Video Conference Link

Attendance

  • Cory Omand - WG Chair, Pixar/TWDS
  • Alan Blevins, Dreamworks
  • Alex Schwank, Apple
  • Aloys Baillet, Animal Logic
  • Andy Biar,  Warner Bros.
  • Carson Brownlee, Intel
  • Charles Fleche, Rodeo FX
  • Daniel Heckenberg, Animal Logic
  • Dhruv Govil, Apple
  • Eoin Murphy, Animal Logic
  • Eric Enderton, NVidia
  • Francois Lord, Rodeo FX
  • Gary Jones, Foundry
  • Gordon Bradley, Autodesk
  • 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
  • Mark Elendt, SideFX
  • Mark Final, Foundry
  • Mark Tucker, SideFX
  • Matthew Levine, WDAS
  • Michael B. Johnson, Apple
  • Michael Kass, NVidia
  • Michael Min, Netflix
  • Niall Redmond, Foundry
  • Pilar Molina Lopez, Blue Sky Studios
  • Robin Rowe, CinePaint
  • Roman Zulak, SPI
  • Rory Woodford, Foundry
  • Sean Looper, AWS
  • Sean McDuffee, Intel
  • Serguei Kalentchouk, Apple
  • Shawn Dunn, Epic Games

Minutes

  • Administrative details [0:00-0:05]
    • Meeting agenda document access
    • Find and add/correct your name, trim colleagues that won’t be attending
    • Agenda location in github for future meetings
    • https://github.com/AcademySoftwareFoundation/wg-usd
    • Communications on usd-interest once WG is ratified
      • Wave: Will there be a slack channel?
      • Cory: Let’s do that
      • John: Done
  • Recap of past scoping meetings [0:05-0:15]
    • Cory: two meetings in March before hiatus until now.
    • Notes available on GH
  • Clarification of WG goals/non-goals [0:15-0:45]
    • Cory: conferred with USD team at Pixar about their views on contributions of most value (see WG readme)
      • WG Goal 1: Assist community members with issues raised in USD support channels
      • WG Goal 2: Consolidate and share best practices for deployment of USD technologies
      • WG Non-goal: Not a steering committee; no special influence on direction of the USD project
      • Schema alignment is a non-goal
    • Cory: Let’s discuss deliverables for WG to focus on
    • Wave: examples of asset structures, shot / sequence structures, naming conventions
    • Gordon: need to capture rationale, discussion as well as final artifact
    • Daniel: is there a good descriptive approach to follow? Design Patterns? Python Enhancement Proposals?
    • Sean: How are the ideas proposed, discussed, accepted / ratified?
    • Wave: PR process seems very suitable
    • Cory: Perhaps ratified examples can be considered for migration into USD documentation
    • MichaelMin: Netflix goal is to have standards that allow for exchange of assets and materials between studios
      • Consistency
      • Encapsulation (namespacing etc)
      • Hoping for these standards to be applicable across different styles of project (documentary, episodic, live-action, animated)
    • Cory: Let’s refine wording for deliverables. PEP-style?
    • Wave: API examples are more useful, valuable than USDA
    • Sean: Would programmatic examples be run against CI?
    • MarkTucker: Another request / deliverable would be Python documentation (not just C++)
    • Cory: Will follow up with USD team about releasing Python docs
    • Eric: Nvidia has slim bridge doc https://developer.nvidia.com/usd/apinotes
    • Wave: Windows, Mac developer, run-time environment support?
    • Daniel: Would a working cross-platform CI environment for USD be a valuable deliverable for the existing goals?
    • Cory: Yes, will add to README
    • SeanMcDuffee: Would this extend to binary downloads?
    • Cory: Hopefully
    • SeanMcDuffee: Are hardware, data center factors, performance discussions or measurements in-scope?
    • SeanLooper: Benchmarks would be valuable
  • Action Items, Agenda for next meeting [0:45-0:50]

Action Items

  • John: Set up wg-usd slack channel under ASWF
  • Cory: Add slack channel to wg readme as communication channel
  • Cory: Follow up with USD team on publishing of Python docs.
    • Python docs exist but are not yet published anywhere.
    • Doc strings also exist, but the mechanism to build them out in the open source project needs to be fixed.
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