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OpenPrinting is an essential piece of the free software system infrastructure and it needs to be kept in its good shape in which it is currently, many people appreciating my work and sometimes even telling that for them printing works better than under Windows or macOS.

Any help is appreciated, including just boosting this thread.

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and more than 30 Canonicalers have connected with me on LinkedIn.

Now I want to continue doing OpenPrinting for a living, and need a way to do so. I am currently working with the Linux Foundation to make OpenPrinting an organiation which can receive sponsor funding. So now I am looking for sponsors.

Even greater would be, if independent of this somebody could hire me to continue OpenPrinting ...

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With the time, Canonical has grown and created internal structures as a big-tech, especially how employees are evaluated. With my mostly external work I got a victim of it and they laid me off. All my colleagues do not really understand why I got fired, as they consider my work really important. Got ~30 "I am really sad that you have to go, you do not deserve it, you are doing great work" answers to my good-bye e-mail

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LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/kamppetertill/

openprinting.github.io/news/

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Interview of me and Michael Sweet (author of CUPS) in #DestinationLinux :

youtu.be/CLEMiM0L2Jk

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Interview with Till Kamppeter & Michael Sweet of OpenPrinting, Making Linux Printing Just Work

On this episode of Destination Linux (351), we have an awesome interview lined up for you. We are being joined by 2 members of the OpenPrinting project to ta...

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thanks to your hard work, my printers always worked better than they ever did on windows even as far back as from the Mandrake Linux days.

Full disclosure: I even stole ( shamelessly ) from your src.rpm to create the hplip rpm for Conectiva Linux 10 ( back in 2004 ) 😉

Edit: I did credited you on the comments on my .spec file though 😉

Thank you for your work. As someone that has built their own career, I know it's hard. But I hope you end up setting up your own business instead of being a worker beholden to suites that don't know what they have.

It's easier if you identify who your primary users are. For me, it's artists, but I suspect for you it's distro makers, and they should *all* be contributing back funding into your open print business. Even the free ones.

At Europe OpenSourceSummit 2024 in Wien Till Kamppeter had a talk. It's a complete overview of the project with the history since 2001 until now, the archivements, problems, ongoing and future work, and the community around the printing. He does very important work for printing in Open Source (and other) environments.

osseu2024.sched.com/event/1ej7…

OpenPrinting - We Make Printing Just Work! - Till Kamppeter, OpenPrinting / Canonical

Conference attendees to Till: Printing works better than under Windows or Mac! Michael Tunnell, TuxDigital, says in one of his videos: There is no such thing like a pain-free experience of printing under Windows ...

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