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Google Summer of Code 2009

February 25, 2009 - 11:34 — schumaml

Google Summer of Code ist a program sponsored by Google that does enable students to work for Open Source projects. GIMP did participate in 2006 and 2008, the results are listed on our Summer of Code wiki page.

We intend to participate again this year, and are currently collecting possible projects at our GSoC 2009 ideas wiki page.

If you think that you might have a possible project, then please go to the IRC channel #gimp on irc.gimp.org and/or the gimp-developer mailing list and present it there. IRC is good for the quick "could this be a project at all" checks, the mailing list is good if you've already got some kind of plan and want to discuss it in detail.

If you would like to mentor any projects, please announce this on the gimp-developer list and/or IRC. And please do reply to any mails sent to you.

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March 12, 2009 - 13:41 — Anonymous

All these projects that

All these projects that participate on SOCs gain a lot of experience. Why not join together a put up a site reporting your experiences with SOC so that others can learn from you. It just a pity to lose all that…
Best regards, Kraig
February 26, 2009 - 02:35 — Anonymous

Don't know how to contact anyone in the know for a request.

Tried the links but either not working, or the website is not complete yet. I do have a request if anyone can help. I would like to have the ability to wrap a brush from the left side of the screen to the right and up/down of course. This would make creating tileable textures childs play. Right now, I have to copy the target object to the center of the screen and do an offset x/2, y/2 then same center opject do an offset x/2 and then same object do an offset y/2 and merge the result (and add additional filler as needed). Tedious for sure. Hope the right person sees this message. :)

February 25, 2009 - 15:18 — PhotoComiX

Google Summer of Code 2009

I cannot add any project there because i can't help to implement it.

But i hope a comment is allowed

I think that to be suitable for professional use Gimp will really need a MACRO RECORDER (i.e something as PS actions recorder)...may be a very interesting SOC project

there is no match in speed, efforts and usability between record a routine and write the correspondent code.
(and anyway average users are not able to write code )

That to me is much more relevant then 16 bit, cmyk ,pdf support and alike

February 25, 2009 - 16:53 — schumaml

It looks like this year's

It looks like this year's SoC might be very heavy on the GEGL side - and this is good.

Regarding macro recording:

If all of the changes to an image are a modeled by a graph of instructions, then you have sovled most recording needs already. See the examples at http://www.gegl.org/gallery/index.html, the exact same XML can be applied to any image

In GIMP SVN, the projection - what you actually seen in an image window - can optionally be done with GEGL. The color tools can be made to use GEGL as well. This does still not expose the graph to the user in any way, though...

I won't be surprised if 75% or more of our projects this year will be GEGL-related.

April 8, 2009 - 06:32 — Anonymous

Recording Actions

I looked at the code at the above link and it seems pretty straight forward, for the example images. However, I am at a total loss as to how I can implement a set of instructions, such as: go to a folder open first image, duplicate image, select previous image, close image; select new image, change size of image (to set parameters), embed watermark; save image, close image, open next image.......,
I went to the GEGL page and explored the information, and unfortunately it seems a little bit over my head. the XML stuff I understand but the API and how to get the "ijnstuction graphs to work is a bit puzzling.
I have not upgraded from Photoshop 7 (Mac OS X) and I am trying to phase myself into Linux (Ubuntu Studio 8.04 64 bit) The lack of a recordable action function in Gimp is one of the stumbling blocks.
best regards,
Vilppu

February 27, 2009 - 16:14 — PhotoComiX

Google Summer of Code 2009

What a good new.!..i had a look to the link..excellent from what i could understand that really may solve most of recording needs.

then you do not think that a practical implementation available for Gimp end users will be a quite interesting SOC project?

At least for developers that have skills and will to participate but that can not image a more useful/interesting project ?