March 2020 - Inkscape Devel - Inkscape Mailman

Introduction for Google Summer of Code
by Aadhish Sriram 13 Mar '20

13 Mar '20

Hello there, I'm Aadhish Sriram, student studying my second year of college majored in Computer Science and Engineering at SASTRA University, Tamil Nadu, India. I'm aspiring Web Developer, mostly self taught and an Open Source Enthusiast. I'm well versed in C/C++, ES6+ Javascript and React and the tools I mostly use are open sourced ones. I've known about Open Source in my high school days but I never known someone like us contributed to it, not until last Hacktoberfest. I've been introduced to a new perspective of open source where I can contribute to the tools or applications that I use everyday. I couldn't participate in last year Hacktoberfest. I made pact to myself that I would have at least one contribution in next year. Ever since that all my projects are open sourced and available in Github. Now I'm increasing my skills in web development (increasing my knowledge in existing tools), improving my portfolio and recently started contributing to Inkscape and planning to contribute in Godot and Blender (All are made in *C/C++* which is a language I love). My project idea is UI-Free Inkscape project and maybe implement some more actions or verbs related to UI-Free project. <#use-cases>Use Cases Some of the use cases of the project: - A user can queue bulk rendering of his vectors in a render farm or an GPU optimized server. - A professional graphic designer could queue his/her vector drawing to render in his/her organization's server for rendering. - A user or graphic designer could draw his entire SVG using command lines and not worry about disk space comes with graphical dependency.

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Fw: Re: Introduction for Google Summer of Code
by Shlomi Fish 13 Mar '20

13 Mar '20

Hi Usama Ahmed! Next time please reply to all recipients, see: https://www.shlomifish.org/philosophy/computers/netiquette/email/reply-to-l… Hopefully someone on the list can answer your questions. Begin forwarded message: Date: Fri, 13 Mar 2020 00:02:47 +0500 From: Usama Ahmed Siddiquie <usiddiquie.bscs18seecs(a)seecs.edu.pk> To: Shlomi Fish <shlomif(a)shlomifish.org> Subject: Re: [Inkscape-devel] Re: Introduction for Google Summer of Code Hello Shlomi Fish, Thankyou so much for your feedback! I had a couple of questions that I hope you can answer for me. Firstly, the inkscape wiki for the SOC Selection Criteria says we must post our project ideas for feedback before submitting our applications. So was my previous email sufficient or should I write further to explain what I plan to propose and maybe also send a prototype? Secondly, I wanted to ask about the "two patches" rule. We are asked to create and upload patches. Does this involve having these patches accepted into the actual Inkscape codebase or can we simply fork the repository and submit our patches in that and link it in our proposals? On Thu, Mar 12, 2020 at 12:29 AM Shlomi Fish <shlomif(a)shlomifish.org> wrote: > Hi Usama Ahmed, > > welcome aboard. > > On Thu, 12 Mar 2020 00:15:21 +0500 > Usama Ahmed Siddiquie <usiddiquie.bscs18seecs(a)seecs.edu.pk> wrote: > > > Hi there, > > With this year's Google Summer of Code upon us I wanted to introduce > myself > > and share some ideas I have to make Inkscape even better. My Name is > Usama > > Ahmed and I'm from Pakistan. Currently I'm doing my undergraduate degree > in > > Computer Science from The National University of Science and Technology > in > > Islamabad. > > > > My interest in programming developed about 8 years ago when I started > > working on apps and websites. At that time I also found out about > Inkscape > > as a free tool to work with graphics and it blew my mind that I could > > achieve the same things with open source software that I would get from > > other paid software which I could not afford. I always had an interest in > > design and Inkscape helped me add another dimension to my work. I learned > > UI/UX design on it and later began using it to make posters which > included > > artwork I made using code, fusing my interests in coding and design into > > one. > > > > Now I have an opportunity to give back to the Inkscape community as I > > believe I have developed the technical skills to start making > contributions > > to the project. Below I discuss one features I think would make Inkscape > > better. > > > > Currently Inkscape doesn't have a Perspective Grid System which would let > > designers have guides on the screen to easily draw realistic 3-D > Designs. I > > recently felt this difficulty when I wanted to design a logo which > involved > > some perspective geometry. > > > > We can develop a way for designers to place a 1, 2 or 3 point perspective > > grid on the screen and be able to change different parameters associated > > with such grids such as the vanishing points and the granularity of the > > grid. I have attached a rough sketch of what this might look like. > > Furthermore, we can have a feature where a designer can have his designs > > "snap" to different perspectives. To achieve something like this right > now > > we have to skew the drawing which can be difficult. Adobe Illustrator > has a > > feature similar to this > > https://helpx.adobe.com/illustrator/using/perspective-grid.html. Another > > cool feature along these lines would be a system to extract perspective > > lines from raster images by doing edge detection and finding vanishing > > points. This would let designers use reference photos to create 3-D > > illustrations easily. > > > > I would love to work on Inkscape during Google Summer of Code. Let me > know > > what you think of this feature and whether I should pursue it or look > into > > other ideas. > > > > This feature sounds like it will be useful to many users, and I personally > would welcome it. Note that I am only a relatively minor contributor so > it's > not ultimately my decision, and that my graphics' design skills are > limited. > > > Thank you, > > Usama Ahmed > > > > -- > > Shlomi Fish https://www.shlomifish.org/ > Chuck Norris/etc. Facts - https://www.shlomifish.org/humour/bits/facts/ > > “A is A, and A is not not-A? WTH is he talking about??! Of course A can be > not-A! I want a little of the stuff he’s on!” > — Initial reaction to the http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Organon > > Please reply to list if it's a mailing list post - http://shlom.in/reply . > _______________________________________________ > Inkscape Devel mailing list -- inkscape-devel(a)lists.inkscape.org > To unsubscribe send an email to inkscape-devel-leave(a)lists.inkscape.org > -- Shlomi Fish https://www.shlomifish.org/ List of Portability Libraries - https://shlom.in/port-libs What is is. Perceive It. Integrate it. Act on it. Idealize it. — Leonard Peikoff Please reply to list if it's a mailing list post - http://shlom.in/reply .

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Introduction for Google Summer of Code
by Usama Ahmed Siddiquie 11 Mar '20

11 Mar '20

Hi there, With this year's Google Summer of Code upon us I wanted to introduce myself and share some ideas I have to make Inkscape even better. My Name is Usama Ahmed and I'm from Pakistan. Currently I'm doing my undergraduate degree in Computer Science from The National University of Science and Technology in Islamabad. My interest in programming developed about 8 years ago when I started working on apps and websites. At that time I also found out about Inkscape as a free tool to work with graphics and it blew my mind that I could achieve the same things with open source software that I would get from other paid software which I could not afford. I always had an interest in design and Inkscape helped me add another dimension to my work. I learned UI/UX design on it and later began using it to make posters which included artwork I made using code, fusing my interests in coding and design into one. Now I have an opportunity to give back to the Inkscape community as I believe I have developed the technical skills to start making contributions to the project. Below I discuss one features I think would make Inkscape better. Currently Inkscape doesn't have a Perspective Grid System which would let designers have guides on the screen to easily draw realistic 3-D Designs. I recently felt this difficulty when I wanted to design a logo which involved some perspective geometry. We can develop a way for designers to place a 1, 2 or 3 point perspective grid on the screen and be able to change different parameters associated with such grids such as the vanishing points and the granularity of the grid. I have attached a rough sketch of what this might look like. Furthermore, we can have a feature where a designer can have his designs "snap" to different perspectives. To achieve something like this right now we have to skew the drawing which can be difficult. Adobe Illustrator has a feature similar to this https://helpx.adobe.com/illustrator/using/perspective-grid.html. Another cool feature along these lines would be a system to extract perspective lines from raster images by doing edge detection and finding vanishing points. This would let designers use reference photos to create 3-D illustrations easily. I would love to work on Inkscape during Google Summer of Code. Let me know what you think of this feature and whether I should pursue it or look into other ideas. Thank you, Usama Ahmed

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Board Meeting (March 6th 2020 6PM UTC)
by Martin Owens 03 Mar '20

03 Mar '20

Dear all, The next board meeting is on Friday. Because we have several people who aren't able to attend, this will be a lighter than usual meeting. Please see the agenda here: https://wiki.inkscape.org/wiki/index.php?title=Board_Meetings Timer: https://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?iso=20200306T10&p1=202 We probably won't have enough board members to vote on anything. So hopefully we'll be able to spend some time talking about other things. Thanks everyone. Best Regards, Martin Owens

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Wiki account
by Mohamed Ikbel Boulabiar 01 Mar '20

01 Mar '20

Hi, Account creation is disabled in the wiki. As said in the login page, can I have an account? Thanks. i

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