Re: [Gimp-developer] GSoC/Outreachy 2016

[Tobias Jakobs <tobias jakobs gmail com>]

Hello Romaissa,

I'm not a Gimp developer. But one thing you could try is to ask the
Gnome Photo developer. They use GEGL too. Perhaps they need help.

Regards,
Tobias

2016-03-04 16:09 GMT+01:00 Romaissa Kitouni <k romaissa gmail com>:
> Greetings!
>
> I am a student from Constantine 2 university, Algeria. I have been a
> Gimp user for nearly ten years, and I got interested, more recently, in
> its development and more generally in open source work. After
> successfully building gimp, I have been going through the code and
> trying to solve some issues, though I can't say I am very successful
> for the time being, as it takes some time for me to understand both the
> object system and the transformation algorithms.
>
> As it is already this time of the year, I have taken a look at
> organizations for Google Summer of Code or Outreachy programs, and it
> seems Gimp isn't a part of it this year.
>
> My question is: would it be acceptable to submit a proposal to work on
> gimp through another related organization (like Gnome project?). If
> yes, which ones? I am aware there has to be mentors available for each
> project, so I thought asking directly would be better.
>
> As I have been lurking in the community for some weeks, it seemed to me
> that the main needs right now are the porting of Gimp
> filters/operations to GEGL, and solving some usability issues. More
> generally, I went through this page a few times http://wiki.gimp.org/wi
> ki/Hacking:GSoC/Future/Ideas, and I would be very grateful to have the
> input of more experimented developers on which ideas are the more
> relevant right now to work on (not necessarily in an internship
> program). Any kind of advices would be greatly appreciated!
>
> Thanks in advance for your inputs!
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