From: McDonald, Ira (imcdonald@sharplabs.com)
Date: Mon Jan 12 2004 - 11:58:58 EST
Hi,
Please note Till's request to protect email addresses below,
if this proposal is posted on Web pages.
Also, the email address correction for Michael Goffiouls.
Thanks,
- Ira
Ira McDonald (Musician / Software Architect)
Blue Roof Music / High North Inc
PO Box 221 Grand Marais, MI 49839
phone: +1-906-494-2434
email: imcdonald@sharplabs.com
-----Original Message-----
From: Till Kamppeter [mailto:till.kamppeter@gmx.net]
Sent: Monday, January 12, 2004 8:35 AM
To: McDonald, Ira
Subject: Re: FW: [Printing-architecture] Proposal for Free Software
Printing C ollaboration Workshop on Libre Software Meeting 2004
Thank you for forwarding my proposal to the PWG list. Please post a
correction of Michael Goffiouls e-mail address. He wants to have the two
mentioned addresses removed and kdeprint@swing.be used instead.
Please post also that if someone wishes to put the proposal on web
pages, that he should remove the mail addresses or protect them ( e. g.
x@y.com --> x at y dot com ), to avoid spam.
Thanks.
Till
McDonald, Ira wrote:
> Hi folks,
>
> Below is a proposal for a Free Software Printing workshop
> at the Libre Software Meeting 2004 in Bordeaux in France
> on 6-10 July 2004.
>
> Please take a few minutes to read Till Kamppeter's excellent
> proposal and content outline.
>
> Please consider participating (sending one or more people
> from your company, contributing financial support, etc.).
>
> Please send replies of interest directly to Till at
> 'till.kamppeter@gmx.net'.
>
> Thanks for your time.
>
> Cheers,
> - Ira
>
> Ira McDonald (Musician / Software Architect)
> Blue Roof Music / High North Inc
> PO Box 221 Grand Marais, MI 49839
> phone: +1-906-494-2434
> email: imcdonald@sharplabs.com
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Till Kamppeter [mailto:till.kamppeter@gmx.net]
> Sent: Friday, January 09, 2004 11:17 PM
> To: printing-architecture
> Subject: [Printing-architecture] Proposal for Free Software Printing
> Collaboration Workshop on Libre Software Meeting 2004
>
>
> I was invited to organize a sub-event about printing with free software
> on the Libre Software Meeting 2004 in Bordeaux in France (2002:
> http://lsm.abul.org/, 2003+: http://www.libresoftwaremeeting.org/). This
> year's edition will take place at July 6-10, 2004.
>
> The printing workshop will be a meeting of free software printing
> developers for hacking, integrating their projects with each other,
> discussion, planning for the future, ... All five days there will be a
> meeting room for all participants with LAN and on one day there will be
> a track in the public session (conference) in a lecture hall to present
> the projects and also results of the work during the meeting. See below
> for details.
>
> This is also an opportunity for the members of the FSG OpenPrinting or
> also members of the PWG to meet developers of current free software
> printing projects as CUPS, LPRng, Foomatic, GIMP-Print, HPIJS, HPOJ,
> KDE-Print, ... and to integrate the new standards as JTAPI, PAPI in
> these projects.
>
> Once, I want to ask everyone who wants to participate to tell it to me
> and also to make suggestions of possible work to do during the workshop
> and/or a possible presentation to give on our conference track.
>
> Second, I want to ask you about whether you could talk with your
> employers about sponsorship for the travel of the participants. The
> travel is the highest cost factor as most participants come from the US.
> Accomodation will be cheap, as we will make use of student's dormitories
> and the universities cafeteria: 10 EUR per night, 3 EUR breakfast, 7 EUR
> lunch.
>
> The sponsor's logos will appear on the web site of the event and in
> printed materials, signs on the exposition, ...
>
> Below is a proposal about what could be done, which projects and people
> could participate (most important people marked by an asterisk ('*').
> Please make suggestions about people/projects/tasks which I have
> forgotten/you wish to see on the event. The proposal is subject to
> change, depending on actual participants, sponsors, your and the
> participant's suggestions, tasks finished before the event, new ideas, ...
>
> The concept is similar to a workshop proposed in 2002 (which did not
> take place because the funding was withdrawn):
>
>
http://base.freestandards.org/pipermail/printing-discuss/2002-July/000176.ht
> ml
>
> Suggestions for the name of the sub event are welcome ("Free Software
> Printing Summit"? "Free Software Printing Collaboration Workshop"? ...).
>
> Till
>
>
>
============================================================================
> =
>
>
> Free Software Printing Collaboration Workshop
>
>
>
> Basic Idea of the workshop
> ==========================
>
> With this meeting we want to get the key developers of the
> printing-related projects together so that they ...
>
> * ... can coordinate and discuss the work on their projects,
> * ... get important things done for which one always didn't find the
> time,
> * ... integrate the projects with each other and share, re-use and
> design common code,
> * ... can meet personally (and not only via internet)
> * and so on.
>
> We propose this workshop as a hacker's meeting: The participants are
> together with PCs and laptops (connected in a LAN and to the internet)
> and work on their projects.
>
> The meeting should be held during the whole Libre Software Meeting 2004
> in a "Hacker's Room". Near the end of the Libre Software Meeting there
> will be a printing track in the conference where the printing-related
> projects and their results of the hacking session are presented to the
> visitors. In the "Hacker's Room" their will be no scheduled talks.
> Perhaps everyone could introduce himself and his project shortly on the
> first half day, then people can hack, discuss, or whatever helps for the
> project.
>
>
>
> Possible development steps which could be taken on the Workshop
> ===============================================================
>
> These steps are subject to change, as some steps can already be done and
> new ideas could appear until July when the workshop actually takes place.
>
> These are my ideas for now, as soon as this proposal is distributed to
> the participants, their ideas will be collected and added. I will send
> updated proposals as soon as they are available.
>
>
> Foomatic (3.1.x, 3.2)
> ---------------------
>
> * Make adding printer drivers and adding data to the Foomatic database
> as easy as possible, to get more printer entries from contributors and
> especially printer drivers/database entries from manufacturers.
>
> * Move Bi-Di support from ifhp (LPRng) into Foomatic, let Bi-Di features
> of the printers being described in the Foomatic database (to have all
> printer property info on one central place serving for all spoolers).
>
> * Support new features of CUPS 1.2 (as Bi-Di) with Foomatic
>
> * Draft a Foomatic file structure layout to be integrated into the
> "Linux Standard Base"
>
> * Prepare Foomatic/linuxprinting.org to be mirrored to other servers,
> for higher availability/security
>
>
> GhostScript
> -----------
>
> * Continue the different flavors (AFPL, GNU, ESP) or do some merging?
>
> * Work on colour management features
>
>
> Drivers
> -------
>
> * Tune Gimp-Print to become a photo-quality driver for even more printer
> models (specifically Canon printers and more dye sublimation models are
> "next on the list")
>
> * GUI concepts for advanced options (like colour curves) in GIMP-Print
>
> * Develop some more generic printer drivers (or special Foomatic data):
>
> - Generic text printer (in case of PostScript input text is
> extracted)
>
> - Generic HPGL printer (to print on plotters)
>
> - Generic TIFF printer (some printers/plotters print TIFF files
> directly)
>
> - Generic DPOF printer (Digital Print Order Format, this is a special
> way to arrange a print job consisting of image files and a job
> ticket on a flash memory card. It is used by digital cameras to
> make it possible to select photos to be printed on the camera's
> screen and then put the memory card into an appropriate printer
> and print the photos by pressing one button. Alternatively, the
> card can be inserted into a terminal in a photo store to let the
> photos be developed by a photo lab. Such an arrangement of files on
> a flash card could also be done by a computer, based on a arbitrary
> print job sent to this "printer". This makes every printer with
> memory card slots working with free software. Or it makes it easier
> to get your computer-processed photos printed by a lab).
>
>
> FSG OpenPrinting
> ----------------
>
> * Implement the APIs of OpenPrinting in CUPS, LPRng, Foomatic, drivers,
...
>
>
> GUI
> ---
>
> * Support for printer Bi-Di features, complexer GIMP-Print options, and
> color management in current printing GUIs (KDE Print, foomatic-gui)
>
>
> Others
> ------
>
> * Make more printer manufacturers publish free PostScript PPDs and free
> drivers. Work out concepts for that.
>
> * Find more developers for the projects, especially for the GUIs
> (KDE-Print), for Foomatic, and for drivers (especially GIMP-Print
> drivers for Canon and Lexmark).
>
> * Colour management in GhostScript and/or CUPS, user interface(s) for
> colour management
>
> * Possibility to get PCL input filtered and printed on arbitrary
> printers for which free drivers exist
>
>
>
> Descriptions of most participating projects
> ===========================================
>
> Foomatic
> --------
>
> Foomatic's foundation is a database which contains informatation about
> printer hardware and printer software (spoolers and drivers), and how
> they interoperate: which driver supports which printer how well and
> which print options can be controlled with the selected printer/driver
> combo?
>
> The system integrates every free software printer driver with every
> free spooler. It makes all the driver's options available to the
> user. It's main part is an XML database which contains entries for all
> free software printer drivers and more than 800 printers. It provides
> all information about the driver's command lines with all its options.
> Users can easily configure printer queues under all free printer
> spoolers with an online-configurator on the linuxprinting.org web site
> (or, alternatively, from a locally installed copy of the database).
>
> Foomatic is now an inofficial standard: Mandrake, RedHat, SuSE,
> Conectiva, Debian, Knoppix, and other distributions are using it.
>
>
> GhostScript
> -----------
>
> In all Posix-style operating systems, as GNU/Linux, *BSD, Unix, ...
> applications generate PostScript as device-independent page description
> format to send the pages to be printed to the printer spooler.
>
> If the destination printer is not a PostScript printer, the software
> PostScript interpreter GhostScript is used to translate this PostScript
> output into the printer's native language using a printer driver. The
> current versions of GhostScript are fully compatible with the PostScript
> Level 3 standard and so they are able to convert or display every
> PostScript file. The drivers are either compiled into the GhostScript
> executable, a plug-in to the IJS interface of GhostScript, or a filter
> which converts generic raster graphics output of GhostScript into the
> printer's native language. A special type of filters are the CUPS raster
> drivers, a special driver concept developed for the CUPS printing system.
>
> GhostScript development is done in various tracks. The main development
> happens under the non-free but open-source AFPL license. After an AFPL
> GhostScript version reaching one year of age it is released under the
> GPL as GNU GhostScript. ESP GhostScript, whose development is lead by
> the CUPS project, is derived from GNU GhostScript, but with several bugs
> fixed and coming out of the box with all compile-in drivers.
>
>
> GIMP-Print
> ----------
>
> Gimp-Prints main goal is uncompromising quality. For a part of the
> supported printer models, this has been achieved to such a degree,
> that many users regard Gimp-Prints output as superior to the native
> vendor driver's output in a Windows environment. Gimp-Print, contrary
> to its legacy name, has long outgrown its origins as a plug-in to the
> well-known image manipulation program. It has become a general-purpose
> color image dithering software, which can be compiled to become
> either a GhostScript printer driver, an IJS plug-in for GhostScript a
> CUPS printer driver, a Gimp plug-in for printing, or a multi-purpose
> library to be used by other programs.
>
> It currently supports around 500 printer models, mainly color inkjets,
> but also lasers and dye sublimation printers.
>
>
> HPIJS
> -----
>
> This is the first free software printer driver project driven by a
> printer manufacturer. HPIJS provides free software support for nearly
> all of HP's inkjet printers and all PCL-5e/5c laser printers. It is
> regularly updated when new printer models appear. The project works
> closely together with Foomatic and Foomatic PPDs are shipped with the
> HPIJS package.
>
>
> IBM's Omni
> ----------
>
> Having a big knowledge and code base from the printer drivers of their
> OS/2 operating system, IBM has developed a highly modular,
> XML-database-driven printer driver package to make these resources
> available for free operating systems. The system supports more than
> 400 printers and it is planned that it can be dynamically expanded to
> any printer for which there is an UPDF description file.
>
>
> HPOJ
> ----
>
> HPOJ is an HP-supported project to make HP's multi-function devices
> working to their full extent under free software. Besides printing
> they can already scan and make photo memory cards available to the
> PC. In future releases it is planned to also support PC-controlled
> faxing.
>
>
> KDE Print
> ---------
>
> Started as graphical administration and printing frontends for the
> CUPS printer spooler KDEPrint is the most sophisticated free graphical
> printing environment: It supports the spoolers CUPS, LPD, and LPRng,
> sets up printers with the help of Foomatic, and even does things as
> driver export for Windows clients, pre-filtering of jobs with
> arbitrary commands, accounting, and more.
>
>
> FSG OpenPrinting
> ----------------
>
> The goal of the OpenPrinting WG is to develop and promote a set of
> standards that will address the needs of desktop to enterprise-ready
> printing, including management, reliability, security, scalability,
> printer feature access and network accessibility (Mission statement from
> OpenPrinting web page).
>
>
>
> Project URLs
> ============
>
> Foomatic: http://www.linuxprinting.org/
> ESP GhstScr: http://www.cups.org/ghostscript.php
> GhostScript: http://www.ghostscript.com/
> libicc: http://web.access.net.au/argyll/color.html
> argyll: http://web.access.net.au/argyll/argyllcms.html
> LittleCMS: http://www.littlecms.com/
> HPIJS: http://hpinkjet.sourceforge.net/
> GIMP-Print: http://gimp-print.sourceforge.net/
> IBM's Omni:
> http://www-124.ibm.com/developerworks/oss/linux/projects/omni/
> foo2zjs: http://home.mn.rr.com/richardsons/foo2zjs/
> ppmtomd: http://www.dcs.ed.ac.uk/home/jcb/ppmtomd/
> HPOJ: http://hpoj.sourceforge.net/
> KDE-Print: http://printing.kde.org/
> CUPS: http://www.cups.org/
> LPRng: http://www.lprng.com/
> FSG OpenPrinting: http://www.openprinting.org/
>
>
>
> Free software developers who could participate
> ==============================================
>
> The most important people of the free software printing area are marked
> by an asterisk ('*').
>
>
> Spoolers
> --------
>
> *Michael Sweet CUPS (leader), ESP GhostScript U. S.
> mike@easysw.com
>
> *Patrick Powell LPRng (leader), U. S.
> papowell@astart.com
>
>
> Printer/driver/spooler integration
> ----------------------------------
>
> *Till Kamppeter Foomatic (leader), Mandrake France
> till.kamppeter@gmx.net
>
> *Grant Taylor Foomatic (founder) U. S.
> gtaylor@picante.com
>
> *Patrick Powell Foomatic (developer), U. S.
> papowell@astart.com
>
> Johannes Meixner Foomatic (developer), SuSE Germany
> jsmeix@suse.de
>
>
> GhostScript
> -----------
>
> *Michael Sweet ESP GhostScript (leader) U. S.
> mike@easysw.com
>
> *Till Kamppeter ESP GhostScript (developer) France
> till.kamppeter@gmx.net
>
> *Ralph Giles GhostScript (coordinator free version) U. S.
> giles@ghostscript.com
>
> *Raph Levien GhostScript (developer, leader?) U. S.
> raph@acm.org, raph@levien.com
>
>
> Distributions
> -------------
>
> Till Kamppeter Mandrake France
> till.kamppeter@gmx.net
>
> Johannes Meixner SuSE Germany
> jsmeix@suse.de
>
> Tim Waugh Red Hat U. K.
> twaugh@redhat.com
>
> Bernhard Rosenkränzer Ark Linux Germany
> bero@bero.org
>
> Klaus Knopper Knoppix Germany
> knopper@linuxtag.org
>
>
> Color Management
> ----------------
>
> Graeme Gill libicc, argyll (Color Managmnt.) Australia
> graeme@colorbus.com.au
>
> Martí Maria Little Color Management System ???
> marti@littlecms.com
>
>
> Drivers
> -------
>
> *David Suffield HPIJS (leader), HPOJ, HP U. S.
> david.suffield@hp.com
>
> Cory Meisch HPIJS, HPOJ, HP U. S.
> cory.meisch@hp.com
>
> Shiyun Yie HPIJS, HPOJ, PostScript PPD, HP U. S.
> shiyun.yie@hp.com
>
> *Robert Krawitz GIMP-Print (leader, Epson dr.) U. S.
> rlk@alum.mit.edu
>
> Roger Leigh GIMP-Print (developer) U. K.
> roger@whinlatter.uklinux.net
>
> Andy Stewart GIMP-Print (documentation) U. S.
> andystewart@comcast.net
>
> Peter Missel GIMP-Print (Canon driver) Germany
> peter.missel@onlinehome.de
>
> Karsten Festag GIMP-Print (Canon driver) Germany
> karsten.festag@gmx.de
>
> Mark Hamzy Omni (leader), IBM U. S.
> hamzy@us.ibm.com
>
> Rick Richardson foo2zjs ???
> rickr@mn.rr.com
>
> Julian Bradfield ppmtomd U. K.
> jcb+alps@inf.ed.ac.uk
>
>
> Printing GUI
> ------------
>
> *Michael Goffioul KDE Print (development) Belgium
> goffioul@imec.be, sw286000@swing.be
>
> *Chris Lawrence foomatic-gui U. S.
> cnlawren@olemiss.edu, lawrencc@debian.org
>
>
> Documentation
> -------------
>
> Kurt Pfeifle KDE Print, Samba Printing Germany
> kpfeifle@danka.de, k1pfeifle@gmx.net
>
>
> FSG OpenPrinting
> ----------------
>
> *Mark Hamzy IBM U. S.
> hamzy@us.ibm.com
>
> *Claudia Alimpich IBM U. S.
> alimpich@us.ibm.com
>
> Ira McDonald High North Inc U. S.
> imcdonald@sharplabs.com
>
> Glen Petrie Epson U. S.
> glen.petrie@eitc.epson.com
>
> Till Kamppeter Mandrake, linuxprinting.org France
> till.kamppeter@gmx.net
>
> Tom Hastings Xerox U. S.
> hastings@cp10.es.xerox.com
>
> Norm Jacobs Sun U. S.
> Norm.Jacobs@Sun.COM
>
>
>
>
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