Many students enjoyed their work and continue to be involved perhaps your mentor will be a past GSoC student! We have a high rate of acceptance of student code into the core codebase. We've mentored about half a dozen students a year since GSoC started. Features to be developed are picked by Inkscape administrators from the pool of proposals submitted by applicants. You don't need to be a Computer Science student to apply. GSoC is a program where Google funds the development of specific features in open source software by university students and other new to open source. Finish times are flexible, 12 to 22 weeks (with agreement of mentor). Projects can be medium size (~175 hours) or large size (~350 hours). New this year! Google is opening up the program to new-comers to Open Source who are 18 years are older. 6 Successful SOC Projects from Previous Yearsįor quite a few years Inkscape has been successfully participating in Google Summer of Code.

Add Text and Image Support to Live Path Effect System 3.1 Suggested 'easy' bug fixes or improvements.

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