Re: OpenPrinting/Open Printer booth at FOSDEM 2026, Jan 31 - Feb 1

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

[ CCing the creators of the Open Printer: Laurent Berthuel, Léonard Hartmann,
   and Nicolas Schurando - Please use REPLY TO ALL for replying ]

Laurent, Léonard, Nicolas,

welcome to OpenPrinting!

On Nov 9 (this Sunday) is the deadline for applying for a booth on the FOSDEM in 
Brussels, the largest community-organized open source event in Europe (~ 8000 
attendees, walk-in, no registration).

I have checked what is required for the booth application via

https://fosdem.org/2026/news/2025-10-03-call-for-stands/

and that is actually only a title and an abstract.

So I want to ask you for what you want to have in the title and the abstract to 
represent your part of our collaborative booth of Open Printer and OpenPrinting.

Also tell us who of the three of you wants to be the second contact of the booth 
(the first contact is me as the submitter of the application).

    Till


Note that this mail is on the OpenPrinting mailing list. Conversation works best 
when subscribing as described on https://subspace.kernel.org/subscribing.html

OpenPrinting <printing-architecture@lists.linux.dev>


On 11/4/25 22:35, Till Kamppeter wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I have started to work together with the creators of the "Open Printer":
> 
> https://www.crowdsupply.com/open-tools/open-printer
> 
> I had a longer video meeting with them and talked about how their printer works 
> and about the software control for it. They planned to use the OpenPrinting 
> stack, especially CUPS as the firmware and I suggested them to use PAPPL.
> 
> We also talked about a possible joint booth of Open Printer and OpenPrinting on 
> the FOSDEM 2026, January 31 and February 1 in Brussels. The application deadline 
> is Nov 9:
> 
> https://fosdem.org/2026/news/2025-10-03-call-for-stands/
> 
> As a booth should be staffed during all the 2 days of the conference and we also 
> want to attend some sessions and participate in the hallway track, we need people.
> 
> Therefore I want to ask you all whether one or another of you would attend the 
> FOSDEM and volunteer on the booth.
> 
> We will have a table in one of the halls of FOSDEM and can show everything 
> related to OpenPrinting and also find people to join our community, or to apply 
> for a GSoC project with us. And we are showcasing OpenPrinting, most probably 
> PAPPL (with additional free software, like Ghostscript for example) as firmware 
> of a printer.
> 
> Please tell us as soon as possible if you want to participate. Thanks a lot in 
> advance.
> 
>     Till
>