Hello everybody,

I am a young student in a French University (4th year). I am actually following a master degree about Image Processing. I am strongly interest to join Inkscape developer community through Google Summer Of Code. Indeed, my studying field is close to some technologies used by Inkscape, and I'd like to improve my skills. I am also a happy Inkscape (basic) end-user since 2 years now.

But before, I would like to check that I am able to be a good developer for you. So I compiled the code last night, and I am checking for some easy tasks to do. This will be a good way for me to understand a little bit how the code is working.

I saw the Janitor tasks on the wiki[1] and naturally the bug list from launchpad[2]. Do you have any recommendations for me ? I actually found two interesting bug I will have a look for. This is actually not bug but features requests.

First of all : https://bugs.launchpad.net/inkscape/+bug/171099 . Users are asking for an option to display printer boundaries. This is something I regularly missed with Inkscape when I want to print some document. Sometimes I have some bad result, because the print area is too small for my printer.

And secondly, https://bugs.launchpad.net/inkscape/+bug/171117 . Users are asking for an "Ungroup All". Sometimes when I import some Open Clip Art files, I would like to ungroup all before I start to work. So I think it can be useful.

I also thought about another features. I did not see it on Inkscape wiki or Bug tracker but, I probably missed it. I would like to have some easy way to upload a svg file to the Open Clip Art library. Because I am using this wonderful resources regularly, and I like to share my creation easily on this website.

I also started to think about a project for GSoC, I saw a mail about Cairo rendering. I would be quite interest in this idea, since I am working with Cairo for one of my project in my university.

Feel you free to give me any suggestions about these ideas.

Best Regards,

[1] http://wiki.inkscape.org/wiki/index.php/InkscapeJanitors

[2] https://bugs.launchpad.net/inkscape/+bugs