[SoC] Applicant for the canvas widget proposal
Hello!
I'm interested to work on the proposal to separate the SVG canvas widget from the rest of the program.
To submit the application to Google I'm asked the description of the project and I have just sent the text from the wiki. It's ok?
Break out the canvas to a widget
- Create a GTK SVG canvas widget based off SPCanvas, to allow other projects to easily make use of an SVG canvas.
I don't know if I'm going to complete the project, but it's worth trying.
What should I do to have my application approved? (I've cc'ed John Cliff, as it seems to be the mentor for the project :)
On Mon, Jun 06, 2005 at 08:28:18PM +0200, Emanuele Aina wrote:
Hello!
I'm interested to work on the proposal to separate the SVG canvas widget from the rest of the program.
To submit the application to Google I'm asked the description of the project and I have just sent the text from the wiki. It's ok?
You should expand on what we've written, to explain in more detail how you plan to go about doing it, why you're qualified to do it, and the research you've done to understand the task. On the Google administrator's list it was mentioned that applications that only include a couple sentence description are not considered good proposals.
It's also reported that Google has received 2500 applications so far. I think they're only accepting a few hundred, so it's going to be pretty competitive.
Bryce
Bryce Harrington spiegò:
To submit the application to Google I'm asked the description of the project and I have just sent the text from the wiki. It's ok?
You should expand on what we've written, to explain in more detail how you plan to go about doing it, why you're qualified to do it, and the research you've done to understand the task. On the Google administrator's list it was mentioned that applications that only include a couple sentence description are not considered good proposals.
This is the proposal: i'd be glad if anyone would proof-read it, just to check my english... :)
======================================================================== Emanuele Aina <emanuele.aina@...400...>
Inkscape: Break out the canvas to a widget
Create a GTK SVG canvas widget based off SPCanvas, to allow other projects to easily make use of an SVG canvas.
Currently the widget used in Inkscape to display the SVG document is very tied to the editor, and cannot be used indipendently by other applications.
The focus of this project is on the extrapolation of this canvas widget in a separate loadable library, eliminating the need of the entire Inkscape codebase to use it.
This will provide to the open source community a fully functional canvas widget with SVG semantics, making it easier to reuse and embed in external applications.
As Inkscape provide a simple SVG viewer, Inkview, the first target of the project will be to provide a widget for it. When this will be functional the widget is going to be also integrated in the main editor.
Right now I've set up a simple autotool'ed package to host the new library, but I'm going to start working seriously on this project at the beginning of July, because June is still exams period here.
My name is Emanuele Aina and I'm a student at the Politecnico di Torino, Turin, Italy. I've already worked on some open source projects, writing some years ago the run-parts applet for busybox (http://busybox.net), writing with the current Gedit mantainer an experimental system for the spell checking in GNOME (not yet released), and implementing a new generic syntax highlighting engine for GtkSourceView (temporarly hosted on the CVS of GtkSourceView on SourceForge, awaiting for a merge in the CVS HEAD). ========================================================================
Hi Emanuele,
Since I don't know the Inkscape code very well at all, these are mostly grammatical comments. Hopefully they'll help a little though. I'm currently struggling to learn Esperanto (one of the simplest languages), so don't take my comments on your excellent English too harshly ;)
On Wednesday 08 Jun 2005 11:33, Emanuele Aina wrote:
This is the proposal: i'd be glad if anyone would proof-read it, just to check my english... :)
======================================================================== Emanuele Aina <emanuele.aina@...400...>
Inkscape: Break out the canvas to a widget
Create a GTK SVG canvas widget based off SPCanvas, to allow other projects to easily make use of an SVG canvas.
Currently the widget used in Inkscape to display the SVG document is very tied to the editor, and cannot be used indipendently by other
"is tightly bound to the editor" might be a little better. also, "independently"
applications.
The focus of this project is on the extrapolation of this canvas widget in a separate loadable library, eliminating the need of the entire
"to a seperate..." I would probably write "library module", just to emphasise that you're modularising code, which is always a good thing in its own right :)
Inkscape codebase to use it.
This will provide to the open source community a fully functional canvas widget with SVG semantics, making it easier to reuse and embed in external applications.
As Inkscape provide a simple SVG viewer, Inkview, the first target of the project will be to provide a widget for it. When this will be functional the widget is going to be also integrated in the main editor.
If you mention these as actual deliverables, it may make investors more willing to put money into it. So, something like "The project will provide, in two seperate stages: a) ... b) ...")
Right now I've set up a simple autotool'ed package to host the new library, but I'm going to start working seriously on this project at the beginning of July, because June is still exams period here.
My name is Emanuele Aina and I'm a student at the Politecnico di Torino, Turin, Italy. I've already worked on some open source projects, writing some years ago the run-parts applet for busybox (http://busybox.net), writing with the current Gedit mantainer an experimental system for the spell checking in GNOME (not yet released), and implementing a new generic syntax highlighting engine for GtkSourceView (temporarly hosted on the CVS of GtkSourceView on SourceForge, awaiting for a merge in the CVS HEAD).
I'm not sure if Google are aiming to attract *new* people to FLOSS development with this SoC thing. If you can find that out, it may help you to know whether it's a good idea to include that previous experience. But, of course, experience would hopefully always be considered a good thing.
Good luck!!
Lee Braiden wrote:
Emanuele Aina <emanuele.aina@...400...>
The focus of this project is on the extrapolation of this canvas widget in a separate loadable library, eliminating the need of the entire
"to a seperate..."
to correct your correction, here obviously is "to a separate" :D
On Wednesday 08 Jun 2005 12:09, Nicu Buculei wrote:
Lee Braiden wrote:
"to a seperate..."
to correct your correction, here obviously is "to a separate" :D
I *knew* I should've checked with dictionary on that one. I'm forgetting so much since I left school. Thanks :)
Lee Braiden revisionò:
Currently the widget used in Inkscape to display the SVG document is very tied to the editor, and cannot be used indipendently by other
"is tightly bound to the editor" might be a little better. also, "independently"
Ok.
The focus of this project is on the extrapolation of this canvas widget in a separate loadable library, eliminating the need of the entire
"to a seperate..." I would probably write "library module", just to emphasise that you're modularising code, which is always a good thing in its own right :)
Ok.
As Inkscape provide a simple SVG viewer, Inkview, the first target of the project will be to provide a widget for it. When this will be functional the widget is going to be also integrated in the main editor.
If you mention these as actual deliverables, it may make investors more willing to put money into it. So, something like "The project will provide, in two seperate stages: a) ... b) ...")
My try:
The project aims to provide, in two separate stages: a) support for the simple SVG viewer included in Inkscape, Inkview b) support for the main Inkscape editor
Thank you very much for checking my English! :)
This is the result:
======================================================================== Emanuele Aina <emanuele.aina@...400...>
Inkscape: Break out the canvas to a widget
Create a GTK SVG canvas widget based off SPCanvas, to allow other projects to easily make use of an SVG canvas.
Currently the widget used in Inkscape to display the SVG document is tightly bound to the editor, and cannot be used independently by other applications.
The focus of this project is on the extrapolation of this canvas widget in a seperate library module, eliminating the need of the entire Inkscape codebase to use it.
This will provide to the open source community a fully functional canvas widget with SVG semantics, making it easier to reuse and embed in external applications.
The project aims to provide, in two separate stages: a) support for the simple SVG viewer included in Inkscape, Inkview b) support for the main Inkscape editor
Right now I've set up a simple autotool'ed package to host the new library, but I'm going to start working seriously on this project at the beginning of July, because June is still exams period here.
My name is Emanuele Aina and I'm a student at the Politecnico di Torino, Turin, Italy. I've already worked on some open source projects, writing some years ago the run-parts applet for busybox (http://busybox.net), writing with the current Gedit mantainer an experimental system for the spell checking in GNOME (not yet released), and implementing a new generic syntax highlighting engine for GtkSourceView (temporarly hosted on the CVS of GtkSourceView on SourceForge, awaiting for a merge in the CVS HEAD). ========================================================================
On Wed, Jun 08, 2005 at 01:20:25PM +0200, Emanuele Aina wrote:
======================================================================== Emanuele Aina <emanuele.aina@...400...>
Inkscape: Break out the canvas to a widget
Create a GTK SVG canvas widget based off SPCanvas, to allow other projects to easily make use of an SVG canvas.
Currently the widget used in Inkscape to display the SVG document is tightly bound to the editor, and cannot be used independently by other applications.
The focus of this project is on the extrapolation of this canvas widget in a seperate library module, eliminating the need of the entire
separate
Inkscape codebase to use it.
This will provide to the open source community a fully functional canvas widget with SVG semantics, making it easier to reuse and embed in external applications.
The project aims to provide, in two separate stages: a) support for the simple SVG viewer included in Inkscape, Inkview b) support for the main Inkscape editor
Right now I've set up a simple autotool'ed package to host the new library, but I'm going to start working seriously on this project at the beginning of July, because June is still exams period here.
My name is Emanuele Aina and I'm a student at the Politecnico di Torino, Turin, Italy. I've already worked on some open source projects, writing some years ago the run-parts applet for busybox (http://busybox.net), writing with the current Gedit mantainer an experimental system for the spell checking in GNOME (not yet released), and implementing a new generic syntax highlighting engine for GtkSourceView (temporarly hosted on the CVS of GtkSourceView on SourceForge, awaiting for a merge in the CVS HEAD). ========================================================================
This looks good. You may want to also include mention of other SVG widget efforts that exist, such as SVGScene.
Bryce
Bryce Harrington dicharò:
This looks good. You may want to also include mention of other SVG widget efforts that exist, such as SVGScene.
Ok. I've added two lines about that, just before the targets of the project.
======================================================================== Emanuele Aina <emanuele.aina@...400...>
Inkscape: Break out the canvas to a widget
Create a GTK SVG canvas widget based off SPCanvas, to allow other projects to easily make use of an SVG canvas.
Currently the widget used in Inkscape to display the SVG document is tightly bound to the editor, and cannot be used independently by other applications.
The focus of this project is on the extrapolation of this canvas widget in a separate library module, eliminating the need of the entire Inkscape codebase to use it.
This will provide to the open source community a fully functional canvas widget with SVG semantics, making it easier to reuse and embed in external applications. Other open source widgets exist, such as SVGScene or the mozilla widget, but they are still prototypes or not mature or flexible as the Inkscape widget.
The project aims to provide, in two separate stages: a) support for the simple SVG viewer included in Inkscape, Inkview b) support for the main Inkscape editor
Right now I've set up a simple autotool'ed package to host the new library, but I'm going to start working seriously on this project at the beginning of July, because June is still exams period here.
My name is Emanuele Aina and I'm a student at the Politecnico di Torino, Turin, Italy. I've already worked on some open source projects, writing some years ago the run-parts applet for busybox (http://busybox.net), writing with the current Gedit mantainer an experimental system for the spell checking in GNOME (not yet released), and implementing a new generic syntax highlighting engine for GtkSourceView (temporarly hosted on the CVS of GtkSourceView on SourceForge, awaiting for a merge in the CVS HEAD). ========================================================================
On Wed, Jun 08, 2005 at 11:51:23AM +0100, Lee Braiden wrote:
My name is Emanuele Aina and I'm a student at the Politecnico di Torino, Turin, Italy. I've already worked on some open source projects, writing some years ago the run-parts applet for busybox (http://busybox.net), writing with the current Gedit mantainer an experimental system for the spell checking in GNOME (not yet released), and implementing a new generic syntax highlighting engine for GtkSourceView (temporarly hosted on the CVS of GtkSourceView on SourceForge, awaiting for a merge in the CVS HEAD).
I'm not sure if Google are aiming to attract *new* people to FLOSS development with this SoC thing. If you can find that out, it may help you to know whether it's a good idea to include that previous experience. But, of course, experience would hopefully always be considered a good thing.
This is fine. They've mentioned that an objective is to "help students from letting their Open Source skills get rusty over the summer", so I think that showing some prior experience with Open Source will be worthwhile.
Also, from Inkscape's perspective, we'll be looking favorably on applicants that have some OSS experience since they'll probably be able to get up to speed working with the project swifter.
Bryce
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