On Mon, Oct 15, 2007 at 07:05:24PM +0200, Steren Giannini wrote:
Hello, We are a team of five french students from the "Ecole Centrale de Lyon" (an engineer high school, see www.ec-lyon.fr). Our programs are quite general, we attend programming lessons but we are not informatics specialists
In second year, we have to work on a professional project for five months (officialy 4 hours a week, but... we can spend much more time). I thought it would be a good idea to help developing inkscape. The only things the school demands is a tutor (in our case, from the dev team) and requirements. The tutor will be here to help on specific technical questions, to check the progress of the project and to validate goals.
I have been using inkscape for two years for serious projects. And I am currently working with both the stable and the svn version (on ubuntu and windows) I've found some some projects from the wiki that could fit with what we have to do :
- the perspective tool (
http://wiki.inkscape.org/wiki/index.php/PerspectiveObject )
- the add/substract node tool (
http://wiki.inkscape.org/wiki/index.php/NewTools )
- Inkscape / GIMP raster graphics Editing Integration from GSoC 07
The perspective tool might be quite ripe for a student project; the GSoC project focused on the underpinnings, and I believe there are a number of avenues to take it from here. Hopefully Bulia could provide more info on directions that can be taken.
Btw, that NewTools page is actually pretty out-dated. The add/subtract tool, paint tool, and other ideas on that page are already implemented. However, there seems to always be more work to be done on tools, so Bulia may have some alternate suggestions for tool improvements or enhancements needed.
I don't know the status of the raster graphics integration work. But I'd suggest doublechecking that we're not at a point where major architectural work is required before moving ahead, as that would not fit within a high school student project.
Hope this helps, Bryce