The FSG-US group is continuing their discussion of a possible face-to-face meeting with FSG-Japan. The FSG-US meeting members are unaware of a meeting at the New York Linux world but were still have an interest in having a face-to-face meeting with the FSG-Japan team. Below are some of the options and questions about setting up a face-to-face meeting

There are two meeting options:

#1 (Best Option) Joint face-to-face meeting with PWG, FSG-US and FSG-Japan. The current meeting dates would be May 24th to May 28th. The PWG is considering Japan or Vancouver, B.C. for the meeting. Currently, Vancouver is the preferred choice since more people from North America will be able to attend and meetings were held in Japan in pervious years.

#2 Joint face-to-face meeting with FSG-US and FSG-Japan only. End of April is the preferred meeting dates for this meeting by the FSG-US team. Location is open; either North America or Japan.

Purpose or possible agenda items:

>FSG-Japan to provide detailed presentation to FSG-US(/PWG?) on the BI-DI and Vector Driver.

>FSG-US to provide detailed presentation to FSG-Japan(/PWG?) on Architecture, Job-Ticket, Programming-API (PAPI), Image-Driver

>FSG-Japan/FSG-US to understand integration of API's under the (a) common Architecture

>FSG-Japan/FSG-US to discussion next steps (API, integration, testing, etc) for next 3-, 6-, 12- months

>FSG-Japan/FSG-US to prepare presentation for the FSG-Executive Committee

>FSG-Japan/FSG-US to prepare presentation for the PWG

Questions for the FSG-Japan and FSG-US:

Since this note is to determine interest by both teams, please respond to me or the mail distribution list of this note. It is very important to determine who and where the possible meeting would be held before going further with meeting plans.

Would you attend a face-to-face meeting?

Which of the two meeting options (FSG-Japan/FSG-US only or FSG-Japan/FSG-US/PWG) is preferred by FSG-Japan?

Do you have a different suggested meeting option?

(FSG-Japan) Are you willing to travel to North America?

(FSG-US) Are you willing to travel to Japan?

Do you have any suggestions, changes or additions to the proposed agenda?

Any other comments?

Rgds,

Glen W. Petrie

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