From: Harry Lewis (harryl@us.ibm.com)
Date: Tue Dec 12 2006 - 14:19:48 EST
OK
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Harry Lewis
IBM STSM
Chairman - IEEE-ISTO Printer Working Group
http://www.pwg.org
IBM Printing Systems
http://www.ibm.com/printers
303-924-5337
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"McDonald, Ira" <imcdonald@sharplabs.com>
12/12/2006 12:12 PM
To
Harry Lewis/Boulder/IBM@IBMUS, wamwagner@comcast.net
cc
pwg@pwg.org
Subject
RE: PWG> SC - Should PWG consider hosting print info wiki?
Hi,
On behalf of the FSG Open Printing Steering Commitee,
at the PWG SC meeting next week (21 December 2006),
could we please briefly talk about PWG possibly hosting
the "undocuprint" web pages?
Cheers,
- Ira
Ira McDonald (Musician / Software Architect)
Chair - FSG Open Printing Steering Committee
Blue Roof Music / High North Inc
PO Box 221 Grand Marais, MI 49839
phone: +1-906-494-2434
email: imcdonald@sharplabs.com
-----Original Message-----
From: owner-pwg@pwg.org [mailto:owner-pwg@pwg.org]On Behalf Of Harry Lewis
Sent: Wednesday, November 29, 2006 5:05 PM
To: wamwagner@comcast.net
Cc: pwg@pwg.org
Subject: Re: PWG> SC - Should PWG consider hosting print info wiki?
Sorry, I misinformed. The next SC call is Thursday Dec 7! (not tomorrow).
Thanks, Bill, for pointing this out.
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Harry Lewis
IBM STSM
Chairman - IEEE-ISTO Printer Working Group
http://www.pwg.org
IBM Printing Systems
http://www.ibm.com/printers
303-924-5337
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wamwagner@comcast.net
11/29/2006 01:27 PM
To
Harry Lewis/Boulder/IBM@IBMUS
cc
Subject
Re: PWG> SC - Should PWG consider hosting print info wiki?
Harry,
Is there an SC call tomorrow? The calendar shows the next call for next
week (along with the next WIMS/CIM call.
Bill Wagner
-------------- Original message --------------
From: Harry Lewis <harryl@us.ibm.com>
Chris Lindemann put together his own wiki which appears to be looking for
a home. There is debate over hosting at FSG. I browsed the material and it
attempts to be fairly broad. I'm not sure about the licensing issues
(below)... it mostly just looks like reference material to me. The thought
occurred that the PWG may be a better org to host this. Opinions? (now
and/or at tomorrow's SC meeting).
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Harry Lewis
IBM STSM
Chairman - IEEE-ISTO Printer Working Group
http://www.pwg.org
IBM Printing Systems
http://www.ibm.com/printers
303-924-5337
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----- Forwa! rded by Harry Lewis/Boulder/IBM on 11/29/2006 11:46 AM -----
Christoph Lindemann <Christoph.Lindemann@PrintAssociates.com>
Sent by: printing-driver-bounces@lists.freestandards.org
11/28/2006 06:14 PM
Please respond to
Discussion for the driver API subgroup
<printing-driver@lists.freestandards.org>
To
Till Kamppeter <till.kamppeter@gmail.com>, Hin-Tak Leung
<hintak_leung@yahoo.co.uk>
cc
Discussion for the driver API subgroup
<printing-driver@lists.freestandards.org>
Subject
Re: [printing-driver] PDL Reference Manuals and documentation nee ded
Please see my comments bellow
> I think, this is a good idea, as then all resources are at
> one place and easy to find for everyone, also much easier to maintain.
I totally agree - that's why I started this
> Christoph, I will give you the full support to continue
> hosting this information at FSG Open Printing.
-A problem with this might be, that I don't want this to get infected by
those "my favorite OS is better then your OS" argumentations/wars. I think
the focus should be on providing information to driver developers (free
and
commercial), including all OS (free and commercial).
What would the FSG position on this be? Especially as this would also
include providing information and support for windows driver development.
As
I understand, the FSG is focusing only on Linux. How "compatible" is the
FSG
with other operating ! systems , including both free and commercial, like
Windows and BSD
-Another problem is that the FSG site uses a modified version of the GNU
FDL, which might not be compatible with the standard GNU FDL (all
undocprint
content uses the standard GNU FDL)
> Hin-Tak Leung wrote:
> > The unducprint.printassociates.com web site "got into to my
> radar" a
> > while ago, when I got a e-mail asking about jetready documentation.
> > (the HP color laserjet 3500/3550/3660). I had a look around the web
> > site, and while there seems to be a lot, it looks there is not much
> > more than
> > 1 person there. (all the mailing lists are empty, etc).
Well the site is rather new, 1 year or something. And the printing
community
is not very "informative" or cooperative (or at least not the commercial
players)
> >
> > While the effort is commendable, there is very little indication! of
> > affiliation (who the site admin is, why is he doing it, what are the
> > commercial or not so commercial interests, etc - and why a new site
> > instead of getting the info onto linuxprinting.org or FSG printing,
> > etc.). There are just too many unanswered questions.
To answer some of them:
-The site admin is me, Christoph Lindemann
-I am a software developer at Print Associates A/S
-The non-commercial part in it is, that I have got a lot of help from
Usenet
and open source projects, and lots of small articles and snippets. The
wiki
is kind of my way to pay back to the community. And providing all the
information under the GNU FDL, helping future developers and ensuring the
free availability.
-The commercial part is of course that I hope others will contribute to
this
wiki, and thereby also help me (and everybody else) to easily and quick
find
information for my printing related p! rojects . (and of course, the $10
earned
by ads every month is also a commercial interest ;)
-The answer to "Why" is: I was tired of searching obscure old documents,
ftp
sites, mailing lists and Usenet post, just to find some information. So I
decided to make me a "library" of the information I found. And the next
logical step was of course, why not make this public accessible, so others
also had access to this.
-The answer to "why a new site" is: I mainly work with printing under
Windows, and the first information where all windows related. And there
was
no windows programming printing site, which also need my requirements of
publishing material under a "free" license.
All the other stuff, like PDL and communication protocols came later.
linuxprinting.org would not be the correct place, as this is focused on
Linux (the same as some windowsprinting.org would be just as wrong now)
> > The "collected by me and others" part -! the "o thers" part I am very
> > unsure about.
-The others are the individuals which have provided information that is
included in the wiki. This can be from other "specific" documentation
sites,
open source driver projects, Usenet, and stuff provided to me by email.
It's not like I have reverse engineered everything in the wiki, a lot is
researched by other people, and I have merely collected and merged this
information into this wiki.
Kind regards,
Christoph
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