The Tech’o’Space Podcast Ep 86 : Linux Leadership Without Borders: Global Open Source Impact Pt 1

In this podcast episode we are absolutely honored to interact and connect with Mr. Till Kamppeter who is the Co-Founder and Organization Lead, Co-Founder and Project Lead of OpenPrinting organization and Co-Founder and Organization Lead of OpportunityOpenSource initiative and he is based out of Vienna, Austria a) Gives a timeline of his journey in the IT space.b) Sheds some spotlight into his other initiative "Opportunity Open Source" and its collaborations with different IITs, universities, colleges in India.c) Provides an overview about his organization "OpenPrinting" and also shares an interesting back-story associated with it.d) Mentions about his roles and responsibilities of being a co-founder and organization lead of OpenPrinting organization.Related links for the show notes OpenPrintingWeb: https://www.openprinting.orgLinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/openprinting/posts/Mastodon: https://ubuntu.social/tags/OpenPrintingTelegram: https://t.me/+RizBbjXz4uU2ZWM1GitHub: https://github.com/openprintingMore contacts: https://openprinting.github.io/contact/About us: https://openprinting.github.io/about-us/- OpenPrinting NewsNews, 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 2025Project 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 IndiaLinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/opportunityopensource/posts/Opportunity Open Source 1.0 (2023) in the IIT Mandihttps://openprinting.github.io/OpenPrinting-News-September-2023/#opportunitiy-open-source-in-the-iit-mandi-indiaOpportunity Open Source 2.0 (2024) in the IIT Kanpurhttps://openprinting.github.io/OpenPrinting-News-August-2024/#opportunity-open-source-in-iit-kanpurOpportunity Open Source 3.0 (2025) in the IIT Kanpurhttps://openprinting.github.io/OpenPrinting-News-Opportunity-Open-Source-3.0-in-the-IIT-Kanpur,-India/- Till in videos and podcastsTech over Tea: Till Kamppeter about everything OpenPrinting, the layoff, and howhe is recoveringhttps://openprinting.github.io/OpenPrinting-News-Tech-over-Tea-300-Brodie-interviews-Till-Kamppeter/Destination Linux: Till Kamppeter and Michael Sweet about the history ofOpenPrintinghttps://youtu.be/CLEMiM0L2JkUbuntu Indaba: Till Kamppeter and Michael Sweet about the New Architecturehttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P22DOu_ahBoUbuntu Office Hours: Till Kamppeter and Aveek Basu about the Google Summer of Codehttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=diB3wm4HB1YUbuntu Summit 2022: Till Kamppeter hosting an OpenPrinting panel with ZdenekDohnal, Johannes Meixner, Aveek Basu, and Deepak Patankarhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RbgXmDjxYa4Ask Noah: Till Kamppeter on how OpenPrinting improved printing with Linux/Unixhttps://podcast.asknoahshow.com/368?t=2837Linux Saloon: Till Kamppeter about how he got Snap enthusiasthttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m5QKJH9tDjQOpenPrinting - We make printing just work! Till Kamppeter, FOSDEM 2024,Brussels, Belgiumhttps://fosdem.org/2024/schedule/event/fosdem-2024-1930-openprinting-we-make-printing-just-work-/