Summer of Code Project Ideas

The Inkscape team has posted a list of ideas for the Google Summer of Code project.

If you're a student and would like to have a summer job working on Inkscape for pay, this is a great opportunity! You can sign up send in your proposal through the Summer of Code site.

New Translators Mailing List

The Inkscape translators have started a new inkscape-translator@ mailing list. This list will be used for discussing translation/localization of Inkscape and its documentation.

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.

Une école d'arts graphiques utilise Inkscape

Newsforge a publié un article à propos d'un professeur d'arts graphiques qui a remplacé dans sa classe les programmes graphiques propriétaires par leurs alternatives open source. Au-delà de la simple réductions des coûts, cela eut aussi pour effet de valoriser les étudiants.

Une préoccupation soulevée fut que les étudiants n'apprenaient sur les outils des "standards de l'industrie". Cependant, qui peut prédire quels seront les standards de l'industrie dans 5 ou 10 ans ?