Video Conference Link
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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