About

• Born 1970 in Germany, living in Portugal
• Speaking German, English, and Portuguese, some French

• Currently manager of [http://www.openprinting.org/ OpenPrinting] and contracted by Canonical to do printing stuff in Ubuntu

• Linux user since 1996, Linux admin since 1997, Linux developer since 2000

Activities

• Manager of the [http://www.openprinting.org/ OpenPrinting] project

• * [http://linux-foundation.org/weblogs/press/2006/07/18/the-free-standards-group-unites-linux-printing-initiatives/ Merged the former linuxprinting.org (I was the maintainer since 2001) with OpenPrinting]

• * Principal [https://www.linux-foundation.org/en/OpenPrinting/Database/DatabaseIntro printer compatibility database] used by all distros

• * Developing [https://www.linux-foundation.org/en/OpenPrinting/Development standard APIs] for printing

• * Working on the printing part of the [https://www.linux-foundation.org/en/Developers LSB].

• * Developing the [https://www.linux-foundation.org/en/OpenPrinting/WritingAndPackagingPrinterDrivers LSB DDK for making distribution independent, auto-downloadable printer and scanner driver packages]

• * Developing [https://www.linux-foundation.org/en/OpenPrinting/Database/Foomatic Foomatic], the software behing the printer database and for integration of all printer drivers with all printing systems

• * Organizing several [https://www.linux-foundation.org/en/OpenPrinting/MeetingInfo printing-related conferences] throughout the year, especially the yearly OpenPrinting Summits

• * Supporting the [ Common Printing Dialog], a collaboration of OpenPrinting and [http://www.openusability.org/ OpenUsability]