Co-founder and lead of #OpenPrinting (since 2001), introduced CUPS printing system in Mandrake Linux in 2000 working at MandrakeSoft, with this and a lot of evangelism (booths, talks, workshops) made the other distros switch to CUPS, 2006-2025 at Canonical, 2025-2026 funded by Sovereign Tech Fund, co-organizing annual meetings with the Printer Working Group (PWG), since 2008 every year mentoring in Google Summer of Code, fellow of the Linux Foundation. Does everything to make printing just work!
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Last Notes npub1m2w2n8tn26lzs9q295a4us679d0g9knk0jd9vw9yk0vflt6f3maqywdjlq Till Kamppeter @nprofile…afd4 And have a look (listen?) at the Community Feedback. Patrick has praised my participation 2 weeks ago, in ep. #477, about the cruelties of printer manufacturer's greed, and he has the right printers: Epson EcoTank and Brother laser (actually LED), no cartridge-based inkjets ... npub1m2w2n8tn26lzs9q295a4us679d0g9knk0jd9vw9yk0vflt6f3maqywdjlq Till Kamppeter Here is another testimonial of my work at OpenPrinting! npub1m2w2n8tn26lzs9q295a4us679d0g9knk0jd9vw9yk0vflt6f3maqywdjlq Till Kamppeter @nprofile…rrkm npub1m2w2n8tn26lzs9q295a4us679d0g9knk0jd9vw9yk0vflt6f3maqywdjlq Till Kamppeter @nprofile…afd4 npub1m2w2n8tn26lzs9q295a4us679d0g9knk0jd9vw9yk0vflt6f3maqywdjlq Till Kamppeter @nprofile…0pfl hat mich interviewed für den Podcast des Linux Magazins. Wir haben über #OpenPrinting gesprochen, wie es vor einem Vierteljahrhundert los ging, was wir machen, unsere Entwicklergemeinde, die Rolle der #OpportunityOpenSource Konferenzen, die ich organisiere, meine Entlassung von Canonical, die Unterstützung durch die @nprofile…3kw2 und wie es weiter gehen wird, insbesondere mit der @nprofile…38fd ... npub1m2w2n8tn26lzs9q295a4us679d0g9knk0jd9vw9yk0vflt6f3maqywdjlq Till Kamppeter @nprofile…06wv (and anybody else at @nprofile…u9pr) I have found a nice use story: npub1m2w2n8tn26lzs9q295a4us679d0g9knk0jd9vw9yk0vflt6f3maqywdjlq Till Kamppeter HDMI vs. Linux: npub1m2w2n8tn26lzs9q295a4us679d0g9knk0jd9vw9yk0vflt6f3maqywdjlq Till Kamppeter New day, new highlight clip from @BrodieOnLinux 's Tech over Tea episode #300 with me. npub1m2w2n8tn26lzs9q295a4us679d0g9knk0jd9vw9yk0vflt6f3maqywdjlq Till Kamppeter "Crafting snaps quickstart guide 101" npub1m2w2n8tn26lzs9q295a4us679d0g9knk0jd9vw9yk0vflt6f3maqywdjlq Till Kamppeter Third round of highlights taken from @nprofile…cz9d 's Tech over Tea episode #300 with me. npub1m2w2n8tn26lzs9q295a4us679d0g9knk0jd9vw9yk0vflt6f3maqywdjlq Till Kamppeter FOSDEM has selected the booths for 2026 (Jan 31-Feb 1, Brussels). And our joint booth of OpenPrinting and OpenPrinter is accepted! npub1m2w2n8tn26lzs9q295a4us679d0g9knk0jd9vw9yk0vflt6f3maqywdjlq Till Kamppeter Good News! npub1m2w2n8tn26lzs9q295a4us679d0g9knk0jd9vw9yk0vflt6f3maqywdjlq Till Kamppeter @nprofile…4xf4 npub1m2w2n8tn26lzs9q295a4us679d0g9knk0jd9vw9yk0vflt6f3maqywdjlq Till Kamppeter @nprofile…preh Thanks for the nice shoutout! npub1m2w2n8tn26lzs9q295a4us679d0g9knk0jd9vw9yk0vflt6f3maqywdjlq Till Kamppeter @nprofile…preh Thanks for taking the Open Printer into your show! It made it already through practically all news channels. npub1m2w2n8tn26lzs9q295a4us679d0g9knk0jd9vw9yk0vflt6f3maqywdjlq Till Kamppeter OpenPrinting News - Google Summer of Code 2025 - The amazing work is going on! npub1m2w2n8tn26lzs9q295a4us679d0g9knk0jd9vw9yk0vflt6f3maqywdjlq Till Kamppeter @nprofile…rqg8 12/21, so I am not really an e-mail expert, only sending and receiving them, but thanks @nprofile…cnxx for making that easy. npub1m2w2n8tn26lzs9q295a4us679d0g9knk0jd9vw9yk0vflt6f3maqywdjlq Till Kamppeter @nprofile…spn0 @nprofile…8kdh @nprofile…ynj7 Diogo, how do you get it delivered to the EU? npub1m2w2n8tn26lzs9q295a4us679d0g9knk0jd9vw9yk0vflt6f3maqywdjlq Till Kamppeter Urgent help for OpenPrinting needed! npub1m2w2n8tn26lzs9q295a4us679d0g9knk0jd9vw9yk0vflt6f3maqywdjlq Till Kamppeter OpenPrinting News - Opportunity Open Source 3.0 - No UbuCon India co-hosted with us npub1m2w2n8tn26lzs9q295a4us679d0g9knk0jd9vw9yk0vflt6f3maqywdjlq Till Kamppeter @nprofile…km7j npub1m2w2n8tn26lzs9q295a4us679d0g9knk0jd9vw9yk0vflt6f3maqywdjlq Till Kamppeter @nprofile…preh @nprofile…qftk npub1m2w2n8tn26lzs9q295a4us679d0g9knk0jd9vw9yk0vflt6f3maqywdjlq Till Kamppeter Jill & Till part 2! npub1m2w2n8tn26lzs9q295a4us679d0g9knk0jd9vw9yk0vflt6f3maqywdjlq Till Kamppeter @nprofile…rl07 Salvem a data ... npub1m2w2n8tn26lzs9q295a4us679d0g9knk0jd9vw9yk0vflt6f3maqywdjlq Till Kamppeter @nprofile…8xaf @nprofile…8zyp #DeepComputing has published an update of the #Ubuntu 24.04 image (vers. 1.1)! npub1m2w2n8tn26lzs9q295a4us679d0g9knk0jd9vw9yk0vflt6f3maqywdjlq Till Kamppeter @nprofile…ntaa Are these German ALT texts for the photos written by you or by AI? npub1m2w2n8tn26lzs9q295a4us679d0g9knk0jd9vw9yk0vflt6f3maqywdjlq Till Kamppeter @nprofile…966d What hardware did you use for that? npub1m2w2n8tn26lzs9q295a4us679d0g9knk0jd9vw9yk0vflt6f3maqywdjlq Till Kamppeter #FOSDEM in Brussels is coming closer, Feb 1 and 2, and it will get orange! npub1m2w2n8tn26lzs9q295a4us679d0g9knk0jd9vw9yk0vflt6f3maqywdjlq Till Kamppeter At OpenPrinting we are full steam in the preparations for the Google Summer of Code 2025! npub1m2w2n8tn26lzs9q295a4us679d0g9knk0jd9vw9yk0vflt6f3maqywdjlq Till Kamppeter @nprofile…ak8p Gostei da impressora 3D na mesa de swag, para fazer o swag na hora. npub1m2w2n8tn26lzs9q295a4us679d0g9knk0jd9vw9yk0vflt6f3maqywdjlq Till Kamppeter @nprofile…843t You are young!! (I am 54 years old) npub1m2w2n8tn26lzs9q295a4us679d0g9knk0jd9vw9yk0vflt6f3maqywdjlq Till Kamppeter #OpenPrinting is present on #FOSDEM #FOSDEM2025, Feb 1-2 in Brussels/Belgium! Not only I am there but Akarshan Kapoor is giving a lightning talk about scanner support in #PAPPL, on Sat, Feb 1, 12:10-12:25 (building H, room 2215, Ferrer): npub1m2w2n8tn26lzs9q295a4us679d0g9knk0jd9vw9yk0vflt6f3maqywdjlq Till Kamppeter @nprofile…7rtz So create a RAM disk on the excess to have a swap space for the system's regular RAM ... npub1m2w2n8tn26lzs9q295a4us679d0g9knk0jd9vw9yk0vflt6f3maqywdjlq Till Kamppeter 2/2 npub1m2w2n8tn26lzs9q295a4us679d0g9knk0jd9vw9yk0vflt6f3maqywdjlq Till Kamppeter 1/2 npub1m2w2n8tn26lzs9q295a4us679d0g9knk0jd9vw9yk0vflt6f3maqywdjlq Till Kamppeter Announced by #WoC: npub1m2w2n8tn26lzs9q295a4us679d0g9knk0jd9vw9yk0vflt6f3maqywdjlq Till Kamppeter Did you know that there was a printer on the Space Shuttles? So people were printing in space? It was an 80-column line printer: npub1m2w2n8tn26lzs9q295a4us679d0g9knk0jd9vw9yk0vflt6f3maqywdjlq Till Kamppeter @npub183n…tahh So do not use mouse jigglers with the new KDE ... npub1m2w2n8tn26lzs9q295a4us679d0g9knk0jd9vw9yk0vflt6f3maqywdjlq Till Kamppeter @npub1gzl…kk4u npub1m2w2n8tn26lzs9q295a4us679d0g9knk0jd9vw9yk0vflt6f3maqywdjlq Till Kamppeter @npub183n…tahh The Thunderbirdies have the advantage of having a GUI app, and how should we non-GUI-system-component folks proceed? npub1m2w2n8tn26lzs9q295a4us679d0g9knk0jd9vw9yk0vflt6f3maqywdjlq Till Kamppeter @npub1934…0q04 At least GTK has a much better print dialog than Qt, both in terms of user interface and also in terms of ease to do modifications on it ...
