the future: https://github.com/AcademySoftwareFoundation/openexr/issues/752

    • Superbuild should remain separate from the project, a separate repository that people can choose to integrate or not.

    • Carson to investigate sharing the project, likely as an intel-hosted git repo.

  • IPython/Jupyter Notebooks (JT)

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    • More information added to the document linked below.

    • Looking for more feedback as to how others in the group are making use of Jupyter notebooks.

    • Investigating whether it’s possible to embed a notebook in the wiki.

• Closing/Action Items [0:40-0:50]

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  • USD Superbuild progress (Carson B.)

  • Knowledge Base Content

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    • Transfer wg-usd wiki content to confluence (Cory O.)

    • USD Interest Summary of Threads in Wiki (Alex S.)

    • Review group contributions to the KB (Cory O.)

Reference

• Brainstorming Doc

• iPython/Jupyter Notebook Research

• CMake Superbuilds