OpenPrinting - We continue to make printing just work!
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Till Kamppeter
Till is leader of OpenPrinting since it was founded in 2001, introduced the CUPS printing system in Mandrake Linux in 2000 working at MandrakeSoft and with this and a lot of evangelism (booths, talks, workshops) made the other distros also switch to CUPS, 2006-2025 printing maintainer 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, doing everything to make printing on Linux and alike operating systems "just work". Due to the fact that printing goes through several daemons (CUPS, Printer Applications) got a daemon snapper and Snap enthusiast and evangelist. Co-founder and organizer of the Opportunity Open Source conferences in India since 2023. Till is also fellow of the Linux Foundation.
Exact content TBD
Due to the fact that I got laid off from Canonical last year things are changing at OpenPrinting to assure that we can continue our work in the future.
This talk is about where we are and what we plan to carry on to keep the work on this essential part of the operating system going.
The exact content will depend on our progress and this abstract will get edited appropriately when it comes closer to the conference.
See also the linked videos.
- Date:
- 2026 June 26 - 12:30
- Duration:
- 45 min
- Room:
- Sala Canillas 013
- Conference:
- OpenSouthCode 2026
- Language:
- English
- Track:
- Difficulty:
- Easy
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