In this continuation episode of our previous rendezvous with Mr. Till Kamppeter, the Co-Founder and Organization Lead, Co-Founder and Project Lead of OpenPrinting organization and Co-Founder and Organization Lead of OpportunityOpenSource initiative, who is based out of Vienna, Austria.

Till:

a) Gives an insight into his involvement with "The Linux Foundation".

b) His take on the importance of Linux in the European Union.

c) Shares few of his interesting success stories and anecdotes that he has experienced in his IT journey.

Related links for the show notes -

- OpenPrinting
Web: https://www.openprinting.org
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/openprinting/posts/
Mastodon: https://ubuntu.social/tags/OpenPrinting
Telegram: https://t.me/+RizBbjXz4uU2ZWM1
GitHub: https://github.com/openprinting
More contacts: https://openprinting.github.io/contact/
About us: https://openprinting.github.io/about-us/
- OpenPrinting News
News, events, releases:
https://openprinting.github.io/news/
What we have done:
https://openprinting.github.io/OpenPrinting-News-Google-Summer-of-Code-2025-The-amazing-work-is-going-on/
Recovering from the layoff:
https://openprinting.github.io/OpenPrinting-News-Sovereign-Tech-Agency-is-investing-in-OpenPrinting/
- Google Summer of Code 2025
Project ideas posted:
https://openprinting.github.io/OpenPrinting-News-Google-Summer-of-Code-2025-Project-Ideas-List-posted/
Project work has started:
https://openprinting.github.io/OpenPrinting-News-Google-Summer-of-Code-2025-Contributors-selected-and-projects-started/
Work is going on:
https://openprinting.github.io/OpenPrinting-News-Google-Summer-of-Code-2025-The-amazing-work-is-going-on/
Successfully concluded:
https://openprinting.github.io/OpenPrinting-News-Google-Summer-of-Code-2025-Our-most-successful-one/
Older GSoC news on https://openprinting.github.io/news/
- Opportunity Open Source conferences in India
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/opportunityopensource/posts/
Opportunity Open Source 1.0 (2023) in the IIT Mandi
https://openprinting.github.io/OpenPrinting-News-September-2023/#opportunitiy-open-source-in-the-iit-mandi-india
Opportunity Open Source 2.0 (2024) in the IIT Kanpur
https://openprinting.github.io/OpenPrinting-News-August-2024/#opportunity-open-source-in-iit-kanpur
Opportunity Open Source 3.0 (2025) in the IIT Kanpur
https://openprinting.github.io/OpenPrinting-News-Opportunity-Open-Source-3.0-in-the-IIT-Kanpur,-India/
- Till in videos and podcasts
Tech over Tea: Till Kamppeter about everything OpenPrinting, the layoff, and how
he is recovering
https://openprinting.github.io/OpenPrinting-News-Tech-over-Tea-300-Brodie-interviews-Till-Kamppeter/
Destination Linux: Till Kamppeter and Michael Sweet about the history of
OpenPrinting
https://youtu.be/CLEMiM0L2Jk
Ubuntu Indaba: Till Kamppeter and Michael Sweet about the New Architecture
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P22DOu_ahBo
Ubuntu Office Hours: Till Kamppeter and Aveek Basu about the Google Summer of Code
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=diB3wm4HB1Y
Ubuntu Summit 2022: Till Kamppeter hosting an OpenPrinting panel with Zdenek
Dohnal, Johannes Meixner, Aveek Basu, and Deepak Patankar
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RbgXmDjxYa4
Ask Noah: Till Kamppeter on how OpenPrinting improved printing with Linux/Unix
https://podcast.asknoahshow.com/368?t=2837
Linux Saloon: Till Kamppeter about how he got Snap enthusiast
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m5QKJH9tDjQ
OpenPrinting - We make printing just work! Till Kamppeter, FOSDEM 2024,
Brussels, Belgium
https://fosdem.org/2024/schedule/event/fosdem-2024-1930-openprinting-we-make-printing-just-work-/