Till KamppeterJul 28, 2025

Urgent help for OpenPrinting needed!

As many here know, I am co-founder and lead of OpenPrinting since 2001, known as the print guru for Linux and free software by many. I also got one of the 8 fellows of the Linux Foundation for this.

Up to now I was working at Canonical, hired back in 2006 just to run OpenPrinting and also to maintain printing-related Ubuntu packages.

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Please boost.

#OpenPrinting #LinuxFoundation #getfedihired

Show threadTill Kamppeter

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and more than 30 Canonicalers have connected with me on LinkedIn.

Now I want to continue doing OpenPrinting for a living, and need a way to do so. I am currently working with the Linux Foundation to make OpenPrinting an organiation which can receive sponsor funding. So now I am looking for sponsors.

Even greater would be, if independent of this somebody could hire me to continue OpenPrinting ...

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#OpenPrinting #LinuxFoundation #getfedihired

Jul 28, 2025 at 7:25pmWeb
Show threadMark StosbergJul 30, 2025

@till Thanks for your work.

Would Google be a possible finder since I imagine Chromebooks use your print stack?

Show threadTill KamppeterJul 30, 2025

@markstos Yes, thanks for the hint, good idea, then Google is for sure a good funder.

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