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Attendance

  • Cory Omand - WG Chair, Pixar/TWDS
  • Alan Blevins, Dreamworks
  • Alex Schwank, Apple
  • Aloys Baillet, Animal Logic
  • Andy Biar,  Warner Bros.
  • Anthony Shafer, Sunrise Productions
  • Ben Chung-Hoon, Google
  • Bill Spitzak, Dreamworks Animation
  • Brian Green, Dreamworks
  • Carson Brownlee, Intel
  • Charles Fleche, Rodeo FX
  • Chris Rydalch, Blue Sky Studios
  • Daniel Heckenberg, Animal Logic
  • Deke Kincaid, Digital Domain
  • Dhruv Govil, Apple
  • Doug MacMillan, Tippett Studio
  • Eoin Murphy, NVidia
  • Eric Enderton, NVidia
  • Francois Lord, Rodeo FX
  • Gary Jones, Foundry
  • Gordon Bradley, Autodesk
  • Greg Wuller, AWS
  • Henry Vera, DNEG
  • James Pedlingham, Foundry
  • Jeff Bradley, Dreamworks
  • John Hood, SPI
  • John Mertic, Linux Foundation
  • Jordan Soles, Rodeo FX
  • JT Nelson, Pasadena Open Source Consortium/SoCal Blender group
  • Kimball Thurston, Weta
  • Larry Gritz, SPI
  • Lee Kerley, SPI
  • Luca Scheller, RiseFX
  • Mark Elendt, SideFX
  • Mark Final, Foundry
  • Mark Tucker, SideFX
  • Matthew Levine, WDAS
  • Matthew Low, DWA
  • Michael B. Johnson, Apple
  • Michael Kass, NVidia
  • Michael Min, Netflix
  • Niall Redmond, Foundry
  • Nick Porcino, Pixar
  • Pilar Molina Lopez, Blue Sky Studios
  • Pier Paolo Ciarravano, MPC
  • Richard Lei, Weta
  • Robin Rowe, CinePaint
  • Roman Zulak, SPI
  • Rory Woodford, Foundry
  • Sean Looper, AWS
  • Sean McDuffee, Intel
  • Serguei Kalentchouk, Apple
  • Shawn Dunn, Epic Games
  • Sue Sauer, Sunrise Productions
  • Toby Jones, Walt Disney Animation Studios

Minutes

  • Action item follow-up (0:05-0:10)
    • Report additional ASWF wiki SSO issues to LF (Cory O.)
      • Issues have been reported to LF, no further updates on the support ticket at this time.
      • LF support has recommended viewing the SSO FAQ (linked below) for tips on getting unstuck if you experience SAML login errors.
    • Send email about WGUSD wiki to usd-interest (Cory O.)
      • Need to add some guidelines & expectations to the front page before announcing widely.
      • Should be able to do this in the next week or so, then send an announcement to usd-interest.
    • USD Superbuilds (Carson B.)
      • No update this week, busy with SIGGRAPH prep.
    • Jupyter notebook research progress (JT)
      • Created a new scratch Intro page with links to other research docs (linked below)
      • Great progress with integration of OpenVDB, OpenCUE and other projects in notebooks.
      • Discussed at TAC, agreeement that Jupyter notebooks are a good solution for interactive doc/examples to support the community.
      • CoryO: Is there a section that outlines how to use USD within a notebook? JT: Not yet, need to research.
  • WGUSD wiki content review (0:10-0:12)
    • CoryO: No major additions, some minor corrections made to the USD Projects and Resources page.
    • Question on the Tips & Tricks page asking whether there was a "punch list" of desired/needed articles.
      • Seems like both information that doesn't exist elsewhere and information that might be more difficult to find in its current location (e.g. on a studio or company website) would be fair game to add to the wiki, provided the author has the rights to contribute it.
      • CoryO: Can add content from the brainstorming doc (link below) to the wiki as a place to capture suggestions for new content.
  • Additional Topics (0:10-0:20)
    • GitHub branch naming (KimballT) 
      • KimballT: Noticed that USD renamed the master branch to release, and added a dev branch. Is there a public thread on this? It would be good to implement this across other ASWF projects.
      • AlexS posted the announcement sent to usd-interest by the USD team.
      • CoryO: I haven't seen any additional detail on the procedure used to make this change.
      • KimballT intends to bring this topic up at a future TAC meeting.
    • Docker Images (NickP)
      • NickP: Does anyone here know whether there are any plans for providing wider platform support, e.g. Windows, for docker images that are produced for ASWF projects?
      • CoryO: Nobody on the call from the CIWG, might be a good idea to ask in the #wg-ci channel on the ASWF slack.
    • No further items for discussion identified, ending the session early for today.
  • Action Items:
    • Try to make the WGUSD landing page a bit more welcoming for new users then send out an announcement to usd-interest (Cory  O.)
    • Add content from the brainstorming google doc to the wiki (Cory O.)

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