Fw: Re: Google Summer of Code 2008 - joined openprinting+wine project?

Hin-Tak Leung htl10 at users.sourceforge.net
Wed Mar 26 11:51:31 CDT 2008


Hi, anybody on wine-devel want to take this on and make this more concrete?

--- On Wed, 26/3/08, Till Kamppeter <till.kamppeter at gmail.com> wrote:

> From: Till Kamppeter <till.kamppeter at gmail.com>
> Subject: Re: Google Summer of Code 2008 - Some general instructions for reviewing the student's applications
> To: "Hin-Tak Leung" <hintak_leung at yahoo.co.uk>
> Cc: "Casey Schaufler" <casey at schaufler-ca.com>, "'Glen Petrie'" <glen.petrie at eitc.epson.com>, "Rik van Riel" <riel at redhat.com>, "Jeff Licquia" <licquia at debian.org>, "Jon Masters" <jonmasters at gmail.com>, "Jonathan Riddell" <jriddell at ubuntu.com>, "Josef Spillner" <spillner at kde.org>, Matt_Domsch at dell.com, "Pekka Enberg" <penberg at cs.helsinki.fi>
> Date: Wednesday, 26 March, 2008, 4:34 PM
> Hin-Tak Leung wrote:
> > Hi Till and the rest of the gang.
> > 
> > Two people had got in touch with with about the
> IJS+PDF workflow, and I replied. 
> > (sorry I don't check the "other" e-mail
> often - I probably should set up re-direction).
> >
> 
> Great!
> 
> > I thought I should also mentioned that it has just
> came to my attention in some unrelated discussion on
> wine-devel - been doing some non-printing wine-related
> stuff lately - that there *was* a google summer of code
> 2007 project for a
> > wine-based native printer driver proxy - this is the
> sort of thing I have had in mind
> > for a while and I thought it would be interesting to
> do but I don't have in-depth
> > windows knowledge to make it happen, but the wine
> people already did!
> > http://google-summer-of-code-2007-wine.googlecode.com/
> > 
> > I just downloaded the gsoc 2007 printerproxy code. It
> seems that it is just for use
> > from within wine, but it just might be interesting to
> make it more general - via opvp
> > or IJS. We should follow up on this.
> 
> If this project still requires coding, it is not too late
> to add it as 
> project idea to the ideas pages of both the Linux
> Foundation and WINE 
> (having it presented at two mentoring organizations raises
> the chances 
> to find a student).
> 
> Our ideas page is a Wiki and you can simply edit it:
> 
> https://www.linux-foundation.org/en/Google_Summer_of_Code
> 
>     Till


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