davefellows/tac

Overview

The role of the Technical Advisory Committee (TAC) of the Academy Software Foundation (ASWF) is to facilitate communication and collaboration among the Technical Projects. The TAC will be responsible for:

•  Coordinating collaboration among Technical Projects, including development of an overall technical vision for the community;
•  Making recommendations to the Budget Committee of resource priorities for Technical Projects;
•  Electing annually a chairperson to preside over meetings, set the agenda for meetings, ensure meeting minutes are taken and who will also serve on the Governing Board as the TAC’s representative (the “TAC Representative”); and
•  Such other matters related to the technical role of the TAC as may be communicated to the TAC by the Governing Board.

TAC Members

All members of the broad ASWF community are welcome to participate in TAC activities, such as meetings or online discussion. For voting matters such as project inclusion or graduation, TAC members are composed of:

• One representative appointed by each Premier Member;
• One representative appointed by the technical oversight body (e.g., a technical steering committee) of each TAC Project; and
• Up to three experts from the broader motion picture industry (who serve for one-year terms)

Current TAC Members are:

Representative	Title	Organization
Daniel Heckenberg - Chairperson	R & D	Animal Logic Pty Ltd
Sean Looper	Senior Solutions Architect	Amazon Web Services
Dr. Michael B. Johnson	Pro Workflow Architect, Systems Architecture & Design	Apple
Gordon Bradley	Senior Software Architect	Autodesk
Pilar Molina Lopez	Senior Software Engineer	Blue Sky Studios, Inc.
Michael O’Gorman	Distinguished Engineer	Cisco Systems Inc.
Henry Vera	Head of Production Technology	Double Negative
Bill Ballew	VP Research and Development	DreamWorks Animation
Matt Kuhlenschmidt	Lead Tools Programmer	Epic Games, Inc.
Brian Cipriano	Senior Software Engineer	Google
Sean C McDuffee	Graphics Software Engineer	Intel Corporation
Gerald Tiu	Director, Azure M&E	Microsoft
Michael Min	Manager, VFX Workflows, Creative Technologies	Netflix
Eric Enderton	Director of Film Rendering Technology	NVIDIA
Larry Gritz	Software Engineering Architect	Sony Pictures Imageworks
Jean-Francois Panisset	Industry Representative	VES Technology Committee
Cory Omand	Supervising Lead Software Engineer	The Walt Disney Studios
Kimball Thurston	Senior Imaging Researcher	Weta Digital Limited
Ken Museth	OpenVDB Representative
Michael Dolan	OpenColorIO Representative
Cary Phillips	OpenEXR Representative
Brian Cipriano	OpenCue Representative	(non-voting due Brian also being the Google voting rep)
Joshua Minor	OpenTimelineIO Representative

Current Technical Projects

Technical Projects are approved by TAC Members per the ASWF Project Lifecycle guidelines. You can submit your project for inclusion as an ASWF Technical Project by completing the Project Contribution Proposal Template and emailing it to [email protected].

Current Technical Projects are listed below.

Incubation

• OpenCue
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• OpenEXR
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• OpenTimelineIO

Adopted

• OpenColorIO
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• OpenVDB
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Archived

Current Working Groups

Working groups may be formed by the TAC to focus on specific areas of technical interest or need within the ASWF. They report to the TAC which remains responsible for any formal decisions or voting matters.

Active

• CI Working Group

Archived

Join the conversation

You can follow the TAC discussions by signing up for the TAC email list. You can also review past meeting notes.

Participate in ASWF projects

Each of the ASWF projects are open to participation by anyone subject to the governance each project has adopted.

If you are looking for a way to contribute to a project, many ASWF projects maintain a list of "good first issues".

• OpenColorIO good first issue