TillKamppeter
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
- Everything to make printing in Linux "just work"
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 Gutsy
- Replaced the unmaintained gnome-cups-manager by Red Hat's system-config-printer in Ubuntu Gutsy
- 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)
- Contacts with driver developers at most major printer manufacturers: HP, Ricoh, Epson, Canon, Kyocera, Konica Minolta, Samsung, Fuji Xerox, ...
- 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, [http://www.linux-foundation.org/en/OpenPrinting/Database/DriverPackages 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)