Ideas para el proyecto "Summer of Code"

El equipo de Inkscape ha escrito una lista de ideas para el proyecto de Google, "Summer of Code".

Si eres estudiante y te gustaria trabajar para Inkscape en verano y además cobrar por ello, ¡Ésta es una gran oportunidad! Puedes suscribirte enviando tus proposiciones a través de la web de "Summer of Code".

Nueva lista de correo para traductores

Los traductores de Inkscape han creado una nueva lista de correo para las traducciones. Esta lista será usada para discutir sobre las traducciones y localizaciones de Inkscape y su documentación.

Planning for Inkscape 0.44 Release

The Inkscape team has started the process of producing the next release. It is expected that it will take us a month or two to work through the process, which means that you can expect 0.44 to be officially released in the early summer.

Here are the milestones to look for in our release process:

    Now      - Development continues on the ~24 items identified
               For non-0.44 feature work, please use branches
 
    May 1st  - Achieve completion of at least 50% of the items.
               Work continues on the remaining 12.
               Work ceases on any other features.
               Notification to translators
               Begin focusing on bugfixes.
               Identify preliminary "must-fix" buglist
 
    May 15th - Feature Freeze
               All feature development work ends
               Finalize the "must-fix" buglist
               Issue pre-release packages for testing
               Focus on bug fixes, translations, & docs
 
    TBD      - Hard Freeze
               Translation work finishes
               Final resolution on all "must-fix" bugs
               Issue one or more release candidates
 
    TBD      - 0.44 Release                 

If you have some time to contribute to Inkscape, you would be more than welcome to join in the making of this release. There are many places you can lend a hand: Certain new features still need some development work. If you good at breaking software, you can be a big help by experimenting with each of the features listed in the 0.44 Release Notes. See if you can find and report defects.

Translation (and updates) to documentation are also very important, so please see our Translation Information and our Tutorials And Help pages.

If you are interested in packaging or providing a mirror of our download areas, these are also excellent ways to help. The Win32 and OSX packages are the most active; please join the discussions on the inkscape-devel mailing list

Icons with Inkscape

Dmitri Joukov has written a blog post about using Inkscape for creating Icons.

Graphics Art School uses Inkscape

Newsforge is running an article about a graphics art professor that switched his class over from proprietary to open source graphics programs. Beyond just reducing lab fees, this also had the effect of really empowering the students.

One concern raised was that the students were not learning "industry standard" tools. Yet who can say what the industry standard might be in 5 or 10 years?