Academy Software Foundation - Technical Advisory Council (TAC) Meeting - October 18, 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 Projects, Working Groups, Linux Foundation

Other Attendees

Dede Kincaid, Digital Domain
JT Nelson, Pasadena Open Source consortium / SoCal Blender group
Olga Avramenko, MPC
Joseph Goldstone, ARRI
Bill Ballew, Dreamworks
Christian Wieberg-Nielsen
Darin Grant, Animal Logic

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Agenda

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

Notes

General Updates

Mr. Mertic gave an update on the transition of projects to LFX Meeting Management, and indicated that about 2/3 of the projects are using the service. Mr. Mertic will reach out to the remaining projects to move them over.
Mr. Mertic asked attendees to provide feedback on the Swag Store at #446
Mr. Mertic further indicated there are no updates on the NVIDIA review of #434

Dev Days Recap #476

-Ms. Payne provided a recap of Dev Days, noting seven participating companies ( slides presented at #476 ). Ms. Avranenko presented stats from the participants. She also reviewed a brief list areas where the event can improve for the future. Ms. Payne outlined further plans for doing a similar event in the future. Mr. Gritz also spoke about the attendee mix, and Mr. Phillips shared his experiences with the participants and feedback on the CLA process.

Annual Review - D&I Working Group #473

Ms. Payne and Ms. Rose presented an update of the D&I working group and reviewed the focus areas ( slides presented at #473 ).
Ms. Payne indicated that in the future they are looking at forming a steering committee to help formalize the group and scale for more activities.

Discuss use of OpenSSF Best Practices badge in lifecycle stage requirements. #502

Due to time, this agenda item was postponed to the next meeting.