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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 is an essential piece of the free software system infrastructure and it needs to be kept in its good shape in which it is currently, many people appreciating my work and sometimes even telling that for them printing works better than under Windows or macOS.
Any help is appreciated, including just boosting this thread.
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With the time, Canonical has grown and created internal structures as a big-tech, especially how employees are evaluated. With my mostly external work I got a victim of it and they laid me off. All my colleagues do not really understand why I got fired, as they consider my work really important. Got ~30 "I am really sad that you have to go, you do not deserve it, you are doing great work" answers to my good-bye e-mail
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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
Update! https://ubuntu.social/@admin/112134164848195771
🚨 Instance shutting down 🚨
Unless this instance can find a new owner, it'll be shutting down on 31st March 2024.
Please transition your accounts elsewhere.
Thanks 👋
Attached: 1 image We've found a new home for ubuntu.social! 🎉 Canonical is stepping in and will facilitate hosting, keeping the instance exactly where it is – no migration needed. If you've been thinking about tidying up your personal data, now's the perfect opportunity before the database transition. Here's to moving forward together!
This is a good news follow-up to yesterday's blog post about that Exodus scammy app in the Snap store.
https://popey.com/blog/2024/02/exodus-bitcoin-wallet-follow-up/
On Tuesday, I blogged about a series of Bitcoin scam apps published in the Canonical Snap store. Edit: This section updated on 2024-02-23 to include a Canonical response as two new forum posts from sabdfl (Mark Shuttleworth, CEO of Canonical). Two things! Three things! Zerothly, today we have a response from Canonical. There are actually two new posts from Mark. One in response to the thread asking whether crypto apps should be banned from the Snap store, and the other an acceptance that identity verification might need to be stronger on the Snap store.
Till Kamppeter
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