August 5, 2020

Owned by Cory Omand
Last updated: Aug 06, 2020Version comment
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Attendance

Cory Omand - WG Chair, Pixar/TWDS
Alan Blevins, Dreamworks
Alex Schwank, Apple
Aloys Baillet, Animal Logic
Andy Biar,  Warner Bros.
Anthony Shafer, Sunrise Productions
Ben Chung-Hoon, Google
Bill Spitzak, Dreamworks Animation
Brian Green, Dreamworks
Carson Brownlee, Intel
Charles Fleche, Rodeo FX
Chris Rydalch, Blue Sky Studios
Daniel Heckenberg, Animal Logic
Deke Kincaid, Digital Domain
Dhruv Govil, Apple
Doug MacMillan, Tippett Studio
Eoin Murphy, NVidia
Eric Enderton, NVidia
Francois Lord, Rodeo FX
Gary Jones, Foundry
Gordon Bradley, Autodesk
Greg Wuller, AWS
Henry Vera, DNEG
James Pedlingham, Foundry
Jeff Bradley, Dreamworks
John Hood, SPI
John Mertic, Linux Foundation
Jordan Soles, Rodeo FX
JT Nelson, Pasadena Open Source Consortium/SoCal Blender group
Kimball Thurston, Weta
Larry Gritz, SPI
Lee Kerley, SPI
Luca Scheller, RiseFX
Mark Elendt, SideFX
Mark Final, Foundry
Mark Tucker, SideFX
Matthew Levine, WDAS
Matthew Low, DWA
Michael B. Johnson, Apple
Michael Kass, NVidia
Michael Min, Netflix
Niall Redmond, Foundry
Nick Porcino, Pixar
Pilar Molina Lopez, Blue Sky Studios
Pier Paolo Ciarravano, MPC
Richard Lei, Weta
Robin Rowe, CinePaint
Roman Zulak, SPI
Rory Woodford, Foundry
Sean Looper, AWS
Sean McDuffee, Intel
Serguei Kalentchouk, Apple
Shawn Dunn, Epic Games
Sue Sauer, Sunrise Productions
Toby Jones, Walt Disney Animation Studios

Minutes

  • Action item follow-up (0:05-0:10)

    • Report additional ASWF wiki SSO issues to LF (Cory O.)

      • Issues have been reported to LF, no further updates on the support ticket at this time.

      • LF support has recommended viewing the SSO FAQ (linked below) for tips on getting unstuck if you experience SAML login errors.

    • Send email about WGUSD wiki to usd-interest (Cory O.)

      • Need to add some guidelines & expectations to the front page before announcing widely.

      • Should be able to do this in the next week or so, then send an announcement to usd-interest.

    • USD Superbuilds (Carson B.)

      • No update this week, busy with SIGGRAPH prep.

    • Jupyter notebook research progress (JT)

      • Created a new scratch Intro page with links to other research docs (linked below)

      • Great progress with integration of OpenVDB, OpenCUE and other projects in notebooks.

      • Discussed at TAC, agreeement that Jupyter notebooks are a good solution for interactive doc/examples to support the community.

      • CoryO: Is there a section that outlines how to use USD within a notebook? JT: Not yet, need to research.

  • WGUSD wiki content review (0:10-0:12)

    • CoryO: No major additions, some minor corrections made to the USD Projects and Resources page.

    • Question on the Tips & Tricks page asking whether there was a "punch list" of desired/needed articles.

      • Seems like both information that doesn't exist elsewhere and information that might be more difficult to find in its current location (e.g. on a studio or company website) would be fair game to add to the wiki, provided the author has the rights to contribute it.

      • CoryO: Can add content from the brainstorming doc (link below) to the wiki as a place to capture suggestions for new content.

  • Additional Topics (0:10-0:20)

    • GitHub branch naming (KimballT) 

      • KimballT: Noticed that USD renamed the master branch to release, and added a dev branch. Is there a public thread on this? It would be good to implement this across other ASWF projects.

      • AlexS posted the announcement sent to usd-interest by the USD team.

      • CoryO: I haven't seen any additional detail on the procedure used to make this change.

      • KimballT intends to bring this topic up at a future TAC meeting.

    • Docker Images (NickP)

      • NickP: Does anyone here know whether there are any plans for providing wider platform support, e.g. Windows, for docker images that are produced for ASWF projects?

      • CoryO: Nobody on the call from the CIWG, might be a good idea to ask in the #wg-ci channel on the ASWF slack.

    • No further items for discussion identified, ending the session early for today.

  • Action Items:

    • Try to make the WGUSD landing page a bit more welcoming for new users then send out an announcement to usd-interest (Cory  O.)

    • Add content from the brainstorming google doc to the wiki (Cory O.)

Reference

License: CC BY 4.0, Copyright Contributors to the ASWF USD working group.