AWSF TAC Meeting - January 15, 2020

Voting member attendance

  • Daniel Heckenberg - Chairperson, Animal Logic Pty Ltd
  • Gordon Bradley, Autodesk
  • Pilar Molina Lopez, Blue Sky Studios, Inc.
  • Michael O’Gorman, Cisco Systems Inc.
  • Henry Vera, Double Negative
  • Bill Ballew, DreamWorks Animation
  • Matt Kuhlenschmidt, Epic Games, Inc.
  • Brian Cipriano, Google & OpenCue Representative
  • Sean C McDuffee, Intel Corporation
  • Larry Gritz, Sony Pictures Imageworks
  • Jean-Francois Panisset, VES Technology Committee
  • Cory Omand, The Walt Disney Studios
  • Kimball Thurston, Weta Digital Limited
  • Eric Enderton, NVIDIA
  • Sean Looper, Amazon Web Services
  • Michael Min, Netflix
  • Michael B. Johnson, Apple
  • Dave Fellows, Microsoft
  • Ken Museth, OpenVDB Representative
  • Michael Dolan, OpenColorIO Representative
  • Cary Phillips, OpenEXR Representative
  • Joshua Minor, OpenTimelineIO Representative

Other Attendees

  • Patrick Hodoul, Autodesk & OpenColorIO
  • Andrew Grimberg, Linux Foundation Release Engineering
  • Alex Meddick, Rising Sun Pictures

Agenda

  • Survey Results & Discussion
    • Results for priorities on 2020 goals
      1. Overall developer engagement (14 / 56%)
      2. Diversity & Inclusion (11 / 44%)
      3. Support Python 3 migration (10 / 40%)
      4. Better integration with VFX reference platform (8 / 32%)
      5. Cross platform/GPU support (7 / 28%)
      6. Adopting more projects (7 / 28%)
      7. Funding developer capacity to tackle gaps in open source projects (7 / 28%)
      8. Improved build infrastructure (6 / 24%)
      9. Supporting project security (4 / 16%)
      10. Suggest / foster projects to enable sharing of common code chunks (4 / 16%)
      11. Other: More member company developers casually contributing to projects they use (1 / 4%)
    • Gordon, Sean, Brian: Is this specifically for TAC, or for Foundation more broadly?
    • Goal priorities for Foundation, therefore can and should draw on Board and Outreach Committee, esp for 1, 2, 7.
  • Goals for TAC: Year 2
    • Daniel: generally good alignment with survey results. Need to find objectives for developer engagement and diversity & inclusion.
    • Sean: Roadmaps as a requirement for all projects? Would be a useful part of project documentation goals, along with mission statement etc.
  • Google Summer of Code (Larry)
    • Deadline approaching: Google Summer of Code - How It Works
    • Project ideas for individual ASWF projects, also at shared level (infrastructure etc)
    • Good opportunities to mentor developers to incorporate ASWF projects into other open source systems (e.g. OCIO into another system)
    • Time required for project proposals and also mentoring for successful students / projects
    • Ideas from Project Chairs?
      • OpenCue, OCIO, OpenEXR
  • CI updates
    • Working group – no meetings yet
    • Andrew: working on standing up long-lived AWS instances for GPU builds
  • Update on candidate projects
    • Media player?
      • Consistent request from survey results for an ASWF project
      • Why? Already existing commercial, proprietary and open source offerings
      • Henry: all options seem non viable for future development
      • Cary: Reach out to Darby to talk to group about his experiences with DJV
    • Kimball: rawtoaces discussions with Academy
  • Next meeting
    • 29 January 2020
      • shift to meeting just prior to plenary meeting?
    • 30 January 2020: ASWF Plenary @ AMPAS LA

Action Items (AIs)

  • Larry: Start Google Summer of Code process
  • Daniel: Reach out to Darby Johnson re: open source media players
  • Daniel: Arrange and propose TAC face to face meeting before ASWF plenary (30 Jan)
  • Andrew: Continue on GPU build instance provisioning, report back to CI working group

Notes

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