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

[Till Kamppeter <till.kamppeter@gmail.com>]

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