[Printing-architecture] Google Summer of Code 2011 - Nice project, who wants to mentor it?
Vítor Baptista
vitor at vitorbaptista.com
Tue Apr 19 01:01:11 PDT 2011
Sure, Till. I would be glad to help. So, this means that she was accepted?
Who is the mentor?
On Tue, Apr 19, 2011 at 4:17 AM, Till Kamppeter <till.kamppeter at gmail.com>wrote:
> Sorry for the late replay, I have done the annual OpenPrinting Summit. We
> have a principla mentor, but it would be great if you could help, for
> example adding ideas and so on.
>
> Till
>
>
> On 04/02/2011 08:21 PM, Vítor Baptista wrote:
>
>> Hi Till,
>>
>> I am not be the most experienced person here, but if there aren't other
>> possible mentors, I would like to mentor (or co-mentor) her. Her idea
>> reminded me one that I had a few years ago, when I was doing my bachelor
>> with some friends. We've even started it, but never managed to finish.
>> The problem that she is trying to solve is common in a lot of
>> universities, and I definitely see it being used in a lot of places,
>> including here in Brazil.
>>
>> As I know the problem she's facing, I might be able to help her build
>> something not usable just by Arizona State University, but more general,
>> usable by other universities also (including mine) :-)
>>
>> Best regards,
>>
>> On Thu, Mar 31, 2011 at 5:14 PM, Till Kamppeter
>> <till.kamppeter at gmail.com <mailto:till.kamppeter at gmail.com>> wrote:
>>
>> Hi,
>>
>> the following application with a project idea from a student has
>> arrived. I would much like that this project will get turned reality.
>> It
>> is not one of our work which needs to be done urgently, but it is also
>> something useful. And the student needs it for his department, so
>> another motivation which counts in.
>>
>> So I want to ask all of you, who would like to step up as a mentor for
>> this project?
>>
>> Till
>>
>> P.S.: Please register as mentor for the Linux Foundation on
>> http://www.google-melange.com/ if you want to participate in the
>> selection process or if you want to actually mentor.
>>
>> ----------
>>
>> Ticketed Print Monitoring System
>> --------------------------------
>>
>> Samantha Christoff
>>
>> Email: firebirdy4 at gmail dot com
>>
>> Mentor: No mentor assigned
>>
>> Possible mentors: ???
>>
>> Short description: Implement a monitored print server in CUPS to allow
>> graduate students and faculty to print to a network of laser printers
>> with a ticketed system hooked up to a monitor server with a front end
>> GUI available on all platforms. This is in order to set printing limits
>> and to meet budget constraints on toner and paper.
>> Google Summer of Code Application
>>
>> Name: Samantha Christoff
>>
>> University: Arizona State University, dual majoring in Physics and
>> Philosophy, currently a Sophomore
>>
>> Short Biography:I am a twenty year old pink haired motivated
>> programmer,
>> physicist, philosopher, pop star, with a lot of problems to solve and a
>> lot of math to do it with. I freelance in most of my work and have
>> experience with platforms up and down the board, recently, C++, Grails,
>> and jQuery. I’m a list oriented person who is a bit messy when it comes
>> to keeping office space. You can say I’m a Highly motivated, workaholic
>> with a passion for coffeecake, open source, differential equations and
>> shoes.
>>
>>
>>
>> IRC Nickname: FinalPhoenix
>>
>>
>>
>> Platforms:
>>
>> 1. MacBook Pro 2011 Core i7 8gbs RAM 500gb HDD running
>> MacOSX/Windows 7
>>
>> 2. iMac 24” Summer 2009 8gb RAM 320GB HDD running Ubuntu 10.10/Arch
>>
>>
>>
>> Pertinent Languages: C, C++, PHP, CSS, HTML5, jQuery
>>
>>
>>
>> Relevant Experience: I code in C and C++ for various academic programs
>> for Physicists and Psychologists, modeling electron microscopy and
>> emergent systems. I use CSS, PHP, HTML5, and jQuery every day for
>> various web design and development work.
>>
>>
>>
>> Involvement in the Open Source Community: This will be my first major
>> Open Source Project, I have been a freeloader in the past and would
>> like
>> to correct that.
>>
>>
>>
>> Development Idea and Implementation: The idea came from my actual day
>> job. I manage servers and labs at Arizona State University at Coor Hall
>> in the Geography and Urban Planning Department. Due to state budget
>> cuts
>> we have been forced to rely more and more on open source software,
>> however those budget cuts have also affected how much paper and ink we
>> can buy. These budget cuts are felt by most of the faculty, however,
>> the
>> grad students are largely unaware. Our graduate students are good
>> people
>> from all over the world, but they love printing. They love printing so
>> much that they’re bleeding us dry. Often the graduate students will
>> print entire textbooks on laser printers, ten or so copies of 200 page
>> theses, etc. This has become a very big problem and I am supposed to
>> solve it. If I can create a ticketed, monitored print system with user
>> accounts. I can stop these ink-hungry graduate students and perhaps
>> save
>> the day, and the department from further measures like taking on less
>> graduate students, or even worse, cutting the IT budget.
>>
>>
>>
>> Expected Achievement: Create a ticketed, monitored linux print server
>> with a web user interface for both administrators and users on all
>> platforms.
>>
>>
>>
>> Why I am suited for this project: I have been involved in the Linux
>> community for five years, and a member of the Linux Users Group at ASU
>> for two. I would like to finally make Linux print servers viable for
>> large organizations and make Linux a friendly way to go in the office.
>> I
>> am well versed in coding in the specific languages needed and C/C++
>> were
>> part of the first languages I learned six years ago. I have to solve
>> this problem, and I would like the support of the Open Source Community
>> to not only save my department from further measures, but to help other
>> people in similar situations.
>>
>>
>>
>> Invested Time: I will be contributing 40 hours a week or more to this
>> problem as it is urgent to the success of my department. Not only is my
>> day job allowing me to do this, but I will be most likely doing the
>> real
>> extensive testing at home in my own environment.
>>
>>
>>
>> Rough Schedule of Project Subtasks:
>>
>>
>>
>> First two weeks – Planning and Research into the CUPS platform and
>> similar closed source ticketing systems
>>
>> Seven Weeks – Developing and Implementing a ticket based system to be
>> interpreted by job (i.e. File Name, Size, Number of Pages, When it was
>> printed, from what IP) and sent to a monitoring server where each job
>> is
>> recorded. These jobs will be sent to a database.
>>
>> Six Weeks – Developing a user database to match up to ticketing system
>> in order to set print limits on users, know which user printed what and
>> how many, etc.
>>
>> Three Weeks – Developing and Designing a front and back end GUI
>> accessible through the web available on all platforms (Mac/PC/Linux)
>> in
>> order to install print drivers, see jobs, progress towards page limit,
>> and a back end for administration use, such as a print out of the
>> requested jobs for each printer, who is at their print limit, how many
>> pages are going through each printer, etc.
>>
>> Two weeks – Debugging, Testing, Implementing.
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>> --
>> Vítor Baptista
>>
>>
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