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

Gavin Beatty gavinbeatty at gmail.com
Thu Aug 16 18:36:42 CEST 2007 

URGENT

There is a preparation phone meeting TODAY for the OpenPrinting Summit.

As I am NOT attending and the phone meeting starts in just over ONE
HOUR my time, I feel a second mail is warranted.

This is my last mail on the subject.

---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Till Kamppeter <till.kamppeter at gmail.com>
Date: 15-Aug-2007 20:42
Subject: [Printing-summit] OpenPrinting Summit 2007 Montreal:
Reminder: Preparation phone meeting August 2
To: Printing-summit at lists.freestandards.org


Hi,

there will be a preparation conference call for the
OpenPrinting Summit on Thursday, August 16, at 10am Pacific, 1pm
Eastern, and 7 pm Central European time.

Agenda will be

- Hotel: Did you already book your hotel? Which one? Any suggestions for
   perhaps getting a negotiated rate somewhere?
- Other logistics stuff
- Agenda of the Summit: Your suggestions.

Dial-in number: +1-641-715-3840
Access code: 260016#

Press *6 to mute/unmute your line.

If not otherwise stated the same dial-in number and access code will be
used for all preparation conference calls and also for dialling into the
plenary room of the OpenPrinting Summit itself.

See also

https://www.linux-foundation.org/en/OpenPrinting/SummitMontreal

    Till


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On 16/08/07, Gavin Beatty <gavinbeatty at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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
> -----
>
> [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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