On 1/25/11, Tavmjong Bah wrote:
We need to update the Inkscape GSOC Wiki page:
http://wiki.inkscape.org/wiki/index.php/Google_Summer_Of_Code
I'll poke around later today if noone gets there first.
- I may be wrong, but I have the sense that we have a fairly high
failure rate for accepted projects. What can we do to improve the project selection?
Not exactly high. The previous year was a 2/5 failure indeed, but the year before was 100% success, if my memory serves me well, and we are talking about 6 or 7 projects in 2009.
One of disappeared students last year had been around in the community for a rather long time, and the other disappeared student did a successful project for GIMP in 2009, so it's quite possible that we just had our bit of bad luck. We did have disappearing students in even earlier GSoCs though. IIRC, this is where the "two patches" rule comes from.
- I would like to see some projects devoted to improving Inkscape
fundamentals:
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All great ideas. Especially the use of CSS is one of the things that really needs doing.
* Easily add/edit hyperlinks
We recently had a blueprint (by Pajarico?) for that.
Alexandre Prokoudine http://libregraphicsworld.org