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Subject:    [gphoto-devel] [Fwd: LinuxTag 2003: "Productive Power for the Office'" wants your
From:       Lutz =?ISO-8859-1?Q?M=FCller?= <lutz () users ! sourceforge ! net>
Date:       2002-10-30 21:58:02
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And the last of three e-mails regarding LinuxTag.

Lutz
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Hi all,

in July 2003 there will be "LinuxTag" again in Karlsruhe/Germany. It
is the biggest Linux Event in Europe.

Some of you might know: We had a "Linuxprinting" booth during the last
2 LinuxTag events. Next time we plan to reach a bit further -- with
your help, we hope!

Simple "Linuxprinting" has become a bit boring. We now *can* print
and blow all the bells and whistles of most available printers. We
can even provide an excellent print server service with the help of
Samba 2.2.6 to Windows networks in large enterprise environments, where
the clients can download and install the drivers in a semi-automatic
way. Old news.

But can we set up...

   ...a joint booth, run by several different projects in cooperation,
      which proofs that "Linux is ready for the Desktop"?

   ...a common project of several talents and developments, which
      provides a "digital imaging workflow"?

   ...a real showcase for office productivity based on input from
      various different sources, now all integrating nicely?

   ...a workflow doing document creation with one (or more) of the
      available office programs?

   ...a demonstration which includes scanning of paper documents,
      OCR-ing, storing and processing them?

   ...a creation of a printed document, integrating parts from various
      sources, bundled with input from digital cameras, graphic design
      programs, scanners etc.?

   ...the production of "personalized" output, as happens often in
      enterprise production environments?

   ...connectivity to the world of faxing (receiving and sending)?

   ...and prepare and show the print-runs of "serialized letters" for
      mailings?

One idea is to present a printed document to the visitors which shows
"in print" all the marvellous milestones Free Software has achieved
recently, which is printed "under the eyes" of the audience:

* it is personalized and contains a digital camera shot with a
     portrait of the visitor;

* it contains a scan of the passport of the person (with OCR
     evaluation of the contents);

* it contains text and graphics, which makes interesting reading
     and is taken home as a valuable take-away.

Projects which came to my mind, and which could greatly contribute
to such a joint presentation of "Productive Linux Power on the Desktop"
are:


* Desktop:
     --------
     KDE
     GNOME
     plus more...?


* Document creation:
     ------------------
     OpenOffice.org
     KOffice
     Scribus
     plus more...


* Document storage:
     -----------------
     DjVuLibre
     plus more...?


* Document scanning:
     -----------------
     SANE,
     Kooka
     HPOJ
     plus more...?

+ Image manipulation:
     -------------------
     Gimp
     plus more...


* Vector graphic:
     ---------------
     Sketch
     sodipodi
     plus more...

* OCR:
     ----
     Clara OCR
     GOCR
     plus more...


* Digital photography:
     -------------------
     gphoto
     gtkam
     digikam
     plus more...?


* Printing the stuff:
     -------------------
     CUPS
     Linuxprinting.org
     plus more...


What do you think about this suggestion? Are you willing to join the
effort? We have more than 7 months from now to prepare an excellent
exhibition of all the joining projects' capatilities, and achieve some
really interesting synergy by cooperating on this...

The plan for now is this:

* send out an initial announcement/suggestion to all known contacts

* await the first responses, then have a more formal announcement
     crossposted (once) to various lists and published in some forums.

* set up a mailing list to collect more suggestions, develop more
     ideas, and coordinate the work.

* work. work hard and have fun to make it happen.

The named title(s) in the subject line or in the body of this mail
are mere "working" titles. If someone steps forward with a real
convincing alternative name, or ideas how to extend or sensibly
limit the scope of this enterprise, you are welcome to suggest it.
We are (still) very open about it. But the basic idea of the mission
should be somewhat clear already from our suggestion.

We don't need just software developers or geeks to do this. We also
need people with talents in digital photography, desktop publishing,
image creation, writing good reading documents, presentation skills,
network technicians....

There is probably a good job to do for anybody who is interested to
join -- you don't need to be a tech guru!

Cheers,
        Kurt Pfeifle & Till Kamppeter
        (Linuxprinting.org)

        in co-operation with the LinuxTag Team.


P.S.:  Please make sure to include both of us into your replies. We
-----  will send one more mail to all the ones who received this one
        announcing how to subscribe to a common mailing list. Also,
        we intend to crosspost once to some of the mailingists which
        are related to the mentioned projects. All interested parties
        should then subsribe there. We apologize to everybody who is
        not interested and feels molested by this mail. We also apologize
        if we have forgotten a project which you feel should be part of
        this initiative. Please send us your comments.


Recipients of this mail are (list order doesn't reflect any preferences):
-------------------------------------------------------------------------

Lars Mueller        lars@m5r.de
Grant Taylor        gtaylor@picante.com,
Chris Howells       chris@chrishowells.co.uk
David Pashley       david@davidpashley.com
Klaus Singvogel     kssingvo@suse.de
Peter Missel        peter.missel@eplus-online.de
Rainer Endres       endres@physos.org
Thomas Diehl        thd@kde.org
Richard Wisenöcker  Richard.Wisenoecker@gmx.at
Daniel Molkentin    daniel@molkentin.de
Martin Konold       konold@erfrakon.de
Nils Magnus         magnus@linuxtag.org
Ralf Nolden         nolden@kde.org
Kevin Ivory         Ivory@SerNet.de
Eva Brucherseifer   eva@kde.org
Chris Howells       chrish@gmx.co.uk
Thomas Zander       zander@planescape.com
Ralph Giles         giles@artifex.com
Yann LeCun          yann@lecun.org
Leon Bouttou        leon@bottou.org
Michael Sweet       mike@easysw.com
Karsten Keil        kkeil@suse.de
Torsten Rahn        tackat@t-online.de,
Shawn Pratt         shawn_pratt@hp.com
Roger Leigh         roger@whinlatter.uklinux.net
David Faure         david@mandrakesoft.com
Carsten Pfeiffer    carpdjih@sp.zrz.tu-berlin.de
Aaron J. Seigo      aseigo@olympusproject.org
Gerfried Fuchs      alfie@ist.org
Michael Goffioul    goffioul@imec.be
Tim Waugh           twaugh@redhat.com
Dirk Mueller        dmuell@gmx.net
David Paschal       david_paschal@hp.com
Klaus Knopper       knopper@knopper.net
Michael Kleinhenz   kleinhen@linuxtag.org
Bjoern Jacke        bjoern.jacke@gmx.de



Representing these organistation and projects:

Johannes Meixner      Foomatic (developer), SuSE           Germany
       jsmeix@suse.de

Klaus Singvogel       Foomatic (developer), SuSE           Germany
       kssingvo@suse.de

Raul Dias             Foomatic (developer), Conectiva      Brazil
       raul@dias.com.br, chaos@swi.com.br

Manfred Wassmann      Foomatic (developer), Debian         Germany
       manolo@NCC-1701.B.Shuttle.de

Tim Waugh             Foomatic (developer), Red Hat        U. K.
       twaugh@redhat.com

Bernhard Rosenkränzer Foomatic (developer), Red Hat        Germany
       bero@bero.org, bero@kde.org

Ralph Giles           GNU GhostScript (developer, leader)  U. K.
       giles@artifex.com

Raph Levien           AFPL GhostScript (developer, leader) U. S.
       raph@acm.org, raph@levien.com

Graeme Gill          libicc, argyll (Color Managmnt.)      Australia
       graeme@colorbus.com.au

Martí Maria           Little Color Management System
       marti@littlecms.com

Robert Krawitz        GIMP-Print (leader, Epson dr.)       U. S.
       rlk@alum.mit.edu

Roger Leigh           GIMP-Print (developer)               U. K.
       roger@whinlatter.uklinux.net

Andy Stewart          GIMP-Print (documentation)           U. S.
       andystewart@attbi.com

Peter Missel          GIMP-Print (Canon driver)            Germany
       peter.missel@eplus-online.de, peter.missel@a-city.de

Mark Hamzy            Omni Printer Driver (leader), IBM    U. S.
       hamzy@us.ibm.com

Pete Zannucci         Omni Printer Driver (leader), IBM    U. S.
       pzaan@us.ibm.com

David Suffield        HPIJS Printer Driver (leader), HP    U. S.
       david_suffield@hp.com

David Paschal         HPOJ (leader), HP                    U. S.
       david_paschal@hp.com

Michael Goffioul      KDE Print (development)              Belgium
       goffioul@imec.be, sw286000@swing.be

Kurt Pfeifle          KDE Print (documentation)            Germany
       kpfeifle@danka.de

Michael Sweet         CUPS (leader), ESP GhostScript       U. S.
       mike@easysw.com

Jens Stark            Sharp (laser printers)               Germany
       jens@stark.net, Jens.Stark@seeg.sharp-eu.com

Till Kamppeter        Foomatic, Linuxprinting.org          France/Germany
       Till.Kamppeter@gmx.net


More people
-----------

Printing:
---------
Shawn Pratt           hp.sourceforge.net, HP               U. S.
       shawn_pratt@hp.com

Charles Hemstreet     HPIJS (developer), HP                U. S.
       charles.hemstreet@hp.com

Dave Hill             GIMP-Print (HP PCL, RTL)             U. K.
       dave@minnie.demon.co.uk

Duncan Haldane        GIMP-Print (HP PPA), "pnm2ppa"
       f.duncan.m.haldane@worldnet.att.net

Richard Wisenöcker    GIMP-Print (Lexmark Z5x),            Austria
       Richard.Wisenoecker@gmx.at

Alwin Stolk           GIMP-Print (Lexmark Z4x),drv_z42     Netherlands
       pastolk@xs4all.nl

Thomas                GIMP-Print (Lexm.3200, Z12, Z32)
       beyondinfinity@gmx.net

Eric Sharkey          GIMP-Print (Debian)
       sharkey@netrics.com

Mark Tomlinson        GIMP-Print (dithering)               New Zealand
       mark@southern.co.nz

Thomas Tonino         GIMP-Print (dithering)
       ttonino@users.sourceforge.net

Patrick Powell        LPRng (leader)                       U. S.
       papowell@astart.com

David Chappell        PPR (leader)                         U. S.
       David.Chappell@mail.cc.trincoll.edu

Rildo Pragana         winprinter reverse-engineering       Brazil
       rildo@pragana.net

Julian Bradfield      "ppmtomd" (MicroDry printers)        U. K.
       Bradfieldjcb@dcs.ed.ac.uk

Jean-Jacques Sarton   MTink (Epson maintenance tool)       Germany
       jj.sarton@t-online.de

Claudia Alimpich      Open Print Working Group, IBM        U. S.
       alimpich@us.ibm.com


Scanning:

--------------
Henning Meier-Geinitz SANE (Mustek and more)               Germany
       henning@meier-geinitz.de

Gerhard Jaeger        SANE (Plustek)
       gerhard@gjaeger.de

Karl Heinz Kremer     Color Management, SANE (Eposn)       Germany
       khk@khk.net
Peter Kirchgessner    SANE (HP)                            Germany
       peter@kirchgessner.net

Oliver Rauch          X-SANE (leader)                      Germany
       oliver.rauch@rauch-domain.de

Andreas Beck          SANE (frontends, some drivers)       Germany
       becka@sunserver1.rz.uni-duesseldorf.de

David Mosberger       SANE (frontends, some drivers)       Germany
       David.Mosberger@acm.org


Digital Photography:
--------------------
Lutz Müller           GPhoto2 (project manager)            Germany
       lutz@users.sourceforge.net

Scott Fritzinger      GPhoto2 (project manager)            U. S.
       scottf@unr.edu

Christophe Barbé      GPhoto2 (project manager)
       christophe@cattlegrid.net

Hans Ulrich Niedermann GPhoto2 (project manager)           Germany
       gp@n-dimensional.de

Hubert Figuiere       GPhoto2 (project manager)            France
       hfiguiere@teaser.fr


Color Management
----------------
Graeme Gille, Karl Heinz Kremer, Martí Maria (all already mentioned above)


Optical Character Recognition

------------------------------
I am not on their mailing lists, see web pages for people


Mailing Lists
=============

Printing
--------
CUPS Mailing List - cups@easysw.com
GIMP-Print Developers - gimp-print-devel@sourceforge.net
GhostScript Developers - gs-devel@ghostscript.com
Foomatic Developers - foomatic-devel@linuxprinting.org
IJS/Inkjet Architecture - inkjet-list@linuxprinting.org
Open Print Group (Main) - printing-discuss@freestandards.org
Open Print Group (Capabilities) - printing-cap@freestandards.org
Open Print Group (Drivers) - printing-driver@freestandards.org
Open Print Group (Spoolers) - printing-spool@freestandards.org
Open Print Group (Job Tickets) - printing-jobticket@freestandards.org
Open Print Group (Archit.) - printing-architecture@freestandards.org


Scanning
--------
SANE Developers    - sane-devel@www.mostang.com


Digital Photography
-------------------
GPhoto2 Developers - gphoto-devel@gphoto.net


Scribus
-------
Franz.Schmid@altmuehlnet.de


DjVuLibre
---------
Leon Button           leon@button.org
Yann LeCun            yann@lecun.org


Sketch
--------------
Bernhard Herzog       bernhard@users.sourceforge.net


GNOME
--------------
Christian Meyer       chrisime@gnome.org


sodipodi
--------------
Lauris Kaplinski      lauris@kaplinski.com


OpenOffice.org
--------------
Manfred A. Reiter     manfredr@openoffice.org
Wofgang Henderkes     wolfgang.henderkes@it-know-how.net




Project home pages
==================


Printing
--------

Foomatic     http://www.linuxprinting.org/
GhostScript  http://www.ghostscript.com/
ESP GhostSc. http://www.cups.org/ghostscript.html
GIMP-Print   http://gimp-print.sourceforge.net/
IBM's Omni   http://www-124.ibm.com/developerworks/oss/linux/projects/omni/
HPOJ         http://hpoj.sourceforge.net/
HPIJS        http://hpinkjet.sourceforge.net/
KDE-Print    http://printing.kde.org/
CUPS         http://www.cups.org/
LPRng        http://www.lprng.org/
OpenPrinting http://freestandards.org/openprinting/

More links   http://www.linuxprinting.org/projects.html


Scanning
--------

SANE:        http://www.mostang.com/sane/
HPOJ:        http://hpoj.sourceforge.net/
X-SANE       http://www.xsane.org/
Kooka        http://www.kde.org/kooka/
scanadf      http://www.martoneconsulting.com/sane-scanadf.html

More links   http://www.mostang.com/sane/sane-frontends.html
              http://www.mostang.com/sane/sane-backends-external.html


Digital Photography
-------------------

GPhoto/GTKam http://gphoto.sourceforge.net/ or http://www.gphoto.org/
DigiKam      http://digikam.sourceforge.net/

More links   http://gphoto.sourceforge.net/links/


Color Management
----------------

libicc       http://web.access.net.au/argyll/color.html
argyll       http://web.access.net.au/argyll/argyllcms.html
LittleCMS    http://www.littlecms.com/

More links   http://www.khk.net/color/index.html


Optical Character Recognition
-----------------------------

Clara OCR   http://www.claraocr.org/
GOCR/JOCR   http://jocr.sourceforge.net/
Kooka       http://www.kde.org/kooka/

More links  http://jocr.sourceforge.net/links.html






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