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Google Summer of Code - GSOC 2009

Saturday, 28. March 2009, 17:27:13

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Again a the Google Summer of Code is started. Here is an overview of interesting and accepted graphic applications, web development apps and multimedia tools:
* Aqsis Renderer http://wiki.aqsis.org/dev/soc_2009
* Audacity http://audacityteam.org/wiki/index.php?title=GSoC_Ideas
* Blender http://wiki.blender.org/index.php/Dev:Ref/GSoC/2009/Ideas
* FFmpeg http://wiki.multimedia.cx/index.php?title=FFmpeg_Summer_Of_Code_2009
* GIMP http://wiki.gimp.org/gimp/SummerOfCode2009ideas
* Gnome Desktop http://live.gnome.org/SummerOfCode2009/Ideas
* Hugin/ Panotools http://wiki.panotools.org/SoC_2009_idea
* Inkscape http://wiki.inkscape.org/wiki/index.php/Googles_Summer_Of_Code_2009
* OSM http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/GSoC_Applications_2009
* Python http://wiki.python.org/moin/SummerOfCode/2009
* Scribus http://wiki.scribus.net/index.php/GSoC_2009_Ideas
* TYPO3 CMS http://typo3.org/development/gsoc2009/ideas/

Hopefully a lot of ideas become reality and all these projects will get a lot of new, strong, powerful developers!

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Integrate Picasa with Ubuntu

Monday, 8. September 2008, 16:22:32

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You like to use Googles photo manager Picasa with Ubuntu? Then read the article "Integrate Picasa with Ubuntu" at Ubuntu Productivity for a nice workflow.

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GSoC Blender: Textured Area Lights

Tuesday, 22. July 2008, 19:56:43

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Yes! Yes! Yes! Textured area lights will come to Blender is really cool and will help so much creating cool indoor scenes. Thanks to Davide Vercelli (UncleZeiv) and his GSoC 2008 Lightcuts project!

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GSOC progresses

Monday, 7. July 2008, 09:16:22

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Wasja (Vasiliy Kirilichev) have posted screenies and a summery of his GSOC F-Spot project progress.
Lars-Peter Clausen has posted an interesting status report of the GSOC PyGimp which sounds great too.
GSOC projects for Scribus have their own mailing list, it seems their a little bit on hold.
The GSOC projects of Inkscape are still alive, take a look at their mailing list and watch out about posts from Maximilian Albert and Felipe Sanches.

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GSoC 2008 - thanx Google!

Wednesday, 23. April 2008, 18:58:04

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Here is a complete list of my GSoC 2008 favorites (hoping all these projects comes really true):
Audacity (5 projects)
Blender (6 projects)
FFMPEG (9 projects)
GIMP (5 projects)
Gnome (25 projects including Cheese & F-Spot)
Hugin/ Panotools (4 Projects)
Inkscape (5 Projects)
Python (35 projects)
Scribus (3 projects)
VLC (14 projects)
Wine (6 projects)

...what i'm missing are projects for Typo3 and gEdit

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Google Picasa 2.7 for Linux

Friday, 18. April 2008, 08:40:08

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The final version of the photo management software Picasa 2.7 for Linux is available. Now you can import images from your disk and publish them in the web. Besides this long awaited feature Picasa 2.7 for Linux offers:
* a better and faster import of images
* added support for the cameras Canon EOS 30D and Nikon D200
* support for Adobe DNG format
* bigger previews
* better search for camera details like ISO or focal values
Video support is still missing in the Linux version. Renember Picasa is not a native Linux application, its ported to Linux using the Winelib. You can download it for various distributions including Debian/ Ubuntu.

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Google Summer of Code 2008

Thursday, 20. March 2008, 22:02:11

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GSoC - Google Summer of Code 2008 is on! And of course many open source projects developed a lot of ideas. So if you are a student help them get it real and earn the money! Here are my favorites:

Audacity: http://audacityteam.org/wiki/index.php?title=GSoC_Ideas
Blender: http://wiki.blender.org/index.php/BlenderDev/GSOC_2008_Ideas
Eclipse: http://wiki.eclipse.org/Google_Summer_of_Code_2008_Ideas
FFmpeg: http://wiki.multimedia.cx/index.php?title=FFmpeg_Summer_Of_Code_2008
Gimp: http://wiki.gimp.org/gimp/SummerOfCode2008ideas
Gnome: http://live.gnome.org/SummerOfCode2008/Ideas
Gstreamer: http://gstreamer.freedesktop.org/wiki/TaskList
Inkscape: http://wiki.inkscape.org/wiki/index.php/Googles_Summer_Of_Code_2008
Python: http://wiki.python.org/moin/SummerOfCode
Samba: http://wiki.samba.org/index.php/SoC/Ideas
Scribus: http://wiki.scribus.net/index.php/GsoC_2008_Ideas

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Google Summer of Code Project's

Monday, 16. April 2007, 16:14:28

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The Winner are:
Aqusis - http://code.google.com/soc/aqsis/about.html

Blender - http://code.google.com/soc/blender/about.html

K3D - http://code.google.com/soc/k3d/about.html

Inkscape - http://code.google.com/soc/inkscape/about.html

Scribus - http://wiki.scribus.net/index.php/SoC2007_ideas

Drupal - http://code.google.com/soc/drupal/about.html

Wordpress - http://code.google.com/soc/wordpress/about.html

Joomla - http://code.google.com/soc/joomla/about.html

...and a lot more!

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Google Summer of Code 2007

Monday, 19. February 2007, 11:09:10

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Google Summer of Code 2007 is on! Hopefully a lot fine features get's its way into the graphic apps :smile:.

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