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Participate: Summer of code

Straight from the inkscape website:

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.

I added the idea for implementing external linking and external styles support. This is a wall-breaker for geeks like me and should be a top priority for everyone looking to make me dance on my desk.

Actually this gives me an idea. Recently I bountied up Dom Lachowicz for implementing external styles in RSVG, more people should do this, its not payment .. its like giving a case of nice beer to the mate who helped you move house. Thanks so much Do rsvg 4lyf~!!

So my deal is this: I’ll email a photo of myself dancing on my desk, signed with the inkscape calligraphy pen saying thankyou for implementing xlinking and external CSS maniulation. On top of that, you get the summer of code cash-money and the love and respect of countless SVG lemmings like myself. Pretty sweet yeah ?

just do it !

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2 Responses to “Participate: Summer of code”

  1. Lion Kimbro Says:
    May 5th, 2006 at 2:23 am

    I’d really like to be able to intercept hyperlink follows.

    Instead of opening up a hyperlink to another SVG document in the web browser, I’d like to be able to cause it to open up in Inkscape.

    If I could do this, I believe I could implement a “wiki” entirely from Inkscape.

    It’d be like a giant maze of Inkscape SVG images, traversed from within Inkscape.

    People who visit just by the website, see the SVG images, and can follow the hyperlink network. To edit it, you start up Inkscape, and then enter the URL to open. As you follow links, it opens them up (for edit) in Inkscape.

    Write a plugin for reading and writing to a particular extension, and use that on the pages.

    Or something like that.

    This would be beyond cool.

  2. Pascal Klein Says:
    May 6th, 2006 at 2:07 am

    Collaborative real-time editing…? Being able to do something like what the Abiword folks did would be kick ass. I was hearing that the idea has been suggested before but not much after that…

    Cheers.

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