[Kde-print-devel] Fwd: OpenPrinting Summit 2007 in Montreal (Canada), September 24-27, 2007

[Gavin Beatty]

I'm forwarding this mail to both lists. If you're interested, please
join the printing-summit mailing list in link [2] as that is where all
communications will be made. i.e., join the list to participate, not
e-mail Till.

---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Till Kamppeter <till.kamppeter at gmail.com>
Date: 08-Aug-2007 23:18
Subject: OpenPrinting Summit 2007 in Montreal (Canada), September 24-27, 2007

I am organizing the OpenPrinting Summit in September 24-27, 2007 [1] as
part of the OpenPrinting initiative of the Linux Foundation [3] and I am
inviting you to participate. The summit will take place at Ecole
Polytechnique in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. Because this summit will
coincide with the PWG face to face meeting [5], we will also be
including a joint plenary on the morning of September 27.

As with the previous Printing Summits [4] this will be a meeting of free
software developers for printing infrastructure, drivers, renderers
(GhostScript, XPDF, ...), document-producing applications, desktop
environments, Open Source Operating Systems (Linux, *BSD, OpenSolaris,
...), Linux distributions, printer manufacturers, the OpenPrinting
workgroup ... and it will be continued to discuss about how to make
printing with free software easier and better, so that it "just works".

The agenda for this summit will be continuously updated on our website
[1], however, we currently plan on covering these topics:

Printer Testing/Validation

     * Self-validation by driver developer (manufacturer/third party),
       no testing by distros or central organizations
     * How is systematic printer testing done by the distros currently?
     * Which criteria should be checked?
     * How should results be presented on the OpenPrinting web site

OpenPrinting Implementation

   Especially PAPI and JTAPI, but also PCM, SM, ...

     * What is already done (OpenPrinting Vector, PAPI by Sun, ...)?
     * What has to be done by whom (developers of CUPS, GhostScript/XPDF,
       KDE/Qt/GTK, ..., foomatic-rip)?
     * Implementation of status and error reporting with PCM and SM
     * Sponsorships to raise manpower

Printing in LSB

     * State of printing requirements in the LSB 3.2
     * What will go into LSB 4.0?

Renderers/Drivers

     * XPDF/libpoppler renderer with IJS, CUPS Raster, and OpenPrinting
       Vector interfaces
     * Separating out the built-in GhostScript drivers with OpenPrinting
       Vector interface
     * Applications producing PDF instead of PostScript
     * Standard IEEE-1284 strings and standard MIBs for easy printer
       model identification for automatic printer setup
     * Apps must produce PostScript or PDF from which all text can be
       extracted as ASCII/UTF-8 characters, to make the text searchable
       and Braille-printable.

Printing from embedded systems

     * Details will come later

Printing Dialog

     * Common printing dialog via Portland
     * Development state of printing (and printer setup) dialogs by
       usability people (OpenUsability, Relevantive, ...)
     * GTK, Qt, KDE development
     * Dialog extensibility by printer model and by application
     * Common tools/GUIs for printer setup/admin?

Raising Manpower

     * Sponsorships for implementing API libraries, driver
       modularization, printing dialogs, ...
     * Employment of printing developers by printer manufacturers,
       distros, ...
     * Supplying test hardware to developers


As developer of the first client for the distribution-independent driver
packages on OpenPrinting I invite you to participate in the
Printing Summit.

If funding for your travel/accommodation is needed, the Linux Foundation
can sponsor a very small number of developers and can try to find
another sponsor for you. Please tell us whether you need a sponsorship
and apply at the "The Linux Foundation Community Travel Fund" on [6].

If you are not already on the list because of a previous event, I will
subscribe you to the event mailing list [2]. We use this list to discuss
agenda, topics, and logistics of the event. You will get a separate
e-mail with the password for configuring your subscription and accessing
the list archives with the discussion done so far.

Feel free to post your suggestions on the mailing list and to edit the Wiki.

Online registration is now available [7], register as soon as possible
to allow as a better planning for this event. Please tell also (by
e-mail) whether you need sponsorship, and/or an official invitation
letter for a visa. Also create an account on the MediaWiki of the Linux
Foundation (click link in upper-right corner of the event Wiki page [1])
and then add yourself to the participant list. The registration page [7]
is for both OpenPrinting Summit and PWG face-to-face. If you want to
attend both meetings, register only once.

I hope to see you at the OpenPrinting Summit in Montreal.

    Till



Links
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[1] OpenPrinting Summit home page/Wiki:
http://www.linux-foundation.org/en/OpenPrinting/SummitMontreal

[2] Mailing list:
http://lists.freestandards.org/mailman/listinfo/printing-summit

[3] OpenPrinting at the Linux Foundation:
http://www.openprinting.org/

[4] OpenPrinting meetings:
http://www.linux-foundation.org/en/OpenPrinting/MeetingInfo

[5] 2007 PWG F2F meetings:
http://www.pwg.org/chair/meet07.html

[6] The Linux Foundation Community Travel Fund
http://www.linux-foundation.org/en/Travelfund

[7] http://www.linux-foundation.org/printingsummit/




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