= About =

 * Born 1970 in Germany, living in Berlin, Germany
 * 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]]
  * Organizing the participation of the Linux Foundation in the Google Summer of Code 2008, entered with 5 student projects for [[http://www.openprinting.org/|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
  * [[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 and #gsoc

= 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)