Announcing the 2006 Summer of Code Projects
Hi all!
Today was the final day for the Google Summer of Code proposal rankings. As you can imagine, a number of us inkscaper's have been in deep, intensive discussions and votes to arrive at the final prioritization. The final decision of which 4 to select was extremely difficult, and really came down to the wire.
A large part of the controversy was whether to have both of the SVG filter projects in the top 4, or to go with 4 distinct projects.
But just then, in an amazing stroke of luck, Google was kind enough to allocate an additional project to Inkscape, increasing us to 5 slots! :-)
Thus, our final project selection is as follows:
Application Student Mentor ---------------------------------------------------------------------- SVG Filter Effects #1 Niko Kiirala Bulia Inkboard Protocol Spec / Lib Conversion Dale Harvey David Yip PDF Export with Cairo Mikos Erdelyi Ted Gould Memory Optimization Marina Diezler MenTaLguY SVG Filter Effects #2 Hugo Rodrigues Bulia
As I understand it, one of the SVG filter projects will be focused on the internal handling of filters at the SPObject level, the other will be focused on the rendering of the filters.
Thank you to everyone who applied this year. There were a number of excellent projects, and arriving at the final selection was extremely tough. Many of the proposed ideas were extremely cool and we would love to see them developed, and would love to be able to welcome the applicants to be part of the Inkscape community.
Many criteria went into our final decision, more than can be easily related. However, one of the driving considerations was for work we felt would maximize the benefit to Inkscape users. We know from user feedback that these projects, if completed successfully, will have a transformational effect on Inkscape as an application - by the end of this summer, Inkscape will likely be a light-year ahead of where it is today.
Bryce
Hey devlopers,
I must admit that I was extremely disappointed to not see my name on that list. Considering that I put a lot of effort into my proposal, I feel the need to know why it wasn't accepted. I wasn't able to view the comments/rating on the Google Acocunts; I've just e-mailed them concerning this. Could someone explain to me the reasons why my proposal was not selected ?
Yesterday I was explaining that "my dreams of getting paid to write Free Software was shattered" to some Open Souce activists from GOSLING (http://www.goslingcommunity.org). They encouraged me to attempt to get funding elsewhere, and I will be doing so. I would appreciate any suggestions the Inkscape developers community has on where I could get funding for my effects development interests. My first thought was to go to graphics design companies that use Inkscape (or not). I could generate images for them or improve the functionality of Inkscape for them. I don't know the Graphic Design industry well, so any tips on approacing them would be greatly appreciated.
Considering my pursuit, I need to know who uses Inkscape already. It seems like it would do a lot for the promotioin of the Inkscape if there were to be a list of official endorsers of Inkscape. Does such a list exist ? If not, do you think this is a good idea ?
With or without funding, I'm going to be further developing my stand-alone SVG generation libraries and possibly incorporate them into Inkscape. The former is easier for me than the latter, and considering this, I need to know: are my efforts on effects welcome/encouraged at Inkscape?
Sincerely,
--Justin Barca
Bryce Harrington wrote:
Hi all!
Today was the final day for the Google Summer of Code proposal rankings. As you can imagine, a number of us inkscaper's have been in deep, intensive discussions and votes to arrive at the final prioritization. The final decision of which 4 to select was extremely difficult, and really came down to the wire.
A large part of the controversy was whether to have both of the SVG filter projects in the top 4, or to go with 4 distinct projects.
But just then, in an amazing stroke of luck, Google was kind enough to allocate an additional project to Inkscape, increasing us to 5 slots! :-)
Thus, our final project selection is as follows:
Application Student Mentor
SVG Filter Effects #1 Niko Kiirala Bulia Inkboard Protocol Spec / Lib Conversion Dale Harvey David Yip PDF Export with Cairo Mikos Erdelyi Ted Gould Memory Optimization Marina Diezler MenTaLguY SVG Filter Effects #2 Hugo Rodrigues Bulia
As I understand it, one of the SVG filter projects will be focused on the internal handling of filters at the SPObject level, the other will be focused on the rendering of the filters.
Thank you to everyone who applied this year. There were a number of excellent projects, and arriving at the final selection was extremely tough. Many of the proposed ideas were extremely cool and we would love to see them developed, and would love to be able to welcome the applicants to be part of the Inkscape community.
Many criteria went into our final decision, more than can be easily related. However, one of the driving considerations was for work we felt would maximize the benefit to Inkscape users. We know from user feedback that these projects, if completed successfully, will have a transformational effect on Inkscape as an application - by the end of this summer, Inkscape will likely be a light-year ahead of where it is today.
Bryce
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I considered not sending this reply on list a few times. But decided that OSS is what it is because of public process. The "why" question is a little uncomfortable for me. We did recieve some utterly unnacceptable applications and I don't think it would be appropriate of us to disclose who or what they were. Tell me if I say the wrong things. :-)
Justin Wikinator wrote:
I must admit that I was extremely disappointed to not see my name on that list. Considering that I put a lot of effort into my proposal, I feel the need to know why it wasn't accepted. I wasn't able to view the comments/rating on the Google Acocunts; I've just e-mailed them concerning this. Could someone explain to me the reasons why my proposal was not selected ?
I understand why you might be crushed. (I am too.) But it isn't anything you did. I don't think an explaination will make you feel better, but I think you have earned one if you want one.
There are not any reasons why your proposal was not selected. I think that is the wrong question. You presented an excellent proposal. It was well liked and highly ranked. The decision of which application were not going to be selection was comparitivly easy and completed early on. Your proposal was selected for the final pool of great proposals. So the question is rather "why were other applications selected?" The proposals were ranked by vote according to how they would benefit inkscape user community. And thus applications that corresponded to multitudes of feature requests, bug reports, and irc chats recieved greater numbers of votes.
Yesterday I was explaining that "my dreams of getting paid to write Free Software was shattered" to some Open Souce activists from GOSLING (http://www.goslingcommunity.org). They encouraged me to attempt to get funding elsewhere, and I will be doing so. I would appreciate any suggestions the Inkscape developers community has on where I could get funding for my effects development interests. My first thought was to go to graphics design companies that use Inkscape (or not). I could generate images for them or improve the functionality of Inkscape for them. I don't know the Graphic Design industry well, so any tips on approacing them would be greatly appreciated. Considering my pursuit, I need to know who uses Inkscape already. It seems like it would do a lot for the promotioin of the Inkscape if there were to be a list of official endorsers of Inkscape. Does such a list exist ? If not, do you think this is a good idea ?
I've been musing about such possibilities for a while now. How can we get people with budgets to see investing in features for inkscape as a better investment than paying license fees. I certainly don't have it figured out. But you will have to find someone with a need and have the persistence and data to convince them.
With or without funding, I'm going to be further developing my stand-alone SVG generation libraries and possibly incorporate them into Inkscape. The former is easier for me than the latter, and considering this, I need to know: are my efforts on effects welcome/encouraged at Inkscape?
I welcome and encourage your efforts. I will even offer my assistance.
Aaron Spike
On 5/24/06, Aaron Spike <aaron@...749...> wrote:
There are not any reasons why your proposal was not selected. I think that is the wrong question. You presented an excellent proposal. It was well liked and highly ranked. The decision of which application were not going to be selection was comparitivly easy and completed early on. Your proposal was selected for the final pool of great proposals. So the question is rather "why were other applications selected?" The proposals were ranked by vote according to how they would benefit inkscape user community. And thus applications that corresponded to multitudes of feature requests, bug reports, and irc chats recieved greater numbers of votes.
I would also like to add that the voting/ordering was done under pressure at the last minute, with not all of our mentors present. So there unavoidably was an element of randomness involved. On the other hand, the top rated projects were all good, so maybe it's not exactly bad that the exact order was somewhat affected by pure chance. Not to mention that the exact number of slots was also unpredictable for obvious reasons. Your proposal ended up just one step below the cutoff threshold, so I would consider this just "bad luck" and not at all a sign of some problems with your proposal as such, or our unwillingness to go with it.
On Wed, 24 May 2006, Justin Wikinator wrote:
Date: Wed, 24 May 2006 13:37:50 -0400 From: Justin Wikinator <touchmewithsynchronicpulses@...400...> Cc: inkscape-devel@...6... Subject: Re: [Inkscape-devel] Announcing the 2006 Summer of Code Projects
Hey devlopers,
I must admit that I was extremely disappointed to not see my name on that list. Considering that I put a lot of effort into my proposal, I
Don't take it personally. There were many great proposals and only very few places available.
Yesterday I was explaining that "my dreams of getting paid to write Free Software was shattered"
Hold on to the dream. I'm still hoping some day I'll earn a few pennies out of open source too. If you get a chance to work on Inkscape a bit this year you could certainly improve your chances next year. Even if you can only do a little on rare occasions ever little helps. Anything at all you can do to help the community can help free up someone else to work on another task, even something as simple as helping answer questions on the lists.
Inkscape. The former is easier for me than the latter, and considering this, I need to know: are my efforts on effects welcome/encouraged at Inkscape?
YES. All efforts are appreciated.
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bulia byak -
Justin Wikinator