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For the Python programmers under you who wanted to make your app print, you probably have used pyCUPS to talk with the printing system. Perhaps you have also seen that it is not well maintained, not keeping pace with new APIs. Problem was its design, being a maintenance nightmare. But for libcups3 it gets much better, thanks to the most Pythonic GSoC contributor we ever had, and CFFI:

Soumya

GSOC: PyCups3 is intelligent?

Is that really so? PyCups3 is intelligent? Well, short answer is YES. It is intelligent. Damn, sweetheart, you made an AI for PyCups? Not everythin...

Thanks @npub1af70...0m3v #OpenPrinting #Python #Pythonic #CFFI #CUPS #GSoC #GSoC2025

Aryan Kaushik will host the panel "Growing Ubuntu and FOSS Community - and yourself, Locally and Globally" on Sat, Aug 30 at 3:30pm on the UbuCon Asia 2025 in Kathmandu, Nepal. Guests: - Ansh Arora (FOSS United) - Rashika K. (CNCF Kathmandu) - Till Kamppeter (OpenPrinting, Opportunity Open Source Conference) - Upendra Prasad Neupane (Amazon Web Services (AWS) Community Builder, Build Club) See you in Kathmandu!

Canonical / Ubuntu Events (Indico)

UbuCon Asia 2025

#OpenPrinting #UbuCon #UbuConAsia #UbuConAsia2025

Thanks a lot to everybody who has boosted my call-for-help post (linked below) for OpenPrinting! I got 1082 boosts within somewhat more than one week! I had posted because Canonical had laid me off and I want to continue OpenPrinting, and need appropriate sponsorship or employment. Any help is welcome and please continue boosting!

Ubuntu Social

Till Kamppeter (@till@ubuntu.social)

Urgent help for OpenPrinting needed! As many here know, I am co-founder and lead of OpenPrinting since 2001, known as the print guru for Linux and...

#OpenPrinting #LinuxFoundation #GetFediHired

Urgent help for OpenPrinting needed! As many here know, I am co-founder and lead of OpenPrinting since 2001, known as the print guru for Linux and free software by many. I also got one of the 8 fellows of the Linux Foundation for this. Up to now I was working at Canonical, hired back in 2006 just to run OpenPrinting and also to maintain printing-related Ubuntu packages. ... 🧵 Please boost. #OpenPrinting #LinuxFoundation

After two successful #OpportunityOpenSource conferences in the IIT Mandi and IIT Kanpur we are doing a third one! On September 5-7 we will be in the IIT Kanpur in India again! And this time we are co-locating the #UbuCon India with many Ubuntu-related workshops and talks! The Call for Proposals is open, until June 16. Our event takes place one week after the UbuCon Asia in Nepal, so you also can do the round trip to attend both.

OpenPrinting

OpenPrinting News - Opportunity Open Source 3.0

Opportunity Open Source 3.0, again in IIT Kanpur in India, on Sep 5-7, co-located with the first UbuCon India

I hope we see you all in India.

At OpenPrinting we are full steam in the preparations for the Google Summer of Code 2025! Many enthusiastic contributor candidates are already chatting with us, watching our videos, reading our introductions, studying our code, doing onboarding exercises ... And what about you? We have listed 15 exciting project ideas, or you bring your own. Introduction to read and to what, and the project ideas are here:

gsoc:google-summer-code-2025-openprinting-projects [Wiki]

#OpenPrinting #GSoC #CUPS #OSSfuzz #KDE #GNOME