Re: [Printing-architecture] GSoC, & printing & not-so-printing projects.

Re: [Printing-architecture] GSoC, & printing & not-so-printing projects.

[Till Kamppeter]

Thank you very much for the good news, Hin-Tak, please add your project 
ideas to the appropriate workgroup's idea list, or post the 
copy-and-paste-ready text here on the list(s).

    Till

On 05.02.2014 13:02, Hin-Tak Leung wrote:
> Hi Till,
>
> GSoC application for organizations has just started. I assume you'll put in an application
> again as per usual?
>
> I have mentioned once or twice before that ddiwrapper (using wine + extra bits to run
> windows printer drivers) is due for an update from recent DIB developments; also there
> are newer windows (8!) as well as 64-bit windows become common
> since what was 32-bit XP/2000 era technology. One other interesting recent
> development is http://www.darlinghq.org/ - which probaby means using Mac OS X printer
> drivers might be a possibility - so I think you could update the project descriptions, etc a bit.
>
> Also, one very important thing - I don't read e-mails to my gmail account often
> (mostly for automating patch submissions, etc!), and contact should always be
> the sourceforge address, and *most important*, all GSoC or not-GSoC-related queries
> *must* CC one of the mailing lists. I cannot emphasize this often enough.
>
> Just co-incidentally, these last few weeks saw an alternative HFS+ (i.e. Mac OS X file system,
> important for dual booting linux+OSX) journalling implementation
> emerging - and it just landed in Andrew Morton's tree. - That was the failed GSoC
> project I took on two years ago. I have had some discussion on kernel fs-devel
> about adapting actual Apple code via fuse - linux's file-system-in-userand - for
> inter-operability. So that's another not-printing GSoC project one might advertise on.
>
> Hin-Tak
>
>

Re: [Printing-architecture] GSoC, & printing & not-so-printing projects.

[Till Kamppeter]

Hin-Tak, I have put up the ideas list for OpenPrinting now. please 
update the ddiwrapper project appropriately.

    Till

On 05.02.2014 13:02, Hin-Tak Leung wrote:
> Hi Till,
>
> GSoC application for organizations has just started. I assume you'll put in an application
> again as per usual?
>
> I have mentioned once or twice before that ddiwrapper (using wine + extra bits to run
> windows printer drivers) is due for an update from recent DIB developments; also there
> are newer windows (8!) as well as 64-bit windows become common
> since what was 32-bit XP/2000 era technology. One other interesting recent
> development is http://www.darlinghq.org/ - which probaby means using Mac OS X printer
> drivers might be a possibility - so I think you could update the project descriptions, etc a bit.
>
> Also, one very important thing - I don't read e-mails to my gmail account often
> (mostly for automating patch submissions, etc!), and contact should always be
> the sourceforge address, and *most important*, all GSoC or not-GSoC-related queries
> *must* CC one of the mailing lists. I cannot emphasize this often enough.
>
> Just co-incidentally, these last few weeks saw an alternative HFS+ (i.e. Mac OS X file system,
> important for dual booting linux+OSX) journalling implementation
> emerging - and it just landed in Andrew Morton's tree. - That was the failed GSoC
> project I took on two years ago. I have had some discussion on kernel fs-devel
> about adapting actual Apple code via fuse - linux's file-system-in-userand - for
> inter-operability. So that's another not-printing GSoC project one might advertise on.
>
> Hin-Tak
>
>