Date: 2017-04-23

Location: Renaissance Hotel, Las Vegas, NV

Boris FX/GenArts, RE:Vision Effects, Assimilate, Sony Creative Software.

Minutes

• Meeting brought to order at 5:05pm, Las Vegas time.
  • Quorum met.
• Attendees: Boris FX, RE:Vision Effects, Assimilate, Sony Creative Software.
• First order of business: Re-appointment of directors (Gary, Pierre, Peter).
  • Remove Bruno as director. He's no longer involved as much.
    • Motion made, seconded, passed.
    • Peter to remove Bruno from the records.
  • Add Dennis as director.
    • Motion made, seconded, passed.
• The Corporation will remain in the UK, despite "Brexit".
• Second order of business: Accounting.
  • Accounts presented by Peter.
  • Gary paid for website in 2016 but hasn’t billed the Association yet.
  • We owe money to Tim Kinnel for website in 2016 but he hasn’t billed the Association yet.
  • We approved the accounts as written (shared by Peter ahead of AGM).
• Peter has sent invoices for 2017 dues.
• Some discussion of Boris FX, GenArts, Imagineer account; resolution was to bill to Boris FX and Gary will update the website to just show as one member, "Boris FX".
• Discussion on whether members can pay dues online; Digital Anarchy would like to do that. The Association will look into it. (Nobody volunteered to take this on.)
• Discussion of recruiting new members.
  • Dennis knows folks at MAGIX and will talk to them.
  • SGO has historically had some objections to joining; Peter to follow up.
• Discussion of next version.
  • Pierre has been working on pushing the API forward, but hasn't had much help.
  • There is a first draft of some proposals.
  • Question: can we hire someone associated with Natron to put first draft of new features into the spec?
    • Pierre to discuss with Alex and Frederic at Natron/Inria, will come up with a ballpark figure and a rough spec of what we want.
• Pierre brought up GPU OpenCL suite changes:
  • How can we move this forward?
  • Make one proposal from the various ones.
  • Could we get it into 1.4.1? (Seems aggressive.)
  • Resolve's suite is in the installer, Sony shared theirs.
  • Suites are incompatible but similar.
  • Dennis to email a merged proposal around.
  • Dennis will propose a merged GPU suite.
• Meeting adjourned at 5:35pm.