Re: [Printing-architecture] Google Summer of Code 2011 - Nice project, who wants to mentor it?

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

Sorry for the late replay, I have done the annual OpenPrinting Summit. 
We have a principla mentor, but it would be great if you could help, for 
example adding ideas and so on.

    Till

On 04/02/2011 08:21 PM, Vítor Baptista wrote:
> Hi Till,
>
> I am not be the most experienced person here, but if there aren't other
> possible mentors, I would like to mentor (or co-mentor) her. Her idea
> reminded me one that I had a few years ago, when I was doing my bachelor
> with some friends. We've even started it, but never managed to finish.
> The problem that she is trying to solve is common in a lot of
> universities, and I definitely see it being used in a lot of places,
> including here in Brazil.
>
> As I know the problem she's facing, I might be able to help her build
> something not usable just by Arizona State University, but more general,
> usable by other universities also (including mine) :-)
>
> Best regards,
>
> On Thu, Mar 31, 2011 at 5:14 PM, Till Kamppeter
> <till.kamppeter@gmail.com <mailto:till.kamppeter@gmail.com>> wrote:
>
>     Hi,
>
>     the following application with a project idea from a student has
>     arrived. I would much like that this project will get turned reality. It
>     is not one of our work which needs to be done urgently, but it is also
>     something useful. And the student needs it for his department, so
>     another motivation which counts in.
>
>     So I want to ask all of you, who would like to step up as a mentor for
>     this project?
>
>         Till
>
>     P.S.: Please register as mentor for the Linux Foundation on
>     http://www.google-melange.com/ if you want to participate in the
>     selection process or if you want to actually mentor.
>
>     ----------
>
>     Ticketed Print Monitoring System
>     --------------------------------
>
>     Samantha Christoff
>
>     Email: firebirdy4 at gmail dot com
>
>     Mentor: No mentor assigned
>
>     Possible mentors: ???
>
>     Short description: Implement a monitored print server in CUPS to allow
>     graduate students and faculty to print to a network of laser printers
>     with a ticketed system hooked up to a monitor server with a front end
>     GUI available on all platforms. This is in order to set printing limits
>     and to meet budget constraints on toner and paper.
>     Google Summer of Code Application
>
>     Name: Samantha Christoff
>
>     University: Arizona State University, dual majoring in Physics and
>     Philosophy, currently a Sophomore
>
>     Short Biography:I am a twenty year old pink haired motivated programmer,
>     physicist, philosopher, pop star, with a lot of problems to solve and a
>     lot of math to do it with. I freelance in most of my work and have
>     experience with platforms up and down the board, recently, C++, Grails,
>     and jQuery. I’m a list oriented person who is a bit messy when it comes
>     to keeping office space. You can say I’m a Highly motivated, workaholic
>     with a passion for coffeecake, open source, differential equations and
>     shoes.
>
>
>
>     IRC Nickname: FinalPhoenix
>
>
>
>     Platforms:
>
>                  1. MacBook Pro 2011 Core i7 8gbs RAM 500gb HDD running
>     MacOSX/Windows  7
>
>     2. iMac 24” Summer 2009 8gb RAM  320GB HDD running Ubuntu 10.10/Arch
>
>
>
>     Pertinent Languages: C, C++, PHP, CSS, HTML5, jQuery
>
>
>
>     Relevant Experience: I code in C and C++ for various academic programs
>     for Physicists and Psychologists, modeling electron microscopy and
>     emergent systems. I use CSS, PHP, HTML5, and jQuery every day for
>     various web design and development work.
>
>
>
>     Involvement in the Open Source Community: This will be my first major
>     Open Source Project, I have been a freeloader in the past and would like
>     to correct that.
>
>
>
>     Development Idea and Implementation: The idea came from my actual day
>     job. I manage servers and labs at Arizona State University at Coor Hall
>     in the Geography and Urban Planning Department. Due to state budget cuts
>     we have been forced to rely more and more on open source software,
>     however those budget cuts have also affected how much paper and ink we
>     can buy. These budget cuts are felt by most of the faculty, however, the
>     grad students are largely unaware. Our graduate students are good people
>     from all over the world, but they love printing. They love printing so
>     much that they’re bleeding us dry. Often the graduate students will
>     print entire textbooks on laser printers, ten or so copies of 200 page
>     theses, etc. This has become a very big problem and I am supposed to
>     solve it. If I can create a ticketed, monitored print system with user
>     accounts. I can stop these ink-hungry graduate students and perhaps save
>     the day, and the department from further measures like taking on less
>     graduate students, or even worse, cutting the IT budget.
>
>
>
>     Expected Achievement:  Create a ticketed, monitored linux print server
>     with a web user interface for both administrators and users on all
>     platforms.
>
>
>
>     Why I am suited for this project: I have been involved in the Linux
>     community for five years, and a member of the Linux Users Group at ASU
>     for two. I would like to finally make Linux print servers viable for
>     large organizations and make Linux a friendly way to go in the office. I
>     am well versed in coding in the specific languages needed and C/C++ were
>     part of the first languages I learned six years ago. I have to solve
>     this problem, and I would like the support of the Open Source Community
>     to not only save my department from further measures, but to help other
>     people in similar situations.
>
>
>
>     Invested Time: I will be contributing 40 hours a week or more to this
>     problem as it is urgent to the success of my department. Not only is my
>     day job allowing me to do this, but I will be most likely doing the real
>     extensive testing at home in my own environment.
>
>
>
>     Rough Schedule of Project Subtasks:
>
>
>
>     First two weeks – Planning and Research into the CUPS platform and
>     similar closed source ticketing systems
>
>     Seven Weeks – Developing and Implementing a ticket based system to be
>     interpreted by job (i.e. File Name, Size, Number of Pages, When it was
>     printed, from what IP) and sent to a monitoring server where each job is
>     recorded. These jobs will be sent to a database.
>
>     Six Weeks – Developing a user database to match up to ticketing system
>     in order to set print limits on users, know which user printed what and
>     how many, etc.
>
>     Three Weeks – Developing and Designing a front and back end GUI
>     accessible through the web available on all platforms (Mac/PC/Linux)  in
>     order to install print drivers, see jobs, progress towards page limit,
>     and a back end for administration use, such as a print out of the
>     requested jobs for each printer, who is at their print limit, how many
>     pages are going through each printer, etc.
>
>     Two weeks – Debugging, Testing, Implementing.
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> --
> Vítor Baptista
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