Aug 28 – 30, 2026
Asia/Kolkata timezone

How to start your GSoC Journey

Aug 29, 2026, 10:00 AM
40m
Room 1

Room 1

Talk (40 min) Development/Coding

Speakers

Aveek Basu
Till Kamppeter
OpenPrinting

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Session author's bio

Aveek is a developer relations person with significant experience on print & scan drivers, an Open Source enthusiast, a people gardener, and a leader with strong business and technical experience having a track record of successful delivery, partnering and customer service.


Till is lead of OpenPrinting since it was founded in 2001, introduced the CUPS printing system in Mandrake Linux in 2000 working at MandrakeSoft and with this and a lot of evangelism (booths, talks, workshops) made the other distros also switch to CUPS, since 2006 printing maintainer at Canonical, co-organizing annual meetings with the Printer Working Group (PWG), since 2008 every year mentoring in Google Summer of Code, doing everything to make printing on Linux and alike operating systems "just work". With his OpenPrinting work Till has many years of experience with presenting on conferences and participating in their organization. Till is also fellow of the Linux Foundation.

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