Academy Software Foundation - Technical Advisory Council (TAC) Meeting - October 4, 2023

Join the meeting at https://zoom-lfx.platform.linuxfoundation.org/meeting/97880950229?password=81d2940e-c055-43b9-9b5a-6cd7d7090feb

Voting member attendance

Premier member Representatives

Project Representatives

Carol Payne - OpenColorIO Representative
Cary Phillips - OpenEXR Representative
Chris Kulla - Open Shading Language (OSL) Representative
Jonathan Stone - MaterialX Representative
Joshua Minor - OpenTimelineIO Representative
Ken Museth - OpenVDB Representative

Industry Representatives

Jean-Francois Panisset - Visual Effects Society

Non Voting Project, Working Groups, Linux Foundation

Other Attendees

JT Nelson, Pasadena Open Source consortium / SoCal Blender group
Spencer Stephens, MovieLabs
Bill Ballew, Dreamworks
Andrew Grimberg, LF RelEng
Robin Rowe, CinePaint
Doug Walker, Autodesk / OCIO
Deke Kincaid, Digital Domain

Apologies

Joshua Minor - OpenTimelineIO Representative

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Agenda

Conflict with Sci-Tech meeting, so short meeting.

Transition to LFX Meeting Management #460
D&I Working Group Project Review- 10/4 #473
Swag Store feedback #446
Dev Days Update #476
Project Proposal - OpenQMC #434
Discuss use of OpenSSF Best Practices badge in lifecycle stage requirements. #502

Notes

Transition to LFX Meeting Management #460
- Kimball: no option for persistent login to LF account? Andrew: you SAML SSO credentials are staying live since you are in more LF meetings, whereas others may have them expire. For instance if you are attending TAC meeting every 2 weeks. Not sure what’s the expiration on the SAML login, but likely between 1 and 2 weeks.
- John: Down to 6 projects to move over to LFX. Does raw2aces have meetings? Kimball: not really, although now have another contributor, delegating most of it. John: will reach out to remaining 5 projects to move over, it’s relatively painless. Any issues? JT: some groups with a lot of visitors are saying it can be a bit of a pain for infrequent attendees. John: only thing a visitor has to do is put in their name. JT: could be obsolete info. John: we’ve loosened requirements, no more need to create LF account. Kimball: last time I tried (a month or 2 ago) found it difficult to browse and find meetings through LF portal, couldn’t reaily find it if I wasn’t already on the meeting. John: we copy them to the LF Community Calendar, but need to make all the calendars for a project to be able to subscribe as a iCal calendar. Andy: yes, we have that outstanding request, hopefully will get implemented by the team in charge. John: will reach out to remaining projects and move them over.
D&I Working Group Project Review- 10/4 #473
- Postponed by one meeting, OCIO will be Nov 1st (also Carol)
- Carol: what’s a good way to keep track of these schedule items? John: email notifications from GitHub issues? But could also ping people a week ahead. I knew about OCIO, but completely lost track of D&I WG.
Swag Store feedback #446
- John: reminder that if you have feedback, please add it there. Yarille is looking at it and making adjustments. Kimball: positive feedback at last meeting, and even some orders.
Dev Days Update #476
- Carol: participant in Dev Days have been hearing a lot from me, so don’t really don’t have that much. Up to 60 registrants, which is a lot. If you get an email from Olga at MPC, she’s helping to manage the effort (she reached out to volunteer). You’ll be getting emails from her, and you will continue to hear from us. Even if you aren’t a project maintainer, if you are interested in volunteering for the event for a period of time and be on hand, we could use folks to monitor the DevDays Slack channels, we want to have coverage for the whole 48H of the event since we have people in other timezones. If you have a few hours, feel free to add yourself to the spreadsheet. You can sign up for a specific project, but also can sign up for general help.
- You’ll hear from us about company CLAs, should be fine for companies that already have CLAs in place for some ASWF projects, but concentrating on companies that don’t have any CLAs in place. Trying to make companies aware that this will be required for being able to merge contributions.
- Kimball: will there be a cutoff? Some of the people at Weta may not have signed up yet. If we don’t need a cutoff, may not want to? Caroll: since we haven’t listed it up front, we won’t have a hard cutoff, we know that people don’t always prepare ahead of time. We want to encourage people to participate. Kimball: also some people have signed up with personal instead of company emails. Carol: even if they did that, in the registration form we ask for company affiliation, we should be able to figure it out as long as they have filled that field out.
- Kimball: excited to see how it goes! Carol: a bit nervous, may be a bit chaotic, but looking forward to it.
Project Proposal - OpenQMC #434
- Kimball: Eric was investigating whether NVIDIA was going to say anything or not, haven’t heard back. John: believe it’s still being worked on, keeping Framestore folks updated so they know things are still happening.
Discuss use of OpenSSF Best Practices badge in lifecycle stage requirements. #502