Meeting 5 schedule and agenda

[lianghai]

• When: 20:30–22:00 UTC on Tue 17 Nov
• Where: See the message in our internal mailing list for the password-protected Zoom meeting URL.
  • If you don’t have access to it, email me at lianghai@gmail.com to get the Zoom URL (briefly introduce yourself in your email if we don’t already know each other).
  • Really sorry for the inconvenience but we’re still figuring the process out. May try a waiting room mechanism in the future.

This meeting is open to all. Joining the meeting does not require you to first become a formal participant of the W3C FTCG.

See also agenda and minutes of Meeting 4.

IRC channel

You are expected to join our IRC channel (see also #7) during the meeting to allow better management.

Quickly join the channel right in your browser via Kiwi IRC: irc.w3.org/#font-text

IRC cheat sheet:

• Announce your attending: present+
• Add yourself into the speaker queue: q+ (and remove: q-)
• To send a message without getting automatically logged in the transcript, prefix your message with /me .

Agenda

Housekeeping

• Confirm scribes and attendance.
• Attention to the code of conduct [Code of Conduct #4]
• Self-introduction of new participants
• Review the last meeting’s minutes [link]
• Plan major agenda items for next meeting and tentatively schedule it

Proposals

• Stalled proposals [Stalled proposals #9]
• Spawn a group to work on 32 bit gids [@rsheeter, Spawn a group to work on 32 bit gids #8]
• Shaper behavior specification [@simoncozens, Group for shaper behavior specification #11]
• “Font-Text Shaping Docs Community Group Charter Draft” [@davelab6]
• Universal Shaping Engine data files [@simoncozens, Universal Shaping Engine data files #16]
• Document relevant discussion venues, projects such as tooling and documentation ones, and experts with their fields of expertise [@lianghai, Document relevant discussion venues #5, Document relevant projects such as tooling and documentation ones #18, Document relevant experts with their fields of expertise #22]
• A highly configurable UCD processing utility for dumping the data into any subset and format [@lianghai, A highly configurable UCD processing utility for dumping the data into any subset and format #20]

FYIs and free discussions

• OpenType 1.8.4 beta available for public review [@PeterCon, MicrosoftDocs/typography-issues/issues/653]
• Informal liaison report from MPEG-OTSPEC [@vlevantovsky, list archives]
• OTWG and OTVar stalled discussions [@tiroj, OTWG stalled : script/language specific vertical metrics (BASE table) #23, OTWG stalled : post-linebreaking layout #24, OTvar stalled : variable axis mapping #25]
• Khmer encoding–shaping discussions [@lianghai, Some latest round of Khmer encoding–shaping discussions #27]
• How should the industry tackle such issues? [@lianghai, Link to charter #13]
• Latest discussion about OS/2.usWeightValue compatibility [@lianghai, Latest discussion about OS/2.usWeightClass compatibility #31]

[lianghai]

Fyi, @vlevantovsky, I’ve tentatively scheduled the upcoming meeting one slot (1.5 hours) later than the old time, to avoid clashing with the WebFonts WG meeting. Now waiting for more votes in the poll to confirm it.

[vlevantovsky]

It seems like daylight savings time changes conspired against us! :)
You moved the scheduled meeting time slot 1.5 hours later in UTC, but due to DST changes in US last weekend, the difference between UTC and US Eastern standard time have increased by 1 hour, so now we have two time slots that collide with the WebFonts WG call that runs from noon to 1 pm Eastern. Both the previous time slot between 11:00-12:30 and the new scheduled time slot that starts at 12:30 pm Eastern time are overlapping with the WebFonts WG call by half an hour each.

[lianghai]

Ha, I’ll keep this in mind when deciding the slot according to the poll result.

[lianghai]

Confirmed to be 20:30–22:00 UTC on Tue 17 Nov. See the top of this thread for details.

[simoncozens]

Oops, I already have two meetings on at that time! We will need another minute-taker.

[lianghai]

@davelab6 and @alerque, will you be able to take minutes this time?

[alerque]

I might be able to do some recording. I have some family health and other issues that might even keep me from the meeting but if I'm able to be there and nobody else is doing this I'll step in with however much I can contribute.

[alerque]

I should be present but maybe a few minutes late. I won't be able to setup the agenda and such in the bot ahead of time but can try to help scribe when I get there.

[lianghai]

@alerque, thank you! I’m working on setting up the agenda now, and I’ll be a backup scribe.