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Following announcement about our participation at Google Summer of Code 2009 we declare that we are beginning to wrap up to release long anticipated 0.47 version of Inkscape. Here is the current plan Chill phase (in progress). Development
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focuses on wrapping up with no further refactoring. We identify 'make distcheck' issues, triage bug reports, run an About Screen contest (more on that soon) and create a draft of Release Notes, then update tutorials and other docs. Frost phase (May 1, 2009). Most development is complete. Release Notes should be >90% filled in. Bug Hunt: 500 points. We also post inkscape-0.47-alpha.tar.gz Feature Freeze (May 15, 2009). There will be no further development work and all features that can't be finished in time will be disabled. We focus on critical bug fixing, finalize all tutorials, docs, etc., we finalize all extensions. Translators do their work too. Inkscape must pass 'make distcheck'. We upload inkscape-0.47-beta.tar.gz Hard freeze (May 25, 2009). Only release wardens can commit to mainline. We focus on release-critical bug fixing, finish translations, release notes etc. Packagers test creating pkgs of the -beta release. We upload inkscape-0.47-rc1.tar.gz Branch (June 5, 2009). We establish the stable branch for release and complete any late-late-late work, also do final verification of packaging, release notes, docs, etc. and publish more release candidates until it's ready for releasing. We also plan 0.47.1+ release(s), if it's required. Release. We upload inkscape-0.47.tar.gz and builds for various systems on June 15, 2009 and post official announcements. Any help much appreciated! [Less]
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8 months
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Today approved Google Summer of Code 2009 projects were announced, and we have five projects: Felipe Sanches will work on ICC/CMYK workflow, mentored by Jon Cruz; Soren Berg will create scriptable API, mentored by Ted Gould; Krzysztof
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Kosiński will implement multiple path editing in the Node tool, mentored by bulia byak; Arcadie Cracan will improve our somewhat forgotten Connector tool, mentored by Michael Wybrow; Marco Cecchetti will further develop lib2geom, mentored by Nathan Hurst. That makes three new and two returned students. We wish our students and mentors an amazing summer! [Less]
Posted
8 months
ago
Following announcement about our participation at Google Summer of Code 2009 we declare that we are beginning to wrap up to release long anticipated 0.47 version of Inkscape. Here is the current plan Chill phase (in progress). Development
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focuses on wrapping up with no further refactoring. We identify 'make distcheck' issues, triage bug reports, run an About Screen contest (more on that soon) and create a draft of Release Notes, then update tutorials and other docs. Frost phase (May 1, 2009). Most development is complete. Release Notes should be >90% filled in. Bug Hunt: 500 points. We also post inkscape-0.47-alpha.tar.gz Feature Freeze (May 15, 2009). There will be no further development work and all features that can't be finished in time will be disabled. We focus on critical bug fixing, finalize all tutorials, docs, etc., we finalize all extensions. Translators do their work too. Inkscape must pass 'make distcheck'. We upload inkscape-0.47-beta.tar.gz Hard freeze (May 25, 2009). Only release wardens can commit to mainline. We focus on release-critical bug fixing, finish translations, release notes etc. Packagers test creating pkgs of the -beta release. We upload inkscape-0.47-rc1.tar.gz Branch (June 5, 2009). We establish the stable branch for release and complete any late-late-late work, also do final verification of packaging, release notes, docs, etc. and publish more release candidates until it's ready for releasing. We also plan 0.47.1 release(s), if it's required. Release. We upload inkscape-0.47.tar.gz and builds for various systems on June 15, 2009 and post official announcements. Any help much appreciated! [Less]
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8 months
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Recently Hannes Hochreiner released the first stable version of JessyInk — a JavaScript that can be incorporated into an Inkscape SVG image containing several layers to create a presentation. Each layer will be converted into one slide of a
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presentation. With features like slide transition effects, index sheet, master slide and autotext like slide title, slide number and number of slide it makes a perfect excuse to use your favourite browser instead of any of the heavier packages like OpenOffice.org Impress or MS PowerPoint. Some fixes in Inkscape source code were done by Ted Gould to specifically adress issues reported by Hannes. You can also watch a screencast by heathenx that demonstrates use of JessyInk. [Less]
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8 months
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The 7th international conference on Scalable Vector Graphics will take place from October 2-4, 2009, in Mountain View, California, hosted by Google at the Crittenden Campus. At this conference you can learn about subjects varying from specialized
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technical visualizations to interactive multimedia art. The program includes presentations, beginner and advanced level workshops. And of course you will have the ultimate opportunity to meet people from the SVG community, industry and the W3C SVG Working Group. The organizing committee is looking for contributors presenting a paper or teaching a course. Presenters are asked to submit an extended abstract in English with an approximate length of 400 to 800 words by May 15 to svgopen.org. The abstracts are reviewed by a reviewing committee and presenters will be informed about acceptance on or before June 26. If your abstract is accepted, you will be asked to submit your full paper by August 31, according to instructions that will be sent to you. Accepted abstracts, papers and presentations will be published in web proceedings. The list of potential presentation and course topics is published at SVG Open website. However organizers are still investigating a venue for holding workshops and courses. Potential course instructors are asked to submit a course outline by May 15. The outlines will be reviewed by a committee and instructors will be informed about acceptance on or before June 26. All Inkscape users and contributors are welcome to attend! [Less]
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9 months
ago
Yesterday the list of accepted mentoring organizations for Google Summer of Code 2009 was published, and we are chosen again. So if you think that you could do a great project for Inkscape this summer, please read the list of ideas so far, then join
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our developer mailing list and tell us about yourself and your ideas. Student applications open on March 23, 2009 and close on April 3, 2009. This year there will be less projects than before, so make sure you write a really excellent proposal. We will help you with that. [Less]
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10 months
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The Libre Graphics Meeting (LGM) is an annual workshop for developers and users of free software graphics applications to collaborate and advance the cause of high-quality free graphics software. From now until April 22, you can help support this
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event by making a donation to the LGM 2009 community pledge drive. LGM is free to attend, so your support is critical to making this important event a success. The fourth annual LGM will be held May 6–9, 2009 in Montreal, Canada at École Polytechnique. Donations will be used solely to help cover travel costs for volunteer developers and presenters. Last year’s campaign raised more than $12,000 dollars from individuals and corporations in the community. As with last year, pledges can be made online at Pledgie.com. Visit http://pledgie.com/campaigns/2926 to make your contribution. All donations are tax deductible for US taxpayers. Large donations from corporations and individuals may go through the Pledgie campaign or contact LGM directly at lgm=@=gnome.org in order to coordinate. About Libre Graphics Meeting For four years, the Libre Graphics Meeting has been the premiere conference for developers, users and supporters of free software graphics applications. Developers from projects such as GIMP, Inkscape, Blender, Krita, Scribus, Hugin, the Open Clipart Library, and the Open Font Library gather to work on interoperability, shared standards, and new ideas. Work at prior LGMs has pushed the state of the art in important areas such as color management, cross-application sharing of brushes and other assets, and common formats. The face-to-face meetings and opportunities for collaboration are important to developers, but LGM offers plenty for end users as well. Tutorials, talks, and birds-of-a-feather (BOF) meetings to help free software users get the most out of their applications fill out the LGM schedule, and demonstrations from artists showcase what is possible. For more information, visit http://www.libregraphicsmeeting.org [Less]
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10 months
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Our long time contributor Cédric Gémy just has his first book on Inkscape published. It is written in French and called "Inkscape efficace : Réussir ses dessins vectoriels". It is Cédric's second book after the commercially successful "GIMP
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Efficace". The book is quite good for beginners, because first 120 pages describe basic tools, color and transformations. The other part of the book is aimed rather at professional users and thoroughly describes how to be more efficient with Inkscape, how to do print jobs and how to do web oriented SVG even if coding is needed. When possible, Cédric tried to give advice to Adobe Illustrator users. [Less]
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10 months
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Linux Fund has partnered with Inkscape developer Milosz Derezynski to improve the text tool by boosting rendering in font selector, providing numeric control over kerning and fixing several outstanding bugs. Milosz is already working actively on the project.
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10 months
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Those Inkscape users who tend to create complex drawings with a lot of blur know that the application easily becomes less reponsive. Recently our former GSoC student Jasper van der Gronde started working on support for OpenMP which is an API for
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programming applications that can make use of several CPU available in a system instead of just one. Jasper started with Gaussian blur which is by far most widely used SVG filter primitive. With OpenMP in use rendering speedup on a dual-core system is reported to be 40-50%. While Inkscape doesn't have a truly threaded design yet, such an improvement will definitely make the application a lot more useful. If you have experience of creating complex threaded applications and willing to help, don't hesitate to do so. Drop to inkscape-devel@ mailing list and let us know. [Less]
