The Tech’o’Space Podcast Ep 86 : Linux Leadership Without Borders: Global Open Source Impact Pt 1

Описание: In this podcast episode we are absolutely honored to interact and connect with Mr. Till Kamppeter who is the Co-Founder and Organization Lead, Co-Founder and Project Lead of OpenPrinting organization and Co-Founder and Organization Lead of OpportunityOpenSource initiative and he is based out of Vienna, Austria :

a) Gives a timeline of his journey in the IT space.
b) Sheds some spotlight into his other initiative "Opportunity Open Source" and its collaborations with different IITs, universities, colleges in India.
c) Provides an overview about his organization "OpenPrinting" and also shares an interesting back-story associated with it.
d) Mentions about his roles and responsibilities of being a co-founder and organization lead of OpenPrinting organization.

00:00:00 - Host Akhil Navuluri Welcomes Till Kamppeter and Discusses New Year Celebrations
00:03:56 - Till Kamppeter's Timeline: From Commodore to First FOSS Contribution
00:11:08 - Revolutionizing Linux Printing with CUPS and Mandrake Linux Integration
00:21:35 - Evangelizing CUPS Adoption and Founding the OpenPrinting Organization
00:29:21 - From Free Standards Group to Canonical: A Journey in Open Source
00:38:34 - Recovering from Layoff and Securing OpenPrinting's Future Funding
00:52:32 - Till's Diverse Roles: Leading, Marketing, and Mentoring for OpenPrinting
01:03:00 - Building Open Source Communities with IITs in India
01:10:31 - Host Akhil Navuluri Wraps Up Part 1, Teasing Future Conversation


Related Links for the show notes below
OpenPrinting

Web: https://www.openprinting.org
LinkedIn:   / posts  
Mastodon: https://ubuntu.social/tags/OpenPrinting
Telegram: https://t.me/+RizBbjXz4uU2ZWM1
GitHub: https://github.com/openprinting

More contacts: https://openprinting.github.io/contact/

About us: https://openprinting.github.io/about-us/


OpenPrinting News

News, events, releases:
https://openprinting.github.io/news/

What we have done:
https://openprinting.github.io/OpenPr...

Recovering from the layoff:
https://openprinting.github.io/OpenPr...


Google Summer of Code 2025

Project ideas posted:
https://openprinting.github.io/OpenPr...

Project work has started:
https://openprinting.github.io/OpenPr...

Work is going on:
https://openprinting.github.io/OpenPr...

Successfully concluded:
https://openprinting.github.io/OpenPr...

Older GSoC news on https://openprinting.github.io/news/


Opportunity Open Source conferences in India

LinkedIn:   / posts  

Opportunity Open Source 1.0 (2023) in the IIT Mandi
https://openprinting.github.io/OpenPr...

Opportunity Open Source 2.0 (2024) in the IIT Kanpur
https://openprinting.github.io/OpenPr...

Opportunity Open Source 3.0 (2025) in the IIT Kanpur
https://openprinting.github.io/OpenPr...


Till in videos and podcasts

Tech over Tea: Till Kamppeter about everything OpenPrinting, the layoff, and how
he is recovering
https://openprinting.github.io/OpenPr...

Destination Linux: Till Kamppeter and Michael Sweet about the history of
OpenPrinting
   • Interview with Till Kamppeter & Michael Sw...  

Ubuntu Indaba: Till Kamppeter and Michael Sweet about the New Architecture
   • Ubuntu Desktop Team Indaba - August 27, 2021  

Ubuntu Office Hours: Till Kamppeter and Aveek Basu about the Google Summer of Code
   • Summer of Printers | Community Office Hours  

Ubuntu Summit 2022: Till Kamppeter hosting an OpenPrinting panel with Zdenek
Dohnal, Johannes Meixner, Aveek Basu, and Deepak Patankar
   • Ubuntu Summit 2022 | OpenPrinting   Join t...  

Ask Noah: Till Kamppeter on how OpenPrinting improved printing with Linux/Unix
https://podcast.asknoahshow.com/368?t...

Linux Saloon: Till Kamppeter about how he got Snap enthusiast
   • Linux Saloon 93 | Application Appetizer Sn...  

OpenPrinting - We make printing just work! Till Kamppeter, FOSDEM 2024,
Brussels, Belgium
https://fosdem.org/2024/schedule/even...

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