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The participation of the Linux Foundation in the Google Summer of Code is organized by Till Kamppeter (till at linux dot com) and Aveek Basu (basu dot aveek at gmail dot com).

1. Extract raster data from PDFs for direct printing

Student: Vikrant Malik
Mentors: Sahil Arora, Till Kamppeter
Work Product

PASSED

2. General Printer Application SDK

Student: Jai Luthra
Mentors: Mentors: Michael Sweet, Till Kamppeter
Work Product

PASSED

Jai has principally worked on PAPPL but also done an HP PCL sample Printer Application. In the end he has also worked on converting filters of cups-filters into filter functions.

3. Linux GUI application to admin MF devices using IPP System Service

Student: Lakshay Bandlish
Mentor: Michael Sweet
Work Product

PASSED

4. Make Printer Applications Configurable

Student: Sambhav Dusad
Mentor: Michael Sweet
Work Product

PASSED

Sambhav has also started to create a Gutenprint Printer Application.

5. Speed/Scaling Optimisation of cups-browsed

Student: Mohit Mohan
Mentors: Deepak Patankar, Till Kamppeter
Work Product

PASSED

6. Common Print Dialog Backends (CPDB) Qt ImplementationPermalink

Student: Priydarshi Singh
Mentor: Dongxu Li
Work Product

FAILED(final evaluation)

We are looking into finishing up CPDB after GSoC.

7. IPP Scan (or virtual MF device) server (Scanner Application)Permalink

Student: Aakash Lahoti
Mentors: Michael Sweet, Alexander Pevzner

WITHDRAWN (shortly after first evaluation)
We have replaced this project by a 2-student LFMP project (see here).