Hi all!

I was chatting with Bulia Byak (I believe - please correct me if I'm wrong) on your IRC channel yesterday about Google's Summer of Code. I just wanted to introduce myself to everyone and say that Inkscape is definitely a project I'm really excited about having the chance to work on. More on that in a bit. In the near future, I hope to write the list again with some ideas on possible projects for SoC.

So, a bit about me. My name is Gail and I'm a student at Carleton University. This is my last semester of computer science, after which I will be pursuing a masters of computer science in September. My area of interest is computer vision / graphics / computational geometry. This originally stemmed from the fact that, growing up, I have been really into graphic design in a hobby kind of way. My favorite software has been CorelDRAW, and I even got to work at Corel for some of my co-op terms. I worked on the text engine for DRAW X3, so I imagine it will be a good idea to propose projects outside that area to avoid that nasty IP issue ;) The software is quite large, so there are many areas that I never even touched upon.

And so you can see why Inkscape is an exciting project for me. I haven't used it much in the past, but was able to recently pick it up quickly thanks to my experience with vector graphics. It looks like the software has an awesome base already, and lots of potential for new and innovative tools. I like your culture of enforcing high usability that was implied during my IRC chat. To me this is a very important aspect that is often given too little weight.

That's it for now... If anyone wants to know more about me, please feel free to ask, and if anyone has any big requests for projects this year, I don't mind working with that! And like I said, I intend to play around some more with the program and come up with some new ideas as well.

Until then, Gail