Post #829536

2025-07-28 19:20 UTC

Urgent help for OpenPrinting needed! As many here know, I am co-founder and lead of OpenPrinting since 2001, known as the print guru for Linux and free software by many. I also got one of the 8 fellows of the Linux Foundation for this. Up to now I was working at Canonical, hired back in 2006 just to run OpenPrinting and also to maintain printing-related Ubuntu packages. ... 🧵 Please boost. #OpenPrinting #LinuxFoundation #getfedihired

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@till@ubuntu.social 2025-07-28 19:23

🧵 ... With the time, Canonical has grown and created internal structures as a big-tech, especially how employees are evaluated. With my mostly external work I got a victim of it and they laid me off. All my colleagues do not really understand why I got fired, as they consider my work really important. Got ~30 "I am really sad that you have to go, you do not deserve it, you are doing great work" answers to my good-bye e-mail ... 🧵 #OpenPrinting #LinuxFoundation #getfedihired

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@till@ubuntu.social 2025-07-28 19:25

🧵 ... and more than 30 Canonicalers have connected with me on LinkedIn. Now I want to continue doing OpenPrinting for a living, and need a way to do so. I am currently working with the Linux Foundation to make OpenPrinting an organiation which can receive sponsor funding. So now I am looking for sponsors. Even greater would be, if independent of this somebody could hire me to continue OpenPrinting ... ... 🧵 #OpenPrinting #LinuxFoundation #getfedihired

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@till@ubuntu.social 2025-07-28 19:27

🧵 ... OpenPrinting is an essential piece of the free software system infrastructure and it needs to be kept in its good shape in which it is currently, many people appreciating my work and sometimes even telling that for them printing works better than under Windows or macOS. Any help is appreciated, including just boosting this thread. ... 🧵 #OpenPrinting #LinuxFoundation #getfedihired

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@till@ubuntu.social 2025-07-28 20:34

🧵 ... LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/kamppetertill/ https://openprinting.github.io/news/ ... 🧵 #OpenPrinting #LinuxFoundation #getfedihired

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@till@ubuntu.social 2025-07-28 21:57

🧵 ... Interview of me and Michael Sweet (author of CUPS) in #DestinationLinux : https://youtu.be/CLEMiM0L2Jk ... 🧵 #OpenPrinting #LinuxFoundation #getfedihired

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@till@ubuntu.social 2025-08-07 22:04

Thanks a lot to everybody who has boosted the initial post of this thread! I got 1082 boosts within somewhat more than one week! And still any help is welcome and please continue boosting (the initial post)! #OpenPrinting #LinuxFoundation #GetFediHired

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@till@ubuntu.social 2025-11-05 18:27

Thanks a lot to everybody who has boosted my initial post of this thread! I have amazing news now: The Sovereign Tech Agency @sovtechfund is investing in OpenPrinting! See https://ubuntu.social/@till/115498465133408746 #OpenPrinting

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