Re: [hfdb] Sorry - fixed now Re: [Fwd: Summary of the LSM Free Software Printing Summit]

[Zenaan Harkness]

On Tue, 2004-07-27 at 07:39, Zenaan Harkness wrote:
> On Tue, 2004-07-27 at 00:46, Joe Shaw wrote:
> > On Sun, 2004-07-25 at 07:31 +1000, Zenaan Harkness wrote:
> > > And beyond even that, in the HFDB project we are working to a
> > > unified db of hardware device descriptions across all hardware device
> > > categories. At the minimum, a centralized collection point, but I think
> > > ideally actually storing all the data, and generating multiple output
> > > formats as needed for various projects.
> > 
> > Makes sense, I think.  You should talk to the foomatic folks and see if
> > you can get some buy in to the idea.  At the very least, the foomatic DB
> > is a good starting point for your own printer database.
> 
> Thanks for all that Joe, we will do so (soon-ish :).

Well, I was a little slow on the realization here - Foomatic and
linuxprinting.org are all but the same project. We are working together
with Till Kamppeter as we move forward.

thanks
zen