About

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

• Currently manager of 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 OpenPrinting project at the Linux Foundation

  • Merged the former linuxprinting.org (I was the maintainer since 2001) with OpenPrinting

  • Principal printer compatibility database used by all distros

  • Developing standard APIs for printing

  • Working on the printing part of the LSB.

  • Developing the LSB DDK for making distribution independent, auto-downloadable printer and scanner driver packages

  • Developing Foomatic, the software behing the printer database and for integration of all printer drivers with all printing systems

  • Organizing several printing-related conferences throughout the year, especially the yearly OpenPrinting Summits

  • Supporting the Common Printing Dialog, a collaboration of OpenPrinting and OpenUsability

  • Organizing the participation of the Linux Foundation in the Google Summer of Code 2008, entered with 5 student projects for OpenPrinting

• 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
  • MOTU
  • 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
  • Sponsoring uploads of Brother driver packages to Multiverse (packaged by Saïvann Carignan and Jeremy Schoenhaar)
• Upstream development activity
  • Collaboration with Tim Waugh from Red Hat on upstream development of system-config-printer and hal-cups-utils

  • 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 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 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 and #gsoc

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 Launchpad

Upload sponsors

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