Till Kamppeter
Co-Founder And Organization Lead
Vienna, Austria
Summary
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Top SchoolTill Kamppeter is a veteran open-source leader and engineer with 19 years of experience specializing in Linux printing infrastructure, co-founding and steering OpenPrinting since 2001 while driving CUPS adoption across major distributions. A Linux Foundation fellow and long-time Google Summer of Code organizer and mentor, he combines hands-on kernel-level and scheduler fixes (notably to the widely used OpenPrinting/cups project) with sustained community building and conference organization. He spent nearly two decades as Ubuntu's printing maintainer at Canonical and previously ported Mandrake Linux to CUPS, a migration that helped make CUPS the de facto printing system on Linux. Based in Vienna, he is now focused on securing funding or a partner to continue running OpenPrinting full-time to ensure printing “just works” across FOSS ecosystems. An uncommon strength is his blend of deep technical debugging skills and persistent outreach—running workshops, booths, and annual conferences to grow both users and contributors.
19 years of coding experience
Diploma (eq. Bachelor + Master), Physics, Diploma (eq. Bachelor + Master), Physics at Bergische Universität WuppertalPhD, Theoretical Physics, PhD, Theoretical Physics at University of Bayreuth
German, Portuguese, English
Github Skills (5)
c1710
linux10
c1110
system-administration8
bsd7
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
OpenPrinting/cups
Feb 2020 - Jan 2023
OpenPrinting CUPS Sources
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:42 reviews, 35 commits, 12 PRs in 2 years 11 months
Contributions summary:Till primarily contributed to the CUPS (Common Unix Printing System) project by fixing bugs and improving the scheduler's functionality. They addressed issues related to device URI resolution for local services, corrected PPD input slot choice name conversions, and fixed issues with the scheduler's configuration loading. Their work also included implementing a check for administrative tasks from Snaps and optimizing snapctl arguments.
printing3d-printerlinuxprinterbsd
OpenPrinting/hplip-printer-app
Sep 2021 - Nov 2022
HPLIP Printer Application
Contributions:60 commits, 9 PRs, 58 pushes in 1 year 3 months
zebra3d-printerzplprinter
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