2008/12/1 Dmitry :
Hello inkscape-devel,
My name is Dmitry, I'm a student from Russia. I'm interested in developing your project and participating in next Summer of Code (2009). I want to know about ideas, which I can take part in. And I'm going to make this work to be my master thesis at University.
GSoC2009 is not announced yet, so your timing is probably not optimal :)
For ideas have a look at
1) https://blueprints.launchpad.net/inkscape/ 2) http://wiki.inkscape.org/wiki/index.php/Roadmap
We also happen to have solid foundation for some features that are not written yet. E.g. 3D Box tool that could be used to create Extrusion tool.
But the best project is a project where you implement something that you are missing yourself in the application.
In the mean time you could start working on fixing bugs, because we approve only those applicants who committed several (two?) patches to fix some issues, which usually is an indicator that a student already knows code base a little and won't procrastinate much.
Alexandre