I was thinkimg that we should put two additional comments there, but I wanted to run them by everyone:

* Applicants should consider fixing one current Inkscape bug and including it's number in their application.

* Applicants are encouraged to post their proposals to the inkscape-devel list for discussion before submitting them to Google.

Thoughts?

FWIW,

On http://wiki.inkscape.org/wiki/index.php/SOC_Application_Template linked to from http://wiki.inkscape.org/wiki/index.php/Googles_Summer_Of_Code_2008

there is already the following under Tasks:

Introduce yourself on the Inkscape developers mailing list, and post your project ideas for feedback, before submitting your application
Find and fix one or two bugs in the Inkscape bug tracker. Create and upload patches for the bugs, and make sure we know to connect those bug fixes and your GSoC application.

/Simon