Hi,

I'm a 4th year undergraduate student studying Imaging Science and Computer Science at the Rochester Institute of Technology in Rochester, New York (USA). I use Inkscape all the time to make icons for my programs. I know that Inkscape participated in Google's Summer of Code program last year, and I'm hoping that you will participate again this year. I am very interested in adding some traditional image processing features such as cropping, filters, and lookup tables into Inkscape. These would mostly be for raster images, but they could also be adapted for vectors (along the lines of the Gaussian blur project that was done last year).

I am mostly posting this just to make contact with someone at Inkscape, but I also have a question: if I do SoC this summer and I work for Inkscape, where would my mentor be located? Would you suggest meeting the mentor in person, or would we do all of our communications through phone and email?

Thanks,

Juliet

Hi Juliet,
As long as they run it and we make the project list again I think its a pretty safe bet we'll eb involved. We've been in on the last 2 years and have benefitted greatly from them. We actually had people doing svg filters and some image processing via imagemagik as SoC projects this year, so some of what your suggesting may have already been done. you can do crop via clip paths quite easily too.
The location of mentors is determine by what the project is, we pick teh dev who's best suited in skills to supporting the project in question, so that means they could be pretty much anywhere, although most of the devs are US, with a few in europe. dont know of any offhand that are further afield than that. Most communication is done via email and jabber chat I believe, not sure how much phone conversation/actual meetings has taken place, would be something to discuss with the mentor if you got selected I guess.

Cheers

Sim