OpenPrinting News - Google Summer of Code 2025 - Contributors selected and projects started
Our 11 GSoC contributors for OpenPrinting are doing great work! Now, one month into the official coding period, I have posted an overview: All projects with the contributor's abstracts, work reports from the contributors, links to their GIT repositories, and some background info:
In June, the Sovereign Tech Agency took part in UN Open Source Week in New York. We convened a delegation of open source experts to bring hands-on experience into the global conversations around digital cooperation and public infrastructure. Across multiple sessions, we highlighted the essential role of open technologies and the responsibility that institutions share for supporting them.
Explore what we shared and learned at #UNOpenSourceWeek in our latest blog post:
Linux's remarkable journey from one dev's hobby to 40 million lines of code - and counting https://www.zdnet.com/article/linuxs-remarkable-journey-from-one-devs-hobby-to-40-million-lines-of-code-and-counting/ by @sjvn
An insider tells the story of the #Linux kernel's 30+ year history.
Missed #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
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...
#OpenPrinting is on #LinkedIn now! Follow our page to get all the breaking news:
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.
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Nina Kalinina
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