Hello,
Thanks to you all and the rest of the Inkscape community for making such a great project.
I am a masters student at Australian National University. I am currently part of a course on FOSS run by Andrew Tridge and Bob Edwards.This boosted my huge enthusiasm in contributing to the FOSS community and the software I use. For this course I will be making a report on the study of the Inkscape(inc. culture, governance, etc), as well as a report of my work. The experience from my Bachelor of I.T left me feeling like I didn't know very much about real software development. Studying your project has really helped to open my eyes and I want to contribute as much as I can.
I sent my first patch recently to fix the too small default window size, which is at https://bugs.launchpad.net/inkscape/+bug/830663. Thanks to ~suv and JazzyNico for testing it. It has not been accepted and is still being discussed. I am looking forward to more recommendations and suggestions on how I can improve the patch. At the mean time, I will try to fix more bugs and send more patches.
Finally I greatly enjoyed my short time with inkscape and hope to participate in GSoC as well.
Cheers, Jiabao