[Printing-architecture] Application of OpenPrinting as Mentoring Organization for the Google Summer of Code 2007

[Printing-architecture] Application of OpenPrinting as Mentoring Organization for the Google Summer of Code 2007

[Till Kamppeter]

Hi,

I wanted to make this an agenda item for the call yesterday, but for
technical reasons there was no call possible yesterday.

I would like the OpenPrinting project being a mentoring organization in
the Google Summer of Code 2007 (GSoC). This gives us some manpower to
get APIs implemented (PAPI, JTAPI, ...) and also other coding work done
(for example making foomatic-rip ready for the PDF workflow,
modularizing the built-in drivers of GhostScript, so that they can plug
into other renderers like XPDF/libpoppler).

The application deadline is Monday (March 12), see

http://code.google.com/support/bin/answer.py?answer=60302&topic=10727

Application instructions are here:
http://groups.google.com/group/google-summer-of-code-announce/web/gsoc-mentor-organization-application-how-to

As you cannot access the application form without a valid Google
account, See the questions asked in the form here:

http://code.google.com/support/bin/answer.py?answer=60303&topic=10727&ctx=sibling

One needs an administrator a backup for the administrator and mentors
for supervising the students.

I could do the administrator's job and also be mentor for
Foomatic-related projects and perhaps also for the modularization of the
GhostScript drivers.

Ira, could you be the administrator's backup?

Claudia, could you be mentor for JTAPI subprojects?

Norm, Wendy, could one of you be mentor for PAPI subprojects?

Anyone who I did not mention here, would you also like to enter as a
mentor for one or more subprojects?

Everyone who enters, independent whether as admin or as mentor, needs to
have a Google account. Please create one ASAP if you have non. If you
have a <NAME>@gmail.com e-mail address, you have a Google account with
user name <NAME>. Log into your account and then click the following
link to see the application form:

http://code.google.com/soc/org_signup.html

I do not know whether one needs an invitation to get a Google account.
If so, tell me and I will invite you.

Now to the questions of the application form, here are they and I have
partially filled in the answers. Please fill in the blanks and improve
my answers. Fill in also your Google account names in case you participate.

The page for project ideas is

http://www.linux-foundation.org/en/OpenPrinting/GoSC2007

and it is linked in the application form. Please fill in your project
ideas there. Page should not be empty when we submit our application.


General
-------

1. What is your Organization's Name?

OpenPrinting

2. What is your Organization's Homepage?

http://www.openprinting.org/

3. Describe your organization.

The goal of the OpenPrinting workgroup is to develop and promote a set
of standards that will address the needs of desktop to enterprise-ready
printing, including management, reliability, security, scalability,
printer feature access and network accessibility.

OpenPrinting also provides the most comprehensive printer compatibility
database, Foomatic, with its printer driver integration framework. This
system turned a de-facto standard which is used by all Linux
distributions and SUN Solaris.

[ Probably more needed ]

4. Why is your organization applying to participate in GSoC 2007? What
do you hope to gain by participating?



5. Did your organization participate in GSoC 2005 or 2006? If so, please
summarize your involvement and the sucesses and failures of your student
projects. (optional)

No, we did not participate.

6. If your organization has not previously participated in GSoC, have
you applied in the past? If so, for what year(s)? (optional)

No, this is our first application.

7. What license does your project use?

PAPI, JTAPI, ...:
Foomatic: GPL
Downloadable drivers and PPDs: Licenses of the upstream suppliers, for
most PPDs MIT.

8. URL for your ideas page

http://www.linux-foundation.org/en/OpenPrinting/GoSC2007

9. What is the main development mailing list for your organization?

printing-architecture Mailing List,
http://lists.freestandards.org/mailman/listinfo/printing-architecture

10. Where is the main IRC channel for your organization?

We are not using IRC currently.

11. Does your organization have an application template you would like
to see students use? If so, please provide it now. (optional)



12. Who will be your backup organization administrator? Please enter
their Google Account address. We will email them to confirm, your
organization will not become active until they respond. (optional)

Ira McDonald (???@gmail.com)



About Your Mentors
------------------

1. What criteria did you use to select these individuals as mentors?
Please be as specific as possible.



2. Who will your mentors be? Please enter their Google Account address
separated by commas. If your organization is accepted we will email each
mentor to invite them to take part. (optional)

Till Kamppeter
Claudia Alimpich
Norm Jacobs
Wendy Philips



About The Program
-----------------

1. What is your plan for dealing with disappearing students?



2. What is your plan for dealing with disappearing mentors?



3. What steps will you take to encourage students to interact with your
project's community before, during and after the program?



4. What will you do to ensure that your accepted students stick with the
project after GSoC concludes?




Can you please give your answers and suggestions as soon as possible, as
the deadline is already on Monday. Google will decide on which
organizations participate on Wednesday March 14.

   Till

Re: [Printing-architecture] Application of OpenPrinting as Mentoring Organization for the Google Summer of Code 2007

[McDonald, Ira]

Hi Till,

Yes - I'd be willing to be backup administrator.

One VERY important change is to fix the overly narrow
OP scope - PLEASE fix this on OP home page as well.

Change scope of OP from (below in your application):

The goal of the OpenPrinting workgroup is to develop and promote a set
of standards that will address the needs of desktop to enterprise-ready
printing, including management, reliability, security, scalability,
printer feature access and network accessibility.

To (correct):

The goal of the OpenPrinting workgroup is to develop and promote a set
of standards that will address the complete printing needs of embedded, mobile, desktop, enterprise, and production environments, including management, reliability, security, scalability,
printer feature access and network accessibility.

Cheers,
- Ira

Ira McDonald (Musician / Software Architect)
Chair - Linux Foundation Open Printing WG
Blue Roof Music / High North Inc
PO Box 221  Grand Marais, MI  49839
phone: +1-906-494-2434
email: imcdonald@sharplabs.com

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Subject: [Printing-architecture] Application of OpenPrinting as
Mentoring Organization for the Google Summer of Code 2007


Hi,

I wanted to make this an agenda item for the call yesterday, but for
technical reasons there was no call possible yesterday.

I would like the OpenPrinting project being a mentoring organization in
the Google Summer of Code 2007 (GSoC). This gives us some manpower to
get APIs implemented (PAPI, JTAPI, ...) and also other coding work done
(for example making foomatic-rip ready for the PDF workflow,
modularizing the built-in drivers of GhostScript, so that they can plug
into other renderers like XPDF/libpoppler).

The application deadline is Monday (March 12), see

http://code.google.com/support/bin/answer.py?answer=60302&topic=10727

Application instructions are here:
http://groups.google.com/group/google-summer-of-code-announce/web/gsoc-mentor-organization-application-how-to

As you cannot access the application form without a valid Google
account, See the questions asked in the form here:

http://code.google.com/support/bin/answer.py?answer=60303&topic=10727&ctx=sibling

One needs an administrator a backup for the administrator and mentors
for supervising the students.

I could do the administrator's job and also be mentor for
Foomatic-related projects and perhaps also for the modularization of the
GhostScript drivers.

Ira, could you be the administrator's backup?

Claudia, could you be mentor for JTAPI subprojects?

Norm, Wendy, could one of you be mentor for PAPI subprojects?

Anyone who I did not mention here, would you also like to enter as a
mentor for one or more subprojects?

Everyone who enters, independent whether as admin or as mentor, needs to
have a Google account. Please create one ASAP if you have non. If you
have a <NAME>@gmail.com e-mail address, you have a Google account with
user name <NAME>. Log into your account and then click the following
link to see the application form:

http://code.google.com/soc/org_signup.html

I do not know whether one needs an invitation to get a Google account.
If so, tell me and I will invite you.

Now to the questions of the application form, here are they and I have
partially filled in the answers. Please fill in the blanks and improve
my answers. Fill in also your Google account names in case you participate.

The page for project ideas is

http://www.linux-foundation.org/en/OpenPrinting/GoSC2007

and it is linked in the application form. Please fill in your project
ideas there. Page should not be empty when we submit our application.


General
-------

1. What is your Organization's Name?

OpenPrinting

2. What is your Organization's Homepage?

http://www.openprinting.org/

3. Describe your organization.

The goal of the OpenPrinting workgroup is to develop and promote a set
of standards that will address the needs of desktop to enterprise-ready
printing, including management, reliability, security, scalability,
printer feature access and network accessibility.
OpenPrinting also provides the most comprehensive printer compatibility
database, Foomatic, with its printer driver integration framework. This
system turned a de-facto standard which is used by all Linux
distributions and SUN Solaris.

[ Probably more needed ]

4. Why is your organization applying to participate in GSoC 2007? What
do you hope to gain by participating?



5. Did your organization participate in GSoC 2005 or 2006? If so, please
summarize your involvement and the sucesses and failures of your student
projects. (optional)

No, we did not participate.

6. If your organization has not previously participated in GSoC, have
you applied in the past? If so, for what year(s)? (optional)

No, this is our first application.

7. What license does your project use?

PAPI, JTAPI, ...:
Foomatic: GPL
Downloadable drivers and PPDs: Licenses of the upstream suppliers, for
most PPDs MIT.

8. URL for your ideas page

http://www.linux-foundation.org/en/OpenPrinting/GoSC2007

9. What is the main development mailing list for your organization?

printing-architecture Mailing List,
http://lists.freestandards.org/mailman/listinfo/printing-architecture

10. Where is the main IRC channel for your organization?

We are not using IRC currently.

11. Does your organization have an application template you would like
to see students use? If so, please provide it now. (optional)



12. Who will be your backup organization administrator? Please enter
their Google Account address. We will email them to confirm, your
organization will not become active until they respond. (optional)

Ira McDonald (???@gmail.com)



About Your Mentors
------------------

1. What criteria did you use to select these individuals as mentors?
Please be as specific as possible.



2. Who will your mentors be? Please enter their Google Account address
separated by commas. If your organization is accepted we will email each
mentor to invite them to take part. (optional)

Till Kamppeter
Claudia Alimpich
Norm Jacobs
Wendy Philips



About The Program
-----------------

1. What is your plan for dealing with disappearing students?



2. What is your plan for dealing with disappearing mentors?



3. What steps will you take to encourage students to interact with your
project's community before, during and after the program?



4. What will you do to ensure that your accepted students stick with the
project after GSoC concludes?




Can you please give your answers and suggestions as soon as possible, as
the deadline is already on Monday. Google will decide on which
organizations participate on Wednesday March 14.

   Till

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Re: [Printing-architecture] Application of OpenPrinting as Mentoring Organization for the Google Summer of Code 2007

[Till Kamppeter]

McDonald, Ira wrote:
> Hi Till,
> 
> Yes - I'd be willing to be backup administrator.
> 

Great, Thanks.

Do you already have your Google account? What is the user name. you need
to have a Google account for the application.

> One VERY important change is to fix the overly narrow
> OP scope - PLEASE fix this on OP home page as well.
> 
> Change scope of OP from (below in your application):
> 
> The goal of the OpenPrinting workgroup is to develop and promote a set
> of standards that will address the needs of desktop to enterprise-ready
> printing, including management, reliability, security, scalability,
> printer feature access and network accessibility.
> 
> To (correct):
> 
> The goal of the OpenPrinting workgroup is to develop and promote a set
> of standards that will address the complete printing needs of embedded, mobile, desktop, enterprise, and production environments, including management, reliability, security, scalability,
> printer feature access and network accessibility.
>

Thanks. Can you also lokk into the list of questions in my e-mail and
help me to fill everything in? Especially also what we will do if a
student or a mentor disappears, why we are applying, ...

Can you also add your ideas of student projects to our ideas page?

Claudia, Norm, Wendy, Glen, what about your participation?

Thanks.

   Till

Re: [Printing-architecture] Application of OpenPrinting as Mentoring Organization for the Google Summer of Code 2007

[Till Kamppeter]

McDonald, Ira wrote:
> One VERY important change is to fix the overly narrow
> OP scope - PLEASE fix this on OP home page as well.
> 
> Change scope of OP from (below in your application):
> 
> The goal of the OpenPrinting workgroup is to develop and promote a set
> of standards that will address the needs of desktop to enterprise-ready
> printing, including management, reliability, security, scalability,
> printer feature access and network accessibility.
> 
> To (correct):
> 
> The goal of the OpenPrinting workgroup is to develop and promote a set
> of standards that will address the complete printing needs of embedded, mobile, desktop, enterprise, and production environments, including management, reliability, security, scalability,
> printer feature access and network accessibility.

Thanks, I have fixed it on both the front page and the developer page of
OpenPrinting.

   Till

Re: [Printing-architecture] Application of OpenPrinting as Mentoring Organization for the Google Summer of Code 2007

[McDonald, Ira]

Hi Till,

See my additions below in the GSoC form, surrounded by
square brackets (e.g., "[ Ira - ... ]").

The license on JTAPI is MIT - don't know the answer for
PAPI - Norm?

My longstanding Google account is "blueroofmusic@gmail.com".

Hope this helps.

Cheers,
- Ira

Ira McDonald (Musician / Software Architect)
Chair - Linux Foundation Open Printing WG
Blue Roof Music / High North Inc
PO Box 221  Grand Marais, MI  49839
phone: +1-906-494-2434
email: imcdonald@sharplabs.com

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Of Till Kamppeter
Sent: Thursday, March 08, 2007 2:53 PM
To: printing-architecture@lists.freestandards.org; Printing-Sc (E-mail);
printing-japan@lists.freestandards.org
Cc: Jim Zemlin; 'Ian Murdock'
Subject: [Printing-architecture] Application of OpenPrinting as
Mentoring Organization for the Google Summer of Code 2007


Hi,

I wanted to make this an agenda item for the call yesterday, but for
technical reasons there was no call possible yesterday.

I would like the OpenPrinting project being a mentoring organization in
the Google Summer of Code 2007 (GSoC). This gives us some manpower to
get APIs implemented (PAPI, JTAPI, ...) and also other coding work done
(for example making foomatic-rip ready for the PDF workflow,
modularizing the built-in drivers of GhostScript, so that they can plug
into other renderers like XPDF/libpoppler).

The application deadline is Monday (March 12), see

http://code.google.com/support/bin/answer.py?answer=60302&topic=10727

Application instructions are here:
http://groups.google.com/group/google-summer-of-code-announce/web/gsoc-mentor-organization-application-how-to

As you cannot access the application form without a valid Google
account, See the questions asked in the form here:

http://code.google.com/support/bin/answer.py?answer=60303&topic=10727&ctx=sibling

One needs an administrator a backup for the administrator and mentors
for supervising the students.

I could do the administrator's job and also be mentor for
Foomatic-related projects and perhaps also for the modularization of the
GhostScript drivers.

Ira, could you be the administrator's backup?

Claudia, could you be mentor for JTAPI subprojects?

Norm, Wendy, could one of you be mentor for PAPI subprojects?

Anyone who I did not mention here, would you also like to enter as a
mentor for one or more subprojects?

Everyone who enters, independent whether as admin or as mentor, needs to
have a Google account. Please create one ASAP if you have non. If you
have a <NAME>@gmail.com e-mail address, you have a Google account with
user name <NAME>. Log into your account and then click the following
link to see the application form:

http://code.google.com/soc/org_signup.html

I do not know whether one needs an invitation to get a Google account.
If so, tell me and I will invite you.

Now to the questions of the application form, here are they and I have
partially filled in the answers. Please fill in the blanks and improve
my answers. Fill in also your Google account names in case you participate.

The page for project ideas is

http://www.linux-foundation.org/en/OpenPrinting/GoSC2007

and it is linked in the application form. Please fill in your project
ideas there. Page should not be empty when we submit our application.


General
-------

1. What is your Organization's Name?

OpenPrinting

2. What is your Organization's Homepage?

http://www.openprinting.org/

3. Describe your organization.

The goal of the OpenPrinting workgroup is to develop and promote a set
of standards that will address the needs of desktop to enterprise-ready
printing, including management, reliability, security, scalability,
printer feature access and network accessibility.

OpenPrinting also provides the most comprehensive printer compatibility
database, Foomatic, with its printer driver integration framework. This
system turned a de-facto standard which is used by all Linux
distributions and SUN Solaris.

[ Probably more needed ]
[ Ira - I think not - this should be concise]

4. Why is your organization applying to participate in GSoC 2007? What
do you hope to gain by participating?

[ Ira - We want to get complete implementations of Open Printing API
modules into the common Linux distributions, in order to add them to
the Linux Standard Base (LSB) in the 4.0 release ]


5. Did your organization participate in GSoC 2005 or 2006? If so, please
summarize your involvement and the sucesses and failures of your student
projects. (optional)

No, we did not participate.

6. If your organization has not previously participated in GSoC, have
you applied in the past? If so, for what year(s)? (optional)

No, this is our first application.

7. What license does your project use?

PAPI:  ...
JTAPI:  MIT
Foomatic:  GPL
Downloadable drivers and PPDs: Licenses of the upstream suppliers, for
most PPDs MIT.

8. URL for your ideas page

http://www.linux-foundation.org/en/OpenPrinting/GoSC2007

9. What is the main development mailing list for your organization?

printing-architecture Mailing List,
http://lists.freestandards.org/mailman/listinfo/printing-architecture

10. Where is the main IRC channel for your organization?

We are not using IRC currently.

11. Does your organization have an application template you would like
to see students use? If so, please provide it now. (optional)



12. Who will be your backup organization administrator? Please enter
their Google Account address. We will email them to confirm, your
organization will not become active until they respond. (optional)

Ira McDonald (blueroofmusic@gmail.com)



About Your Mentors
------------------

1. What criteria did you use to select these individuals as mentors?
Please be as specific as possible.

[ Ira - We selected working group chairs and/or principal editors for
the various Open Printing APIs. ]


2. Who will your mentors be? Please enter their Google Account address
separated by commas. If your organization is accepted we will email each
mentor to invite them to take part. (optional)

Till Kamppeter
Claudia Alimpich
Norm Jacobs
Wendy Philips



About The Program
-----------------

1. What is your plan for dealing with disappearing students?

[ Ira - We will transition their work-in-progress to a caretaker
(i.e., the appropriate mentor) ]


2. What is your plan for dealing with disappearing mentors?

[ Ira - We will transition their mentor role to another active
member of appropriate Open Printing working group ]


3. What steps will you take to encourage students to interact with your
project's community before, during and after the program?

[ Ira - We hold annual Printing Summit face-to-face conferences.
We will attend other Linux professional conferences and shows as
time and funding permits. ]


4. What will you do to ensure that your accepted students stick with the
project after GSoC concludes?

[ Ira - frankly it seems unlikely that they will - IMHO ]


Can you please give your answers and suggestions as soon as possible, as
the deadline is already on Monday. Google will decide on which
organizations participate on Wednesday March 14.

   Till

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Re: [Printing-architecture] Application of OpenPrinting as Mentoring Organization for the Google Summer of Code 2007

[Till Kamppeter]

Thank you very much, Ira.

Can you also add some projecty descriptions on

http://www.linux-foundation.org/en/OpenPrinting/GoSC2007

This is a Wiki, create an account and write. Formatting instructions at
mediawiki.org.

Norm, Wendy, Claudia, ..., can you also add you project descriptions to
mentioned Wiki page and also provide your Google account names (create a
Google account if you have none).

   Till

McDonald, Ira wrote:
> Hi Till,
> 
> See my additions below in the GSoC form, surrounded by
> square brackets (e.g., "[ Ira - ... ]").
> 
> The license on JTAPI is MIT - don't know the answer for
> PAPI - Norm?
> 
> My longstanding Google account is "blueroofmusic@gmail.com".
> 
> Hope this helps.
> 
> Cheers,
> - Ira
> 
> Ira McDonald (Musician / Software Architect)
> Chair - Linux Foundation Open Printing WG
> Blue Roof Music / High North Inc
> PO Box 221  Grand Marais, MI  49839
> phone: +1-906-494-2434
> email: imcdonald@sharplabs.com
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: printing-architecture-bounces@lists.freestandards.org
> [mailto:printing-architecture-bounces@lists.freestandards.org]On Behalf
> Of Till Kamppeter
> Sent: Thursday, March 08, 2007 2:53 PM
> To: printing-architecture@lists.freestandards.org; Printing-Sc (E-mail);
> printing-japan@lists.freestandards.org
> Cc: Jim Zemlin; 'Ian Murdock'
> Subject: [Printing-architecture] Application of OpenPrinting as
> Mentoring Organization for the Google Summer of Code 2007
> 
> 
> Hi,
> 
> I wanted to make this an agenda item for the call yesterday, but for
> technical reasons there was no call possible yesterday.
> 
> I would like the OpenPrinting project being a mentoring organization in
> the Google Summer of Code 2007 (GSoC). This gives us some manpower to
> get APIs implemented (PAPI, JTAPI, ...) and also other coding work done
> (for example making foomatic-rip ready for the PDF workflow,
> modularizing the built-in drivers of GhostScript, so that they can plug
> into other renderers like XPDF/libpoppler).
> 
> The application deadline is Monday (March 12), see
> 
> http://code.google.com/support/bin/answer.py?answer=60302&topic=10727
> 
> Application instructions are here:
> http://groups.google.com/group/google-summer-of-code-announce/web/gsoc-mentor-organization-application-how-to
> 
> As you cannot access the application form without a valid Google
> account, See the questions asked in the form here:
> 
> http://code.google.com/support/bin/answer.py?answer=60303&topic=10727&ctx=sibling
> 
> One needs an administrator a backup for the administrator and mentors
> for supervising the students.
> 
> I could do the administrator's job and also be mentor for
> Foomatic-related projects and perhaps also for the modularization of the
> GhostScript drivers.
> 
> Ira, could you be the administrator's backup?
> 
> Claudia, could you be mentor for JTAPI subprojects?
> 
> Norm, Wendy, could one of you be mentor for PAPI subprojects?
> 
> Anyone who I did not mention here, would you also like to enter as a
> mentor for one or more subprojects?
> 
> Everyone who enters, independent whether as admin or as mentor, needs to
> have a Google account. Please create one ASAP if you have non. If you
> have a <NAME>@gmail.com e-mail address, you have a Google account with
> user name <NAME>. Log into your account and then click the following
> link to see the application form:
> 
> http://code.google.com/soc/org_signup.html
> 
> I do not know whether one needs an invitation to get a Google account.
> If so, tell me and I will invite you.
> 
> Now to the questions of the application form, here are they and I have
> partially filled in the answers. Please fill in the blanks and improve
> my answers. Fill in also your Google account names in case you participate.
> 
> The page for project ideas is
> 
> http://www.linux-foundation.org/en/OpenPrinting/GoSC2007
> 
> and it is linked in the application form. Please fill in your project
> ideas there. Page should not be empty when we submit our application.
> 
> 
> General
> -------
> 
> 1. What is your Organization's Name?
> 
> OpenPrinting
> 
> 2. What is your Organization's Homepage?
> 
> http://www.openprinting.org/
> 
> 3. Describe your organization.
> 
> The goal of the OpenPrinting workgroup is to develop and promote a set
> of standards that will address the needs of desktop to enterprise-ready
> printing, including management, reliability, security, scalability,
> printer feature access and network accessibility.
> 
> OpenPrinting also provides the most comprehensive printer compatibility
> database, Foomatic, with its printer driver integration framework. This
> system turned a de-facto standard which is used by all Linux
> distributions and SUN Solaris.
> 
> [ Probably more needed ]
> [ Ira - I think not - this should be concise]
> 
> 4. Why is your organization applying to participate in GSoC 2007? What
> do you hope to gain by participating?
> 
> [ Ira - We want to get complete implementations of Open Printing API
> modules into the common Linux distributions, in order to add them to
> the Linux Standard Base (LSB) in the 4.0 release ]
> 
> 
> 5. Did your organization participate in GSoC 2005 or 2006? If so, please
> summarize your involvement and the sucesses and failures of your student
> projects. (optional)
> 
> No, we did not participate.
> 
> 6. If your organization has not previously participated in GSoC, have
> you applied in the past? If so, for what year(s)? (optional)
> 
> No, this is our first application.
> 
> 7. What license does your project use?
> 
> PAPI:  ...
> JTAPI:  MIT
> Foomatic:  GPL
> Downloadable drivers and PPDs: Licenses of the upstream suppliers, for
> most PPDs MIT.
> 
> 8. URL for your ideas page
> 
> http://www.linux-foundation.org/en/OpenPrinting/GoSC2007
> 
> 9. What is the main development mailing list for your organization?
> 
> printing-architecture Mailing List,
> http://lists.freestandards.org/mailman/listinfo/printing-architecture
> 
> 10. Where is the main IRC channel for your organization?
> 
> We are not using IRC currently.
> 
> 11. Does your organization have an application template you would like
> to see students use? If so, please provide it now. (optional)
> 
> 
> 
> 12. Who will be your backup organization administrator? Please enter
> their Google Account address. We will email them to confirm, your
> organization will not become active until they respond. (optional)
> 
> Ira McDonald (blueroofmusic@gmail.com)
> 
> 
> 
> About Your Mentors
> ------------------
> 
> 1. What criteria did you use to select these individuals as mentors?
> Please be as specific as possible.
> 
> [ Ira - We selected working group chairs and/or principal editors for
> the various Open Printing APIs. ]
> 
> 
> 2. Who will your mentors be? Please enter their Google Account address
> separated by commas. If your organization is accepted we will email each
> mentor to invite them to take part. (optional)
> 
> Till Kamppeter
> Claudia Alimpich
> Norm Jacobs
> Wendy Philips
> 
> 
> 
> About The Program
> -----------------
> 
> 1. What is your plan for dealing with disappearing students?
> 
> [ Ira - We will transition their work-in-progress to a caretaker
> (i.e., the appropriate mentor) ]
> 
> 
> 2. What is your plan for dealing with disappearing mentors?
> 
> [ Ira - We will transition their mentor role to another active
> member of appropriate Open Printing working group ]
> 
> 
> 3. What steps will you take to encourage students to interact with your
> project's community before, during and after the program?
> 
> [ Ira - We hold annual Printing Summit face-to-face conferences.
> We will attend other Linux professional conferences and shows as
> time and funding permits. ]
> 
> 
> 4. What will you do to ensure that your accepted students stick with the
> project after GSoC concludes?
> 
> [ Ira - frankly it seems unlikely that they will - IMHO ]
> 
> 
> Can you please give your answers and suggestions as soon as possible, as
> the deadline is already on Monday. Google will decide on which
> organizations participate on Wednesday March 14.
> 
>    Till
> 
> _______________________________________________
> Printing-architecture mailing list
> Printing-architecture@lists.freestandards.org
> http://lists.freestandards.org/mailman/listinfo/printing-architecture
> 

Re: [Printing-architecture] Application of OpenPrinting as Mentoring Organization for the Google Summer of Code 2007

[Till Kamppeter]

I have added the first project suggestion to

http://www.linux-foundation.org/en/OpenPrinting/GoSC2007

   Till


McDonald, Ira wrote:
> Hi Till,
> 
> See my additions below in the GSoC form, surrounded by
> square brackets (e.g., "[ Ira - ... ]").
> 
> The license on JTAPI is MIT - don't know the answer for
> PAPI - Norm?
> 
> My longstanding Google account is "blueroofmusic@gmail.com".
> 

Re: [Printing-architecture] Application of OpenPrinting as Mentoring Organization for the Google Summer of Code 2007

[Till Kamppeter]

I have added more to the projects page.

Would someone of the OpenPrinting Vector developers volunteer to be
mentor for the GhostScript built-in driver modularization? Feel free to
edit the project description.

Claudia, would you be mentor for the JTAPI implementation and also add a
project description?

   Till

Till Kamppeter wrote:
> I have added the first project suggestion to
> 
> http://www.linux-foundation.org/en/OpenPrinting/GoSC2007
> 
>    Till
> 
> 
> McDonald, Ira wrote:
>> Hi Till,
>>
>> See my additions below in the GSoC form, surrounded by
>> square brackets (e.g., "[ Ira - ... ]").
>>
>> The license on JTAPI is MIT - don't know the answer for
>> PAPI - Norm?
>>
>> My longstanding Google account is "blueroofmusic@gmail.com".
>>
> 
> 

Re: [Printing-architecture] Application of OpenPrinting as Mentoring Organization for the Google Summer of Code 2007

[Till Kamppeter]

Here is some general info for mentoring organizations:

http://code.google.com/p/google-summer-of-code/wiki/AdviceforMentors

   Till

Re: [Printing-architecture] [Printing-sc] Application of OpenPrinting as Mentoring Organization for the Google Summer of Code 2007

[TORATANI Yasumasa]

Hi,

Some of the Japan side opvp developer know;
- OPVP interface
- "opvp" implementation as the Ghostscript driver
- Some OPVP complianced modularized driver for a few PDLs.
So, they will be able to make suggestions for OPVP specific issues.

On the other hand, there are few engineers who know the Ghostscript
inside code in detail, or other type of many Ghostscript built in drivers,
such as x11*, tiff*, png*, pswrite, pdfwrite, and many drivers for seveal
printer vendor's PDL., such as dj*, lp*, lex*, pcx*, etc.

If we ask someone to modify these drivers as modularized, I think we
need volunteers who know these driver's code in dtail.

BTW, do we need to modify all the Ghostscript built-in drivers as
modularized? If we do not have to, the priority list of the drivers that
we need to modularize might be helpful for asking someone to be
volunteers.

TORATANI.

On Sun, 11 Mar 2007 00:57:11 +0000
Till Kamppeter <till.kamppeter@gmail.com> wrote:

> I have added more to the projects page.
> 
> Would someone of the OpenPrinting Vector developers volunteer to be
> mentor for the GhostScript built-in driver modularization? Feel free to
> edit the project description.
> 
> Claudia, would you be mentor for the JTAPI implementation and also add a
> project description?
> 
>    Till
> 
> Till Kamppeter wrote:
> > I have added the first project suggestion to
> > 
> > http://www.linux-foundation.org/en/OpenPrinting/GoSC2007
> > 
> >    Till
> > 
> > 
> > McDonald, Ira wrote:
> >> Hi Till,
> >>
> >> See my additions below in the GSoC form, surrounded by
> >> square brackets (e.g., "[ Ira - ... ]").
> >>
> >> The license on JTAPI is MIT - don't know the answer for
> >> PAPI - Norm?
> >>
> >> My longstanding Google account is "blueroofmusic@gmail.com".
> >>
> > 
> > 
> 
> _______________________________________________
> Printing-sc mailing list
> Printing-sc@lists.freestandards.org
> http://lists.freestandards.org/mailman/listinfo/printing-sc

-----------------------------------------
TORATANI Yasumasa
Software Engineering Dept.23
Platform Technology Development Headquarters, CANON INC.

Re: [Printing-architecture] [Printing-sc] Application of OpenPrinting as Mentoring Organization for the Google Summer of Code 2007

[Till Kamppeter]

TORATANI Yasumasa wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> Some of the Japan side opvp developer know;
> - OPVP interface
> - "opvp" implementation as the Ghostscript driver
> - Some OPVP complianced modularized driver for a few PDLs.
> So, they will be able to make suggestions for OPVP specific issues.
> 
> On the other hand, there are few engineers who know the Ghostscript
> inside code in detail, or other type of many Ghostscript built in drivers,
> such as x11*, tiff*, png*, pswrite, pdfwrite, and many drivers for seveal
> printer vendor's PDL., such as dj*, lp*, lex*, pcx*, etc.
> 
> If we ask someone to modify these drivers as modularized, I think we
> need volunteers who know these driver's code in dtail.
> 
> BTW, do we need to modify all the Ghostscript built-in drivers as
> modularized? If we do not have to, the priority list of the drivers that
> we need to modularize might be helpful for asking someone to be
> volunteers.
> 

One thing I thought about was making an interface between OPVP and the
internal API of GhostScript so that it can be compiled with any
GhostScript built-in driver, to convert them all with one effort. I
though t that you could probably mentor such a thing as you have written
the opvp device for GhostScript.

Perhaps we need someone of GhostScript as co-mentor for that. Raph,
Ralph, would you volunteer for that? If so, please tell today, as we
have to submit the application of the Google Summer of Code today (and
supply a Google user names as it is required for the application).

Another thing would be to write new, more flexible and modern drivers
for common languages like PCL-5e, PCL-5c, PCL-XL. This would be a new
project idea to post on our project ideas Wiki.

   Till

Re: [Printing-architecture] [Printing-sc] Application of OpenPrinting as Mentoring Organization for the Google Summer of Code 2007

[Till Kamppeter]

Ralph Giles wrote:
> I'm willing to help, but don't have time to be an official mentor for 
> this. My google account is giles@xiph.org.

So as two mentors per project are recommended, you could get co-mentor
and principal mentor will be someone from the OPVP team. Would this be
OK for you?

Who from the OPVP team likes to volunteer as main mentor?

   Till

Re: [Printing-architecture] Application of OpenPrinting as Mentoring Organization for the Google Summer of Code 2007

[Till Kamppeter]

IMPORTANT: Everything which is needed is needed today, in the next 2-3
hours!

Below is the up-to date state of the application form. We should go
through the points during the call. We should also complete the project
ideas page:

http://www.linux-foundation.org/en/OpenPrinting/GSoC2007

(Note the typo correction in the address. I have already corrected it on
the server and in the application form).

Especially we should write something about the JTAPI and PAPI
implementation. Claudia, Norm, Wendy, Ira?

In the application form we still need:

General (7): License for PAPI

About your mentors (2): Google user names for

 - Claudia Alimpich -
 - Norm Jacobs
 - Wendy Philips
 - Yasumasa Toratani (Or who else will mentor OPVP-related stuff)

About the program (4): We need a somewhat better answer here.

   Till


-------------------------------------------------------------------


General
-------


1. What is your Organization's Name?

OpenPrinting


2. What is your Organization's Homepage?

http://www.openprinting.org/


3. Describe your organization.

The goal of the OpenPrinting workgroup is to develop and promote a set
of standards that will address the complete printing needs of embedded,
mobile, desktop, enterprise, and production environments, including
management, reliability, security, scalability, printer feature access
and network accessibility.

OpenPrinting also provides the most comprehensive printer compatibility
database, Foomatic, with its printer driver integration framework. This
system turned a de-facto standard which is used by all Linux
distributions and SUN Solaris.


4. Why is your organization applying to participate in GSoC 2007? What
do you hope to gain by participating?

We want to get complete implementations of OpenPrinting API
modules into the common Linux distributions, in order to add them to
the Linux Standard Base (LSB) in the 4.0 release ]


5. Did your organization participate in GSoC 2005 or 2006? If so, please
summarize your involvement and the sucesses and failures of your student
projects. (optional)

No, we did not participate.


6. If your organization has not previously participated in GSoC, have
you applied in the past? If so, for what year(s)? (optional)

No, this is our first application.


7. What license does your project use?

PAPI:  ...
JTAPI:  MIT
Foomatic:  GPL
Downloadable drivers and PPDs: Licenses of the upstream suppliers, for
most PPDs MIT.


8. URL for your ideas page

http://www.linux-foundation.org/en/OpenPrinting/GSoC2007


9. What is the main development mailing list for your organization?

printing-architecture Mailing List,
http://lists.freestandards.org/mailman/listinfo/printing-architecture


10. Where is the main IRC channel for your organization?

We are not using IRC currently.


11. Does your organization have an application template you would like
to see students use? If so, please provide it now. (optional)


12. Who will be your backup organization administrator? Please enter
their Google Account address. We will email them to confirm, your
organization will not become active until they respond. (optional)

Ira McDonald - blueroofmusic@gmail.com




About Your Mentors
------------------


1. What criteria did you use to select these individuals as mentors?
Please be as specific as possible.

We selected working group chairs and/or principal editors/developers for
the various
OpenPrinting APIs and components.


2. Who will your mentors be? Please enter their Google Account address
separated by commas. If your organization is accepted we will email each
mentor to invite them to take part. (optional)

Till Kamppeter - till.kamppeter@gmail.com
Ira McDonald - blueroofmusic@gmail.com
Claudia Alimpich -
Norm Jacobs -
Wendy Philips -
Yasumasa Toratani -
Ralph Giles - giles@xiph.org


About The Program
-----------------


1. What is your plan for dealing with disappearing students?

We will transition their work-in-progress to a caretaker

(i.e., the appropriate mentor)


2. What is your plan for dealing with disappearing mentors?

We will transition their mentor role to another active
member of appropriate OpenPrinting working group


3. What steps will you take to encourage students to interact with your
project's community before, during and after the program?

We hold annual Printing Summit face-to-face conferences.
We will attend other Linux professional conferences and shows as
time and funding permits.


4. What will you do to ensure that your accepted students stick with the
project after GSoC concludes?

> [ Ira - frankly it seems unlikely that they will - IMHO ]

Re: [Printing-architecture] [Printing-sc] Application of OpenPrinting as Mentoring Organization for the Google Summer of Code 2007

[TORATANI Yasumasa]

I'm interested in the GSoC activity, but I'm sorry I do not have
enough time to work for it. I know some engineers who know
OPVP and "opvp" driver code as well as xpdf etc, however,
2-3 hours ristriction is very short for asking them.

TORATANI.

On Mon, 12 Mar 2007 22:31:57 +0000
Till Kamppeter <till.kamppeter@gmail.com> wrote:

> IMPORTANT: Everything which is needed is needed today, in the next 2-3
> hours!
> 
> Below is the up-to date state of the application form. We should go
> through the points during the call. We should also complete the project
> ideas page:
> 
> http://www.linux-foundation.org/en/OpenPrinting/GSoC2007
> 
> (Note the typo correction in the address. I have already corrected it on
> the server and in the application form).
> 
> Especially we should write something about the JTAPI and PAPI
> implementation. Claudia, Norm, Wendy, Ira?
> 
> In the application form we still need:
> 
> General (7): License for PAPI
> 
> About your mentors (2): Google user names for
> 
>  - Claudia Alimpich -
>  - Norm Jacobs
>  - Wendy Philips
>  - Yasumasa Toratani (Or who else will mentor OPVP-related stuff)
> 
> About the program (4): We need a somewhat better answer here.
> 
>    Till
> 
> 
> -------------------------------------------------------------------
> 
> 
> General
> -------
> 
> 
> 1. What is your Organization's Name?
> 
> OpenPrinting
> 
> 
> 2. What is your Organization's Homepage?
> 
> http://www.openprinting.org/
> 
> 
> 3. Describe your organization.
> 
> The goal of the OpenPrinting workgroup is to develop and promote a set
> of standards that will address the complete printing needs of embedded,
> mobile, desktop, enterprise, and production environments, including
> management, reliability, security, scalability, printer feature access
> and network accessibility.
> 
> OpenPrinting also provides the most comprehensive printer compatibility
> database, Foomatic, with its printer driver integration framework. This
> system turned a de-facto standard which is used by all Linux
> distributions and SUN Solaris.
> 
> 
> 4. Why is your organization applying to participate in GSoC 2007? What
> do you hope to gain by participating?
> 
> We want to get complete implementations of OpenPrinting API
> modules into the common Linux distributions, in order to add them to
> the Linux Standard Base (LSB) in the 4.0 release ]
> 
> 
> 5. Did your organization participate in GSoC 2005 or 2006? If so, please
> summarize your involvement and the sucesses and failures of your student
> projects. (optional)
> 
> No, we did not participate.
> 
> 
> 6. If your organization has not previously participated in GSoC, have
> you applied in the past? If so, for what year(s)? (optional)
> 
> No, this is our first application.
> 
> 
> 7. What license does your project use?
> 
> PAPI:  ...
> JTAPI:  MIT
> Foomatic:  GPL
> Downloadable drivers and PPDs: Licenses of the upstream suppliers, for
> most PPDs MIT.
> 
> 
> 8. URL for your ideas page
> 
> http://www.linux-foundation.org/en/OpenPrinting/GSoC2007
> 
> 
> 9. What is the main development mailing list for your organization?
> 
> printing-architecture Mailing List,
> http://lists.freestandards.org/mailman/listinfo/printing-architecture
> 
> 
> 10. Where is the main IRC channel for your organization?
> 
> We are not using IRC currently.
> 
> 
> 11. Does your organization have an application template you would like
> to see students use? If so, please provide it now. (optional)
> 
> 
> 12. Who will be your backup organization administrator? Please enter
> their Google Account address. We will email them to confirm, your
> organization will not become active until they respond. (optional)
> 
> Ira McDonald - blueroofmusic@gmail.com
> 
> 
> 
> 
> About Your Mentors
> ------------------
> 
> 
> 1. What criteria did you use to select these individuals as mentors?
> Please be as specific as possible.
> 
> We selected working group chairs and/or principal editors/developers for
> the various
> OpenPrinting APIs and components.
> 
> 
> 2. Who will your mentors be? Please enter their Google Account address
> separated by commas. If your organization is accepted we will email each
> mentor to invite them to take part. (optional)
> 
> Till Kamppeter - till.kamppeter@gmail.com
> Ira McDonald - blueroofmusic@gmail.com
> Claudia Alimpich -
> Norm Jacobs -
> Wendy Philips -
> Yasumasa Toratani -
> Ralph Giles - giles@xiph.org
> 
> 
> About The Program
> -----------------
> 
> 
> 1. What is your plan for dealing with disappearing students?
> 
> We will transition their work-in-progress to a caretaker
> 
> (i.e., the appropriate mentor)
> 
> 
> 2. What is your plan for dealing with disappearing mentors?
> 
> We will transition their mentor role to another active
> member of appropriate OpenPrinting working group
> 
> 
> 3. What steps will you take to encourage students to interact with your
> project's community before, during and after the program?
> 
> We hold annual Printing Summit face-to-face conferences.
> We will attend other Linux professional conferences and shows as
> time and funding permits.
> 
> 
> 4. What will you do to ensure that your accepted students stick with the
> project after GSoC concludes?
> 
> > [ Ira - frankly it seems unlikely that they will - IMHO ]
> 
> _______________________________________________
> Printing-sc mailing list
> Printing-sc@lists.freestandards.org
> http://lists.freestandards.org/mailman/listinfo/printing-sc

-----------------------------------------
TORATANI Yasumasa
Software Engineering Dept.23
Platform Technology Development Headquarters, CANON INC.

Re: [Printing-architecture] [Printing-sc] Application of OpenPrinting as Mentoring Organization for the Google Summer of Code 2007

[Till Kamppeter]

Then put in yourself for now and we will replace you by your co-workers
as soon as you have talked with them. Now we simply need a complete
application.

   Till


TORATANI Yasumasa wrote:
> I'm interested in the GSoC activity, but I'm sorry I do not have
> enough time to work for it. I know some engineers who know
> OPVP and "opvp" driver code as well as xpdf etc, however,
> 2-3 hours ristriction is very short for asking them.
> 
> TORATANI.
> 
> On Mon, 12 Mar 2007 22:31:57 +0000
> Till Kamppeter <till.kamppeter@gmail.com> wrote:
> 
>> IMPORTANT: Everything which is needed is needed today, in the next 2-3
>> hours!
>>
>> Below is the up-to date state of the application form. We should go
>> through the points during the call. We should also complete the project
>> ideas page:
>>
>> http://www.linux-foundation.org/en/OpenPrinting/GSoC2007
>>
>> (Note the typo correction in the address. I have already corrected it on
>> the server and in the application form).
>>
>> Especially we should write something about the JTAPI and PAPI
>> implementation. Claudia, Norm, Wendy, Ira?
>>
>> In the application form we still need:
>>
>> General (7): License for PAPI
>>
>> About your mentors (2): Google user names for
>>
>>  - Claudia Alimpich -
>>  - Norm Jacobs
>>  - Wendy Philips
>>  - Yasumasa Toratani (Or who else will mentor OPVP-related stuff)
>>
>> About the program (4): We need a somewhat better answer here.
>>
>>    Till
>>
>>
>> -------------------------------------------------------------------
>>
>>
>> General
>> -------
>>
>>
>> 1. What is your Organization's Name?
>>
>> OpenPrinting
>>
>>
>> 2. What is your Organization's Homepage?
>>
>> http://www.openprinting.org/
>>
>>
>> 3. Describe your organization.
>>
>> The goal of the OpenPrinting workgroup is to develop and promote a set
>> of standards that will address the complete printing needs of embedded,
>> mobile, desktop, enterprise, and production environments, including
>> management, reliability, security, scalability, printer feature access
>> and network accessibility.
>>
>> OpenPrinting also provides the most comprehensive printer compatibility
>> database, Foomatic, with its printer driver integration framework. This
>> system turned a de-facto standard which is used by all Linux
>> distributions and SUN Solaris.
>>
>>
>> 4. Why is your organization applying to participate in GSoC 2007? What
>> do you hope to gain by participating?
>>
>> We want to get complete implementations of OpenPrinting API
>> modules into the common Linux distributions, in order to add them to
>> the Linux Standard Base (LSB) in the 4.0 release ]
>>
>>
>> 5. Did your organization participate in GSoC 2005 or 2006? If so, please
>> summarize your involvement and the sucesses and failures of your student
>> projects. (optional)
>>
>> No, we did not participate.
>>
>>
>> 6. If your organization has not previously participated in GSoC, have
>> you applied in the past? If so, for what year(s)? (optional)
>>
>> No, this is our first application.
>>
>>
>> 7. What license does your project use?
>>
>> PAPI:  ...
>> JTAPI:  MIT
>> Foomatic:  GPL
>> Downloadable drivers and PPDs: Licenses of the upstream suppliers, for
>> most PPDs MIT.
>>
>>
>> 8. URL for your ideas page
>>
>> http://www.linux-foundation.org/en/OpenPrinting/GSoC2007
>>
>>
>> 9. What is the main development mailing list for your organization?
>>
>> printing-architecture Mailing List,
>> http://lists.freestandards.org/mailman/listinfo/printing-architecture
>>
>>
>> 10. Where is the main IRC channel for your organization?
>>
>> We are not using IRC currently.
>>
>>
>> 11. Does your organization have an application template you would like
>> to see students use? If so, please provide it now. (optional)
>>
>>
>> 12. Who will be your backup organization administrator? Please enter
>> their Google Account address. We will email them to confirm, your
>> organization will not become active until they respond. (optional)
>>
>> Ira McDonald - blueroofmusic@gmail.com
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> About Your Mentors
>> ------------------
>>
>>
>> 1. What criteria did you use to select these individuals as mentors?
>> Please be as specific as possible.
>>
>> We selected working group chairs and/or principal editors/developers for
>> the various
>> OpenPrinting APIs and components.
>>
>>
>> 2. Who will your mentors be? Please enter their Google Account address
>> separated by commas. If your organization is accepted we will email each
>> mentor to invite them to take part. (optional)
>>
>> Till Kamppeter - till.kamppeter@gmail.com
>> Ira McDonald - blueroofmusic@gmail.com
>> Claudia Alimpich -
>> Norm Jacobs -
>> Wendy Philips -
>> Yasumasa Toratani -
>> Ralph Giles - giles@xiph.org
>>
>>
>> About The Program
>> -----------------
>>
>>
>> 1. What is your plan for dealing with disappearing students?
>>
>> We will transition their work-in-progress to a caretaker
>>
>> (i.e., the appropriate mentor)
>>
>>
>> 2. What is your plan for dealing with disappearing mentors?
>>
>> We will transition their mentor role to another active
>> member of appropriate OpenPrinting working group
>>
>>
>> 3. What steps will you take to encourage students to interact with your
>> project's community before, during and after the program?
>>
>> We hold annual Printing Summit face-to-face conferences.
>> We will attend other Linux professional conferences and shows as
>> time and funding permits.
>>
>>
>> 4. What will you do to ensure that your accepted students stick with the
>> project after GSoC concludes?
>>
>>> [ Ira - frankly it seems unlikely that they will - IMHO ]
>> _______________________________________________
>> Printing-sc mailing list
>> Printing-sc@lists.freestandards.org
>> http://lists.freestandards.org/mailman/listinfo/printing-sc
> 
> -----------------------------------------
> TORATANI Yasumasa
> Software Engineering Dept.23
> Platform Technology Development Headquarters, CANON INC.
> 
> 

Re: [Printing-architecture] [Printing-sc] Application of OpenPrinting as Mentoring Organization for the Google Summer of Code 2007

[Norm Jacobs]

Till Kamppeter wrote:
> Then put in yourself for now and we will replace you by your co-workers
> as soon as you have talked with them. Now we simply need a complete
> application.
>
>
>   
PAPI uses CDDL (http://www.*opensource*.org/*license*s/*cddl*1.php)
Given our conversation at the SC meeting, I don't know if we can commit 
the mentoring resources in time for the GSOC.
I just created a google account (norm.jacobs@sun.com).

       -Norm

[Printing-architecture] Application of OpenPrinting as Mentoring Organization for the Google Summer of Code 2007 - Final application

[Till Kamppeter]

At first thank you to everyone for their contributions to this application.

Below is the final state of the application form which I will send out
in the next few minutes.

The ideas page linked in the form is the following and is open for
editing all the time.

http://www.linux-foundation.org/en/OpenPrinting/GSoC2007

(Note the typo correction in the address. I have already corrected it on
the server and in the application form).

The application deadline is today. Google will evaluate the applications
in the next two days and list the accepted mentoring organizations on

http://code.google.com/soc/

Everyone who wants to volunteer to participate as mentor please tell in
the next days, as the call for applications for the students will open
in the next days,

   Till


-------------------------------------------------------------------


General
-------


1. What is your Organization's Name?

OpenPrinting


2. What is your Organization's Homepage?

http://www.openprinting.org/


3. Describe your organization.

The goal of the OpenPrinting workgroup is to develop and promote a set
of standards that will address the complete printing needs of embedded,
mobile, desktop, enterprise, and production environments, including
management, reliability, security, scalability, printer feature access
and network accessibility.

OpenPrinting also provides the most comprehensive printer compatibility
database, Foomatic, with its printer driver integration framework. This
system turned a de-facto standard which is used by all Linux
distributions and SUN Solaris.


4. Why is your organization applying to participate in GSoC 2007? What
do you hope to gain by participating?

We want to get complete implementations of OpenPrinting API
modules into the common Linux distributions, in order to add them to
the Linux Standard Base (LSB) in the 4.0 release. We also want to get
things implemented which we have worked out in the last Printing Summits.


5. Did your organization participate in GSoC 2005 or 2006? If so, please
summarize your involvement and the sucesses and failures of your student
projects. (optional)

No, we did not participate.


6. If your organization has not previously participated in GSoC, have
you applied in the past? If so, for what year(s)? (optional)

No, this is our first application.


7. What license does your project use?

PAPI:  CDDL
JTAPI:  MIT
Foomatic:  GPL
Downloadable drivers and PPDs: Licenses of the upstream suppliers, for
most PPDs MIT.


8. URL for your ideas page

http://www.linux-foundation.org/en/OpenPrinting/GSoC2007


9. What is the main development mailing list for your organization?

printing-architecture Mailing List,
http://lists.freestandards.org/mailman/listinfo/printing-architecture


10. Where is the main IRC channel for your organization?

We are not using IRC currently.


11. Does your organization have an application template you would like
to see students use? If so, please provide it now. (optional)


12. Who will be your backup organization administrator? Please enter
their Google Account address. We will email them to confirm, your
organization will not become active until they respond. (optional)

Ira McDonald - blueroofmusic@gmail.com




About Your Mentors
------------------


1. What criteria did you use to select these individuals as mentors?
Please be as specific as possible.

We selected working group chairs and/or principal editors/developers for
the various OpenPrinting APIs and components.


2. Who will your mentors be? Please enter their Google Account address
separated by commas. If your organization is accepted we will email each
mentor to invite them to take part. (optional)

Till Kamppeter - till.kamppeter@gmail.com
Ira McDonald - blueroofmusic@gmail.com
Norm Jacobs - norm.jacobs@sun.com
Ralph Giles - giles@xiph.org




About The Program
-----------------


1. What is your plan for dealing with disappearing students?

We will transition their work-in-progress to a caretaker

(i.e., the appropriate mentor)


2. What is your plan for dealing with disappearing mentors?

We will transition their mentor role to another active
member of appropriate OpenPrinting working group


3. What steps will you take to encourage students to interact with your
project's community before, during and after the program?

We hold annual Printing Summit face-to-face conferences.
We will attend other Linux professional conferences and shows as
time and funding permits.


4. What will you do to ensure that your accepted students stick with the
project after GSoC concludes?

Try to involve the students in ongoing openprinting activity (invite
them to the next Printing Summit in September in Montreal, get them
being part of the OpenPrinting working group to design the upcoming
standards in printing with Linux, Unix and other operating systems).

[Printing-architecture] Application of OpenPrinting at Google Summer of Code NOT accepted

[Till Kamppeter]

Hi,

unfortunately, our application as mentoring organization on the Google
Summer of Code was not accepted. We missed the deadline for some
minutes. They considered midnight GMT as the end of the application period.

But it is no big problem, once, we do not even have the people to mentor
the student's projects (except the one Foomatic project). Second, we do
not know whether we would really get the work done by the students. Will
there be really students who want to work on PAPI, JTAPI, or
modularizing drivers? And would work on their projects until the end? Or
would they stay in the OpenPrinting workgroup after the Google Summer of
Code?

Perhaps we are better off if we talk with printer manufacturers and with
the Linux Foundation whether they could pay someone (perhaps also
interns) to move the implementation work forward.

I our part of the OpenPrinting work is now to solve the problem with the
implementation, most importantly JTAPI, PAPI, and PDF support for
foomatic-rip.

Should we perhaps also talk with the distributions, whether they can
somehow support the implementation work?

   Till