Till Kamppeter
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Leader of the #OpenPrinting project since it was founded in 2001, introduced the CUPS printing system in Mandrake Linux in 2000 working at MandrakeSoft and with this and a lot of evangelism (booths, talks, tutorials) made the other distros also switch to CUPS, since 2006 printing maintainer at Canonical, co-organizing annual meetings with the Printer Working Group (PWG), since 2008 every year mentoring in Google Summer of Code, doing everything to make printing on Linux and similar "just work".
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Canonical UbuntuMissed #UbuCon Europe @ OpenSouthCode 2025?
We’ve got you covered. Catch the highlights and relive the excitement!
From hands-on workshops to networking with community members, UbuCon was a blast. We also had a great time connecting with our old friends from Slimbook, DeepComputing, KDE, OpenSearch, and many more amazing projects.
📍 Málaga, Spain
Get all the details from Mauro Gaspari, Community Engineer at Canonical: https://discourse.ubuntu.com/t/event-report-ubucon-europe-opensouthcode-2025/63386
Event Report - UbuCon Europe @ OpenSouthCode 2025
This year the Ubuntu community is traveling around the world, spreading the word of the orange side of Linux. UbuCon Europe, as announced in this Discourse post, was co-located at OpenSouthCode 2025. Working with the passionate Spanish open source community was an inspiring experience and a beautiful story of passion and collaboration. If you are wondering what the secret southern recipe of UbuCon, you are in the right place. Let’s have a look! 👀 Breathtaking Málaga Málaga is an absolut...
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IBM 1403 Printer
#OpenPrinting is on #LinkedIn now! Follow our page to get all the breaking news:
OpenPrinting | LinkedIn
OpenPrinting | 16 followers on LinkedIn. We make printing just work! | OpenPrinting is maintaining CUPS and related software of the free software/open-source printing stack used by Linux, Unix, and similar POSIX-style operating systems. OpenPrinting - works on the development of new printing architectures, technologies, printing infrastructure, and interface standards for Linux and UNIX-style operating systems.
Are you using #LinkedIn? We have a page for the Opportunity Open Source there. Follow it and do not miss any news. Here we go:
We eagerly need more of your amazing talks, and awesome workshops for the upcoming Opportunity Open Source in the IIT Kanpur in India. Also your meet-ups and BoFs are more than welcome.
Therefore we give you more time to work out your idea for a contribution and extend the Call for Proposals to close on
July 16, midnight in India (IST).
So place your proposal here:
Opportunity Open Source Conference 3.0 + UbuCon India
Web site Be a part of it! Are you astonished by what one can accomplish with free and open-source software? Are you amazed by what open-source communities put together with great enthusiasm? Would you like to know how this all relates to our daily life? Would you also like to become one of these individuals? Are you interested in coding for one of the many great free software projects? Applications? Desktop environments? System components? Cloud? IoT? OS Distribution integration? Immutable...
Dan BrownIf you're an open source maintainer thinking about, or starting to receive, donations and/or sponsorships then I've put together a video with my advice along with a deep-dive into the technical set-up and my experience regarding these methods of funding:
Donations & Sponsorships - Open Source Maintainership
Christine Hall"The Danish Ministry of Digitization is to completely abandon Microsoft in the coming months and use Linux instead of Windows and switch from Office 365 to LibreOffice:" From Word and Excel to LibreOffice: Danish ministry says goodbye to Microsoft https://www.heise.de/en/news/From-Word-and-Excel-to-LibreOffice-Danish-ministry-says-goodbye-to-Microsoft-10438942.html
omg! ubuntuDenmark’s government is replacing Windows with Linux and Office 365 with LibreOffice to boost digital sovereignty and reduce reliance on US 'big tech' firms.
https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2025/06/denmark-government-replaces-microsoft-with-linux-libreoffice
