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	Appointed By	Role	Special Role	Organization	Title
Bill Roberts	Membership Entitlement	Voting Rep	None	Adobe Systems, Inc.	Sr Director of Strategy
Sean O'Connell	Membership Entitlement	Voting Rep	None	Advanced Micro Devices, Inc.	Member of Technical Staff Software Engineer
Sean Looper	Membership Entitlement	Voting Rep	None	Amazon Web Services, Inc.
Michael B. Johnson	Membership Entitlement	Voting Rep	None	Apple	Pro Workflow Architect
Gordon Bradley	Membership Entitlement	Voting Rep	None	Autodesk	Senior Software Architect
Henry Vera	Membership Entitlement	Voting Rep	None	DNEG	Head of Production Technology
Bill Ballew	Membership Entitlement	Voting Rep	None	DreamWorks Animation	VP Research & Development
Matt Kuhlenschmidt	Membership Entitlement	Voting Rep	None	Epic Games, Inc.	Lead Tools Programmer
Brian Cipriano	Membership Entitlement	Voting Rep	None	Google	Senior Software Engineer / TSC Lead
Sean McDuffee	Membership Entitlement	Voting Rep	None	Intel Corporation	Graphics Software Engineer
Greg Denton	Membership Entitlement	Voting Rep	None	Microsoft Corporation	Senior Program Manager
Michael Min	Membership Entitlement	Voting Rep	None	Netflix	Manager, VFX Workflows, Creative Technologies
Eric Enderton	Membership Entitlement	Voting Rep	None	NVIDIA Corporation	Director, Film Rendering Technology
Larry Gritz	Membership Entitlement	Voting Rep	None	Sony Pictures Imageworks	Software Engineering Architect
Cory Omand	Membership Entitlement	Voting Rep	None	The Walt Disney Studios	Director of Engineering, Pixar Software R&D
Mark Visser	Membership Entitlement	Voting Rep	None	Unity Technologies	Sr. Manager Engineering, M&E
Kimball Thurston	Membership Entitlement	Voting Rep	Chair	Weta Digital Limited	Head of Engineering
Daniel Heckenberg	Vote of TAC Committee - Industry Representative	Voting Rep	None	Animal Logic Pty Ltd	R&D Supervisor - Graphics, TAC Chair
Jean-Francois Panisset	Vote of TAC Committee - Industry Representative	Voting Rep	None	Visual Effects Society	Consulting Engineeer
Chris Kulla	Vote of TSC Committee - Open Shading Language	Voting Rep	None	Epic Games, Inc.
Michael Dolan	Vote of TSC Committee - OpenColorIO	Voting Rep	None	Epic Games, Inc.	Senior Pipeline Developer
Cary Phillips	Vote of TSC Committee - OpenEXR	Voting Rep	None	The Walt Disney Studios	R&D Supervisor
Joshua Minor	Vote of TSC Committee - OpenTimelineIO	Voting Rep	None	Pixar Animation Studios	Technical Lead
Ken Museth	Vote of TSC Committee - OpenVDB	Voting Rep	None	NVIDIA Corporation	Senior Director, Simulation Technology

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 tac@lists.awsf.io.

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" ( linked to below ).

Current Technical Projects are listed below.

Incubation

Project	GitHub	Build	Community
OpenCue
Open Shading Language
OpenTimelineIO

Adopted

Project	GitHub	Build	Community
OpenEXR
OpenColorIO
OpenVDB

Archived

None

There are many more VFX related open source projects than what is hosted at ASWF; check out the list and add any we are missing at the ASWF Landscape

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
• Python 3 Working Group
• Rust Working Group
• Universal Scene Description Working Group (USDWG)

Archived

None

Meetings and Conversation

Meetings are scheduled every other Wednesday at 1pm US Pacific Time and are open to anyone interested in participating in the project. You can follow the TAC discussions by signing up for the TAC email list.

You can review past meeting notes and the calendar of meetings.

For the next TAC meeting, you can propose agenda items either via email to the TAC, or as a pull request against those meeting notes.

Conference call details

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