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 at the [https://www.linux-foundation.org/ Linux Foundation]

  • [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 [http://www.openprinting.org/ OpenPrinting] Summits

  • Supporting the [http://www.mmiworks.net/eng/publications/labels/openPrinting.html Common Printing Dialog], a collaboration of [http://www.openprinting.org/ OpenPrinting] and [http://www.openusability.org/ OpenUsability]

• Contracted by Canonical for work on the printing part of Ubuntu
  • Packaging CUPS, CUPS-DDK, Ghostscript, Foomatic, system-config-printer, hal-cups-utils, HPLIP, Gutenprint, foo2zjs, SpliX, min12xx, m2300w, ...
  • Packagiung of Ghostscript and HPLIP in collaboration with Debian
  • Answering and triaging printing-related bug reports, fixing bugs, making upstream developers and printer manufacturers aware of problems
  • Member of printing and QA teams
  • Made Plug'n'Print (automatic print queue setup) working in Ubuntu
• Upstream development activity
  • Collaboration with Tim Waugh from Red Hat on upstream development of system-config-printer and hal-cups-utils

  • [http://www.cups.org/espgs/index.php Merger of ESP Ghostscript with GPL Ghostscript]

  • VCS write access for Gutenprint, ESP Ghostscript (project discontinued), GPL Ghostscript, system-config-printer, hal-cups-utils

  • Beta tester for [http://hplip.sf.net HPLIP] (HP Linux Printing and Imaging)

• Former activities
  • Responsible for printing and digital imaging for the Mandriva distribution from mid 2000 to mid 2006
  • Given various talks and tutorials about printing and digital photography with Linux on several conferences

  • Organized booths about printing with Linux on the [http://www.linuxtag.org LinuxTag] 2001-2006

Contact details

• Name: Till Kamppeter

• Launchpad: https://launchpad.net/~till-kamppeter

• e-mail: till.kamppeter (at) gmail.com
• IRC: tkamppeter on irc.freenode.net, channel: #ubuntu-devel sometimes also #ghostscript

Skills

• Programming in C, Perl, Python
• Packaging: Debian, RPM, convertible LSB-RPMs

• Web development: HTML, CGI, MediaWiki, forum admin

• Linux system administration, especially network printing

Ubuntu packaging activity

• See [https://edge.launchpad.net/~till-kamppeter/+packages Launchpad]

Upload sponsors

• Martin Pitt (pitti, 99%)
• Matthias Klose (doko)