I intend to resume my work on the KDE4 implementation of the Common Printing Dialog at some point in the near future.  I could work on patching applications for CPDAPI support for GSoC. I also have a friend who has quite a bit of experience with web apps and is looking to do GSoC this year.  He has expressed interest in working on the driver management web app. So, there are students available for at least two of those jobs. Alex <div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Jan 21, 2009 at 12:19 PM, Till Kamppeter <<a href="mailto:till.kamppeter@gmail.com">till.kamppeter@gmail.com</a>> wrote: <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">Hi, I will again apply for the Linux Foundation to participate in the Google Summer of Code. So I want to ask you for your suggestions of coding work at OpenPrinting which could be done by GSoC students and also whether you would volunteer mentoring. Important is that the code will really be used in the near future. Last year we had for example one student implementing the PAPI in CUPS but it seems that in our current printing environments there is no real need for the PAPI. We also need to try to assign projects which students can finish in time. If projects are too big we should split them into two. Note that the students in reality do less than you expect and that if the GSoC is over and they are not ready that they usually do not have time to finish what is still missing. Work which needs to be done is for example: - Patching individual applications to get the DBUS interface for a Common Printing Dialog - Writing a web app to manage printer drivers and PPDsd uploaded by manufacturers - Implementing JTAPI and integrating in foomatic-rip to add job ticket support to the PDF work flow - Coding test suites for printer self certification - Coding on color management integration (TBD by the color management experts and by the OpenPrinting Summit outcomes).    Till _______________________________________________ Printing-architecture mailing list <a href="mailto:Printing-architecture@lists.linux-foundation.org">Printing-architecture@lists.linux-foundation.org</a> <a href="https://lists.linux-foundation.org/mailman/listinfo/printing-architecture" target="_blank">https://lists.linux-foundation.org/mailman/listinfo/printing-architecture</a> </blockquote></div>