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Till Kamppeter
@till@ubuntu.social  ·  activity timestamp 2 months ago

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

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Michael Downey 🧢
@downey@floss.social replied  ·  activity timestamp 2 months ago

Sorry to hear this @till ... you have been doing very valuable work for a long time, and I remain optimistic that we all will collectively be able to band together and make sure it continues to be supported. 🚀 🖨️

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Till Kamppeter
@till@ubuntu.social replied  ·  activity timestamp 2 months ago

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Interview of me and Michael Sweet (author of CUPS) in #DestinationLinux :

https://youtu.be/CLEMiM0L2Jk

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Till Kamppeter
@till@ubuntu.social replied  ·  activity timestamp 2 months ago

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LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/kamppetertill/

https://openprinting.github.io/news/

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Till Kamppeter
@till@ubuntu.social replied  ·  activity timestamp 2 months ago

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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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priryo@linernotes.club
@priryo@linernotes.club replied  ·  activity timestamp 2 months ago
@till
This sucks, Till. Your work is the epitome of the thankless invisible foundations that make Linux desktops viable for office work peons like me.
If web servers used printers you'd be showered in money :/
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Till Kamppeter
@till@ubuntu.social replied  ·  activity timestamp 2 months ago

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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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Till Kamppeter
@till@ubuntu.social replied  ·  activity timestamp 2 months ago

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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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