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#OpenPrinting as part of the #linuxfoundation will again mentor 11 contributors in this year's Google Summer of Code! #GSoC

Our projects cover CUPS 3.x support for #KDE Print Manager, #GNOME Control Center, system-config-printer, pyCUPS, CUPS on #Zephyr, visual analysis of print output for testing, #Rust bindings for libcups/cpdb-libs, utilizing #OSSFuzz Gen, OSS-Fuzz for Go/Python projects, modernize #GTK print dialog, web site improvement with #Nextjs.

More soon on
https://openprinting.github.io/news/

At OpenPrinting we are full steam in the preparations for the Google Summer of Code 2025!

Many enthusiastic contributor candidates are already chatting with us, watching our videos, reading our introductions, studying our code, doing onboarding exercises ...

And what about you? We have listed 15 exciting project ideas, or you bring your own.

Introduction to read and to what, and the project ideas are here:

https://wiki.linuxfoundation.org/gsoc/google-summer-code-2025-openprinting-projects

#OpenPrinting #GSoC #CUPS #OSSfuzz #KDE #GNOME

La herramienta #OSSFuzz de #Google, impulsada por #IA encontró, 26 #vulnerabilidades en proyectos de código abierto
https://blogs.masterhacks.net/noticias/hacking-y-ciberdelitos/la-herramienta-oss-fuzz-de-google-impulsada-por-ia-encontro-26-vulnerabilidades-en-proyectos-de-codigo-abierto/

Woohoo! Many thanks to Oliver Chang and the #ossfuzz team!

Email showing that the pull request "Build in stages to shed 9gb from the jvm base builder image" had been merged.

Re: [google/oss-fuzz] Build in 2 stages to shed 9gb from the jym

base builder image (PR #12649)

Merged 12649 into master.

First pr on google's #ossfuzz! Let's hope it doesn't break anything.

https://github.com/google/oss-fuzz/pull/12649

@varx
off topic but might be useful Google’s #ossfuzz project is a pretty amazing resource for fuzzing to find vulns in open source projects.

The schedules for the second #OpportunityOpenSource in the IIT Kanpur in India onn August 24-26 are ready!

3 rooms (2 talks/panels, 1 workshops) are packed with 50 amazing sessions!

There are:
- #OpenPrinting, with Michael Sweet, author of #CUPS
- #Zephyr
- #Snap, incl. workshop
- Hands-on with #firmware programming
- #BlendOS
- Workshop to make your own #Ubuntu flavor
- #OSSfuzz testing
- Population AI
- GSoC panel
- "Work at #Canonical" panel
- a lot more ...

https://events.canonical.com/event/89/timetable

If you need a pick me up, look no further than the tidbit that the maintainer who put the back door into xz got #ossfuzz to turn off the functionality that would have revealed the exploit.