[Printing-architecture] Application of OpenPrinting as Mentoring Organization for the Google Summer of Code 2007

Sat Mar 10 11:30:30 PST 2007

Hi Till,

See my additions below in the GSoC form, surrounded by
square brackets (e.g., "[ Ira - ... ]").

The license on JTAPI is MIT - don't know the answer for
PAPI - Norm?

My longstanding Google account is "blueroofmusic at gmail.com".

Hope this helps.

Cheers,
- Ira

Ira McDonald (Musician / Software Architect)
Chair - Linux Foundation Open Printing WG
Blue Roof Music / High North Inc
PO Box 221  Grand Marais, MI  49839
phone: +1-906-494-2434
email: imcdonald at sharplabs.com

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Subject: [Printing-architecture] Application of OpenPrinting as
Mentoring Organization for the Google Summer of Code 2007

Hi,

I wanted to make this an agenda item for the call yesterday, but for
technical reasons there was no call possible yesterday.

I would like the OpenPrinting project being a mentoring organization in
the Google Summer of Code 2007 (GSoC). This gives us some manpower to
get APIs implemented (PAPI, JTAPI, ...) and also other coding work done
(for example making foomatic-rip ready for the PDF workflow,
modularizing the built-in drivers of GhostScript, so that they can plug
into other renderers like XPDF/libpoppler).

The application deadline is Monday (March 12), see

http://code.google.com/support/bin/answer.py?answer=60302&topic=10727

Application instructions are here:
http://groups.google.com/group/google-summer-of-code-announce/web/gsoc-mentor-organization-application-how-to

As you cannot access the application form without a valid Google
account, See the questions asked in the form here:

http://code.google.com/support/bin/answer.py?answer=60303&topic=10727&ctx=sibling

One needs an administrator a backup for the administrator and mentors
for supervising the students.

I could do the administrator's job and also be mentor for
Foomatic-related projects and perhaps also for the modularization of the
GhostScript drivers.

Ira, could you be the administrator's backup?

Claudia, could you be mentor for JTAPI subprojects?

Norm, Wendy, could one of you be mentor for PAPI subprojects?

Anyone who I did not mention here, would you also like to enter as a
mentor for one or more subprojects?

Everyone who enters, independent whether as admin or as mentor, needs to
have a Google account. Please create one ASAP if you have non. If you
have a <NAME>@gmail.com e-mail address, you have a Google account with
user name <NAME>. Log into your account and then click the following
link to see the application form:

http://code.google.com/soc/org_signup.html

I do not know whether one needs an invitation to get a Google account.
If so, tell me and I will invite you.

Now to the questions of the application form, here are they and I have
partially filled in the answers. Please fill in the blanks and improve
my answers. Fill in also your Google account names in case you participate.

The page for project ideas is

http://www.linux-foundation.org/en/OpenPrinting/GoSC2007

and it is linked in the application form. Please fill in your project
ideas there. Page should not be empty when we submit our application.

General
-------

1. What is your Organization's Name?

OpenPrinting

2. What is your Organization's Homepage?

http://www.openprinting.org/

3. Describe your organization.

The goal of the OpenPrinting workgroup 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.

OpenPrinting also provides the most comprehensive printer compatibility
database, Foomatic, with its printer driver integration framework. This
system turned a de-facto standard which is used by all Linux
distributions and SUN Solaris.

[ Probably more needed ]
[ Ira - I think not - this should be concise]

4. Why is your organization applying to participate in GSoC 2007? What
do you hope to gain by participating?

[ Ira - We want to get complete implementations of Open Printing API
modules into the common Linux distributions, in order to add them to
the Linux Standard Base (LSB) in the 4.0 release ]

5. Did your organization participate in GSoC 2005 or 2006? If so, please
summarize your involvement and the sucesses and failures of your student
projects. (optional)

No, we did not participate.

6. If your organization has not previously participated in GSoC, have
you applied in the past? If so, for what year(s)? (optional)

No, this is our first application.

7. What license does your project use?

PAPI:  ...
JTAPI:  MIT
Foomatic:  GPL
Downloadable drivers and PPDs: Licenses of the upstream suppliers, for
most PPDs MIT.

8. URL for your ideas page

http://www.linux-foundation.org/en/OpenPrinting/GoSC2007

9. What is the main development mailing list for your organization?

printing-architecture Mailing List,
http://lists.freestandards.org/mailman/listinfo/printing-architecture

10. Where is the main IRC channel for your organization?

We are not using IRC currently.

11. Does your organization have an application template you would like
to see students use? If so, please provide it now. (optional)

12. Who will be your backup organization administrator? Please enter
their Google Account address. We will email them to confirm, your
organization will not become active until they respond. (optional)

Ira McDonald (blueroofmusic at gmail.com)

About Your Mentors
------------------

1. What criteria did you use to select these individuals as mentors?
Please be as specific as possible.

[ Ira - We selected working group chairs and/or principal editors for
the various Open Printing APIs. ]

2. Who will your mentors be? Please enter their Google Account address
separated by commas. If your organization is accepted we will email each
mentor to invite them to take part. (optional)

Till Kamppeter
Claudia Alimpich
Norm Jacobs
Wendy Philips

About The Program
-----------------

1. What is your plan for dealing with disappearing students?

[ Ira - We will transition their work-in-progress to a caretaker
(i.e., the appropriate mentor) ]

2. What is your plan for dealing with disappearing mentors?

[ Ira - We will transition their mentor role to another active
member of appropriate Open Printing working group ]

3. What steps will you take to encourage students to interact with your
project's community before, during and after the program?

[ Ira - We hold annual Printing Summit face-to-face conferences.
We will attend other Linux professional conferences and shows as
time and funding permits. ]

4. What will you do to ensure that your accepted students stick with the
project after GSoC concludes?

[ Ira - frankly it seems unlikely that they will - IMHO ]

Can you please give your answers and suggestions as soon as possible, as
the deadline is already on Monday. Google will decide on which
organizations participate on Wednesday March 14.

   Till

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