Just a reminder that the Printing Summit conference call is tomorrow
(Wednesday) at 9AM pacific. (see call info below)
This is a planning call for the second printing summit. The first
summit was held in Atlanta in April and the second summit will be held
in Lexington, Kentucky on Oct 23-26.
This second printing summit is being planned and run by Till Kamppeter
and sponsored by the FSG. The sponsorship from OSDL to FSG was a
logical transition as much of the printing efforts now revolve around
standards.
Printing Summit 1 (Atlanta):
http://groups.osdl.org/workgroups/dtl/desktop_architects/desktop_printing
Printing Summit 2 (Lexington):
http://www.freestandards.org/en/OpenPrinting/SummitLexington
The meetings in Lexington will follow up on positions taken in the first
summit, which include...
Printer and Driver Installation
We want to achieve correct auto-discovery of printing devices and
auto-installation of the matching driver based on manufacturer
implementation of IEEE 1284 device identification for direct connect and
network printers.
Comprehensive Status Reporting
We want to achieve a set of more meaningful feedback to users and
administrators from devices and drivers about printer status, job
status, and problems that have been encountered and to facilitate user
feedback.
Consistent User Experience
We want to define printing dialogs that are consistent in layout and
print options offered to the user across all applications and desktop
environments.
Print Dialog Extensibility
We want to design a platform neutral standard & API that allows
operating system, application and printer vendors to extend the common
printing dialog with their own extensions.
We want to intensively explore the idea of a "printing dialog provided
as a desktop service" for use by applications and GUI toolkits to
construct print dialogs or to query for printer configuration
information.
Driver Development
Open driver interfaces such as IJS, OP Vector Printer and CUPS raster
are widely used. We recommend all hardware vendors who have plans to
offer their printers for Linux customers to look into available Driver
Development Kits which would greatly simplify driver development for
Linux.
Print Job Data Format
We want to move to PDF (ISO xxx) as the core format for print job
handling (while maintaining backwards compatibility with PostScript).
Certification
We want to enable the printing ecosystem (printer vendors, Linux
distributors, integrators, etc.) by providing a means to certify
printers and printer drivers against standard Linux capabilities (LSB)
rather than against all of the individual distributions.
Testing
Linux distributors, printer manufacturers and the Linux community should
work together to make recommendations on a testing methodology for Linux
printing. The goal is to establish a globally applicable standard for
Linux compatibility testing and certification of printing solutions.
We would like to collect global testing results on linuxprinting.org and
make them available to the Linux desktop community.
Cheers,
John
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Hi,
Reminder of our preparation teleconference tomorrow.
Wednesday 30 August
9am US Pacific / 12pm US Eastern / 6pm Central Europe
Dial-in number: (641) 297-4600
Access code: 1038188#
See also:
http://www.freestandards.org/en/OpenPrinting/SummitLexington#Preparation_con
ference_calls
Cheers,
- Ira
Ira McDonald (Musician / Software Architect)
Blue Roof Music / High North Inc
PO Box 221 Grand Marais, MI 49839
phone: +1-906-494-2434
email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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Subject: [Printing-summit] Preparation conference calls, Fees,
Registration, Web site update
Hi,
here are several updates for the Printing Summit:
Preparation Conference Calls
----------------------------
There will be preparation conference calls for the Printing Summit (as
we had already before the Printing Summit in Atlanta in April). The
calls are scheduled to be every second Wednesday at 9am Pacific, noon
Eastern, and 6 pm Central European time. Dates are August 30, September
13 and 27, and October 11. An additional call on October 18 can be
scheduled if needed.
Agenda for nest Wednesday, August 30 will be mainly logistics, like
answering hotel, travel, catering, and sponsoring questions, type of
preparation materials and so on.
The phone number(s) and access code for the conference calls will be
supplied in a later announcement.
Event Date
----------
As we are having the event together with the PWG face-to-face meeting,
there will be a joint plenary on Thursday, October 26 so the Printing
Summit is going from Monday, October 23 to Thursday, October 26. You are
also invited to participate in a reception on Sunday, October 22.
Conference Fees
---------------
As we did not find a catering sponsor there will be a conference fee of
20 USD/day to cover the costs of the catering in the conference room:
snacks and beverages in the morning and afternoon coffee breaks. For
most of you it will be much lower than the total cost raised by hotel
and travel, so it should be no problem to add it to your expense report
at your employer or sponsor.
Registration
------------
Registration will be handled by ISTO for both the Printing Summit and
the PWG meeting. As soon as they have set up the registration site, we
will give an appropriate announcement.
Preferred Hotel
---------------
It is possible that PWG suggests a preferred hotel (will be announced if
so). It is recommended to take this one, as one can expect cheaper rates
and extra services like for example a shuttle to the event location or
cheap meeting rooms for extra meetings in the evening.
Meeting Rooms for the Printing Summit
-------------------------------------
I have posted a schedule of the meeting rooms for the Printing Summit
and the PWG meetings on the web site:
http://www.freestandards.org/images/e/e5/October_Room_Assignments.pdf
According to this we will have one plenary room with 50-60 places for us
from Monday to Wednesday and every day also two breakout rooms with at
least 10 places (not the same rooms every day).
Thanks to Jerry Thrasher from Lexmark for this file.
Coming by plane
---------------
It is highly recommended to arrive at Lexington Airport (LEX) as it is
only some minutes to get to Lexington downtown from there. The other two
require between 1.5 and 2 hours of driving through the mountains.
Sponsoring
----------
Preferred sponsoring is Travel/Accommodation/Meals/Fee for participants
who do not get reimbursed by their employers, especially the ones who
work on printing-related projects in their spare time. Please contact
the organization team if you want to sponsor.
http://www.freestandards.org/en/OpenPrinting/SummitLexington#Sponsorship_Opp
ortunities
Web Site Update
---------------
Everything announced here is also updated on our Wiki site:
http://www.freestandards.org/en/OpenPrinting/SummitLexington
Feel free to post questions here on the list or to ask during the
conference call on the next Wednesday.
Till
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