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

Chat

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