Google's Summer of Code 2009 - Let's take the bull by the horns!
Hey all,
I just received word that Inkscape has been selected as a mentoring organization for Google's Summer of Code (GSoC) 2009. Let's make our fifth year, the best yet!
Will any potential mentors quickly chime in so we have an idea of who wants to participate this year? As things have been before, we will have to request the number of slots we would like. Knowing that, the sooner we can get a feel for how many people want to mentor, the better.
This would also be a good time for any potential student participants to start putting together their proposals.
For reference, our wiki page containing information and ideas about GSoC 2009 is at: http://wiki.inkscape.org/wiki/index.php/Googles_Summer_Of_Code_2009
As of this point, any and all interested community members are encouraged to take a look at that page and help to improve or add proposal ideas.
Thanks everyone, we wish all participants good luck at making this another successful Summer of Code!
Cheers, Josh
On Wed, Mar 18, 2009 at 4:01 PM, Joshua A. Andler <scislac@...155...> wrote:
Will any potential mentors quickly chime in so we have an idea of who wants to participate this year?
I can mentor again this year.
These are the ideas that I am interested:
# Font editing and creation features. to continue my previous SoC work.
# Multiple Page support it is a much wanted feature in the users community, but it is not that much exciting at all for me to implement...
# ICC Color Management for cairo outputs - Would allow Inkscape to produce CMYK PDFs and PSs with Cairo. That is an exciting feature and also a much resquested one. I've played a bit with icc in inkscape sometime ago. The only issue here is that we will probably depend on further developments in cairo API, right?
I was also thinking about implementing support for the animation features in SVG. Anyone interested in mentoring me? Last year I got a bit frustrated with my mentor because we haven't had too much interaction. I'd like to be mentored by someone who is often available on IRC and willing to interact in a daily basis. I feel much more productive when I have constant feedback on my work.
It would be good to see more detailed descriptions of the proposed ideas.
JucaBlues
On Wed, 2009-03-18 at 18:15 -0300, Felipe Sanches wrote:
# ICC Color Management for cairo outputs - Would allow Inkscape to produce CMYK PDFs and PSs with Cairo. That is an exciting feature and also a much resquested one. I've played a bit with icc in inkscape sometime ago. The only issue here is that we will probably depend on further developments in cairo API, right?
Apologies in advance for jumping in without doing my homework but is the Cairo project participating in GSOC this year? If yes, perhaps this could be a cross project collaboration.
Probably also worth looking at the OpenICC stuff http://freedesktop.org/wiki/OpenIcc/GoogleSoC2009
CMYK, PDFs and ICC colour management is one of the BIG ISSUES not just for inkscape but for lots of open source projects, so this is an important area to focus on.
If summer of code students could work directly with the other projects with relevant dependencies this would be very very productive.
++ from me :)
cheers Donna
On Wed, Mar 18, 2009 at 7:38 PM, Donna Benjamin <donna@...2553...> wrote:
On Wed, 2009-03-18 at 18:15 -0300, Felipe Sanches wrote:
# ICC Color Management for cairo outputs - Would allow Inkscape to produce CMYK PDFs and PSs with Cairo. That is an exciting feature and also a much resquested one. I've played a bit with icc in inkscape sometime ago. The only issue here is that we will probably depend on further developments in cairo API, right?
Apologies in advance for jumping in without doing my homework but is the Cairo project participating in GSOC this year? If yes, perhaps this could be a cross project collaboration.
Probably also worth looking at the OpenICC stuff http://freedesktop.org/wiki/OpenIcc/GoogleSoC2009
CMYK, PDFs and ICC colour management is one of the BIG ISSUES not just for inkscape but for lots of open source projects, so this is an important area to focus on.
If summer of code students could work directly with the other projects with relevant dependencies this would be very very productive.
++ from me :)
cheers Donna
it would be great if we had one student and mentor in Inkscape + one student and mentor in Cairo working on the same feature. These 4 people could then put some effort in the development of ICC, each one working on its own project and giving feedback to the other project.
Last year I had to interact often with cairo and pango guys because my project did depend on a new feature of these libs (userfonts). But they didnt seem to have clear deadlines for this feature. Even nowadays we still dont have userfonts feature integrated into libpango.
Having "sister SoC projects" could be a way of addressing this kind of issue.
JucaBlues
participants (4)
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bulia byak -
Donna Benjamin -
Felipe Sanches -
Joshua A. Andler