Summer of Code Participants Chosen
Hi all,
Google has made the final selections for their Summer of Code and sent out the notifications. The following four applications were selected for Inkscape:
Topic Applicant ------------------------------------------- Connectors - Michael Wybrow Inkboard - David Yip OCAL Interface - Greg Steffensen DXF Import/Export - Matthew Squires
Of course, I was really hoping we could have a few more, because there were several other extremely good proposals for Connectors, Cairoification, libpdf from Scribus, a Genetics Algorithm based tracer, and much more. You can imagine how much discussion and debate that the reviewers have had this past week; it's been a very tough decision process. However, these four projects will provide Inkscape with some new strengths and new capabilities for our users.
The prioritization process that the reviewers used in evaluating the applications weighed a number of factors to reach their decisions, including: The quality of the application, the background of the applicant and their familiarity with the subject matter, the importance of the feature to Inkscape, whether the effort would result in something of tangible benefit in the time available, and whether we felt the applicant had a strong likelihood of completing the effort successfully.
Regarding mentors, we've not yet finalized on who will mentor which efforts, but there are several developers who have expressed interest in mentoring or whom I think would make good fits to the topics. Simarilius and I will be contacting these people over the next day or two and finalize the arrangements. In the meantime, Sim and I can field questions.
Greg, Michael, David, and Matthew, I would also like to encourage you to post your proposals publically for the rest of the Inkscape community to see; they're quite good. :-) You're welcome to use the Inkscape wiki if you do not have a website of your own. In any case, please post your links on this page:
http://www.inkscape.org/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?Googles_Summer_Of_Code
If you're interested, a few folks are setting up software for you to use for blogging about your work as well.
Also, if you're not already, please join the inkscape-devel@ list; we use that list for darn near all our technical discussion.
Thanks, and welcome aboard! Bryce
Thanks for the warm welcome, Bryce!
My proposal can be found here:
http://www.rose-hulman.edu/~yipdw/inkscape-proposal.txt
It's admittedly a little brief and (I now realize) is short on details such as a project schedule, but I see that it made the point :) I've got those materials drawn up now and will be discussing them with my mentor as soon as possible.
I'm really looking forward to working on Inkscape. Thanks again for giving us this opportunity!
David Yip
On Saturday 25 June 2005 03:16 pm, you wrote:
Hi all,
Google has made the final selections for their Summer of Code and sent out the notifications. The following four applications were selected for Inkscape:
Topic Applicant
Connectors - Michael Wybrow Inkboard - David Yip OCAL Interface - Greg Steffensen DXF Import/Export - Matthew Squires
Of course, I was really hoping we could have a few more, because there were several other extremely good proposals for Connectors, Cairoification, libpdf from Scribus, a Genetics Algorithm based tracer, and much more. You can imagine how much discussion and debate that the reviewers have had this past week; it's been a very tough decision process. However, these four projects will provide Inkscape with some new strengths and new capabilities for our users.
The prioritization process that the reviewers used in evaluating the applications weighed a number of factors to reach their decisions, including: The quality of the application, the background of the applicant and their familiarity with the subject matter, the importance of the feature to Inkscape, whether the effort would result in something of tangible benefit in the time available, and whether we felt the applicant had a strong likelihood of completing the effort successfully.
Regarding mentors, we've not yet finalized on who will mentor which efforts, but there are several developers who have expressed interest in mentoring or whom I think would make good fits to the topics. Simarilius and I will be contacting these people over the next day or two and finalize the arrangements. In the meantime, Sim and I can field questions.
Greg, Michael, David, and Matthew, I would also like to encourage you to post your proposals publically for the rest of the Inkscape community to see; they're quite good. :-) You're welcome to use the Inkscape wiki if you do not have a website of your own. In any case, please post your links on this page:
http://www.inkscape.org/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?Googles_Summer_Of_CodeIf you're interested, a few folks are setting up software for you to use for blogging about your work as well.
Also, if you're not already, please join the inkscape-devel@ list; we use that list for darn near all our technical discussion.
Thanks, and welcome aboard! Bryce
On Jun 25, 2005, at 1:16 PM, Bryce Harrington wrote:
Google has made the final selections for their Summer of Code and sent out the notifications. The following four applications were selected for Inkscape:
Topic Applicant
Connectors - Michael Wybrow Inkboard - David Yip OCAL Interface - Greg Steffensen DXF Import/Export - Matthew Squires
Eeek! A lot happens when I'm not looking.
Well... things have settled a bit at work, and I've gotten the kids transitioned to summer, so I can get back to being around now.
Off hand Connectors and DXF are two that I could see helping with. Also, adding any help as needed is fine. I've got to run to lunch, but wanted to make sure it was known that I'm back and can help support this.
Many thanks to the reviewers and to the developers who have already given valuable technical feedback on this list; my proposal isn't breathtaking in its technical ambition, but I think its a valuable real world feature that Inkscape-the-product will benefit from. I look forward to becoming the least tan student on campus. I've added a link to my proposal from the wiki. It contains a link to my prototype code, but that's just there for historians; I'm getting a new Berlios site for my project (as opposed to sharing one, as it does now). And I'm definitely interested in using the blogging system you guys are setting up; what should I do? Also, my proposal states that my project will be implemented in python, which I think is clearly preferrable to c for something like this. That means it'll require the PyGTK bindings, which I'm worried will be a hassle for most windows users. There's things I can do to get around that; should I worry about it? Greg On 6/25/05, Bryce Harrington <bryce@...260...> wrote:
Hi all,
Google has made the final selections for their Summer of Code and sent out the notifications. The following four applications were selected for Inkscape:
Topic Applicant
Connectors - Michael Wybrow Inkboard - David Yip OCAL Interface - Greg Steffensen DXF Import/Export - Matthew Squires
Of course, I was really hoping we could have a few more, because there were several other extremely good proposals for Connectors, Cairoification, libpdf from Scribus, a Genetics Algorithm based tracer, and much more. You can imagine how much discussion and debate that the reviewers have had this past week; it's been a very tough decision process. However, these four projects will provide Inkscape with some new strengths and new capabilities for our users.
The prioritization process that the reviewers used in evaluating the applications weighed a number of factors to reach their decisions, including: The quality of the application, the background of the applicant and their familiarity with the subject matter, the importance of the feature to Inkscape, whether the effort would result in something of tangible benefit in the time available, and whether we felt the applicant had a strong likelihood of completing the effort successfully.
Regarding mentors, we've not yet finalized on who will mentor which efforts, but there are several developers who have expressed interest in mentoring or whom I think would make good fits to the topics. Simarilius and I will be contacting these people over the next day or two and finalize the arrangements. In the meantime, Sim and I can field questions.
Greg, Michael, David, and Matthew, I would also like to encourage you to post your proposals publically for the rest of the Inkscape community to see; they're quite good. :-) You're welcome to use the Inkscape wiki if you do not have a website of your own. In any case, please post your links on this page:
http://www.inkscape.org/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?Googles_Summer_Of_Code
If you're interested, a few folks are setting up software for you to use for blogging about your work as well.
Also, if you're not already, please join the inkscape-devel@ list; we use that list for darn near all our technical discussion.
Thanks, and welcome aboard! Bryce
An additional ten seconds of thought has revealed that there are already plenty of python extensions with gtk interfaces, so the issue I mentioned is old ground. Never mind! Greg
On 6/25/05, Greg Steffensen <greg.steffensen@...400...> wrote:
Many thanks to the reviewers and to the developers who have already given valuable technical feedback on this list; my proposal isn't breathtaking in its technical ambition, but I think its a valuable real world feature that Inkscape-the-product will benefit from. I look forward to becoming the least tan student on campus. I've added a link to my proposal from the wiki. It contains a link to my prototype code, but that's just there for historians; I'm getting a new Berlios site for my project (as opposed to sharing one, as it does now). And I'm definitely interested in using the blogging system you guys are setting up; what should I do? Also, my proposal states that my project will be implemented in python, which I think is clearly preferrable to c for something like this. That means it'll require the PyGTK bindings, which I'm worried will be a hassle for most windows users. There's things I can do to get around that; should I worry about it? Greg On 6/25/05, Bryce Harrington <bryce@...260...> wrote:
Hi all,
Google has made the final selections for their Summer of Code and sent out the notifications. The following four applications were selected for Inkscape:
Topic Applicant
Connectors - Michael Wybrow Inkboard - David Yip OCAL Interface - Greg Steffensen DXF Import/Export - Matthew Squires
Of course, I was really hoping we could have a few more, because there were several other extremely good proposals for Connectors, Cairoification, libpdf from Scribus, a Genetics Algorithm based tracer, and much more. You can imagine how much discussion and debate that the reviewers have had this past week; it's been a very tough decision process. However, these four projects will provide Inkscape with some new strengths and new capabilities for our users.
The prioritization process that the reviewers used in evaluating the applications weighed a number of factors to reach their decisions, including: The quality of the application, the background of the applicant and their familiarity with the subject matter, the importance of the feature to Inkscape, whether the effort would result in something
of tangible benefit in the time available, and whether we felt the applicant had a strong likelihood of completing the effort successfully.
Regarding mentors, we've not yet finalized on who will mentor which efforts, but there are several developers who have expressed interest in mentoring or whom I think would make good fits to the topics. Simarilius and I will be contacting these people over the next day or two and finalize the arrangements. In the meantime, Sim and I can field questions.
Greg, Michael, David, and Matthew, I would also like to encourage you to post your proposals publically for the rest of the Inkscape community to see; they're quite good. :-) You're welcome to use the Inkscape wiki if you do not have a website of your own. In any case, please post your links on this page:
http://www.inkscape.org/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?Googles_Summer_Of_Code
If you're interested, a few folks are setting up software for you to use for blogging about your work as well.
Also, if you're not already, please join the inkscape-devel@ list; we use that list for darn near all our technical discussion.
Thanks, and welcome aboard! Bryce
On Sat, 25 Jun 2005, Bryce Harrington wrote:
Greg, Michael, David, and Matthew, I would also like to encourage you to post your proposals publically for the rest of the Inkscape community to see; they're quite good. :-)
Wow!
Thankyou to Bryce, John Cliff and anyone else involved in the selection process. I'm looking forward to spending the next couple of months adding connectors to Inkscape. My proposal can be found here: http://www.csse.monash.edu.au/~mwybrow/soc-proposal.txt
I'd be happy to keep a development blog. It seems like a neat idea, and a good way of tracking progress.
Cheers, Michael
I've created a development site for the ocal interface at
http://developer.berlios.de/project/ocalhelper
There's not much there yet, of course, but the prototype code is up and the web interface to the SVN repository should be browsable soon (it isn't now, but that may be a setup delay thing). Bugs, etc. should be filed there. I've updated the wiki; Michael, David and Matthew, you guys may want to add links to your development pages too.
Greg
On 6/26/05, Michael Wybrow <mjwybrow@...839...> wrote:
On Sat, 25 Jun 2005, Bryce Harrington wrote:
Greg, Michael, David, and Matthew, I would also like to encourage you to post your proposals publically for the rest of the Inkscape community to see; they're quite good. :-)
Wow!
Thankyou to Bryce, John Cliff and anyone else involved in the selection process. I'm looking forward to spending the next couple of months adding connectors to Inkscape. My proposal can be found here: http://www.csse.monash.edu.au/~mwybrow/soc-proposal.txt
I'd be happy to keep a development blog. It seems like a neat idea, and a good way of tracking progress.
Cheers, Michael
On Mon, 2005-06-27 at 23:35 -0400, Greg Steffensen wrote:
I've created a development site for the ocal interface at
Weird, URL works here: http://developer.berlios.de/projects/ocalhelper/
Needed that trailing slash...
Jon
There's not much there yet, of course, but the prototype code is up and the web interface to the SVN repository should be browsable soon (it isn't now, but that may be a setup delay thing). Bugs, etc. should be filed there. I've updated the wiki; Michael, David and Matthew, you guys may want to add links to your development pages too.
Greg
On 6/26/05, Michael Wybrow <mjwybrow@...839...> wrote: On Sat, 25 Jun 2005, Bryce Harrington wrote: > > Greg, Michael, David, and Matthew, I would also like to encourage you to > post your proposals publically for the rest of the Inkscape community to > see; they're quite good. :-)
Wow! Thankyou to Bryce, John Cliff and anyone else involved in the selection process. I'm looking forward to spending the next couple of months adding connectors to Inkscape. My proposal can be found here: http://www.csse.monash.edu.au/~mwybrow/soc-proposal.txt I'd be happy to keep a development blog. It seems like a neat idea, and a good way of tracking progress. Cheers, Michael
I've created a development site for the ocal interface at
Weird, URL works here:
http://developer.berlios.de/projects/ocalhelper/
Needed that trailing slash...
Actually, it looks like it needed the "s" in "projects". ;)
-Josh
Mentors for the four efforts have been confirmed:
Connectors
OCAL Interface
Topic Applicant Mentor
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Connectors - Michael Wybrow Pjrm Inkboard - David Yip Ted OCAL Interface - Greg Steffensen Bryce DXF Import/Export - Matthew Squires JonCruz
Mentors and applicants should probably touch base, to talk both about schedule and about what the applicant would like to learn. For example, if they've not participated in open source projects, it would be worthwhile for the mentor to point out how Inkscape works, compare it with other projects, etc.
Some logistics: Since we're in a feature freeze for the 0.42 release currently, applicants should not submit patches or commits to the main codebase quite yet. I figure it may be a few weeks before we have 0.42 done. This is probably fine, since the applicants will need time to get up to speed anyway. ;-)
Bryce
participants (7)
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Bryce Harrington -
David Yip -
Greg Steffensen -
Jon A. Cruz -
Jon Phillips -
Joshua A. Andler -
Michael Wybrow