Just re-posting from my subscribed alias.
> On Fri, Nov 15, 2013 19:08 GMT Jon Nordby wrote: > > >On 8 November 2013 02:10, Mario Behling <[email protected]> > wrote: > >> Hello, > >> > >> I would like to follow up on getting GSoC students > to LGM. The idea > >> is, that we ask Google to support travel to get > students and mentors > >> to the event. > > > >Hi Mario, > >thanks for following up! > > > >> On Google Melange I identified the following > graphics projects, that > >> participated in GSoC this year. Did I miss any? > Please let me know. > > > >I forwarded your email to gimp-developer now, hopefully > that brings > >them on board. > > > >I also had a look through the list at Melange, and found > these > >projects possibly interesting: > >* OpenCV http://www.google-melange.com/gsoc/org/google/gsoc2013/opencv > >* Processing > >http://www.google-melange.com/gsoc/org/google/gsoc2013/processing > >* R project http://www.google-melange.com/gsoc/org/google/gsoc2013/rproject > >* Crystal Space > >http://www.google-melange.com/gsoc/org/google/gsoc2013/crystalspace > >* Inclusive Design Institute > >http://www.google-melange.com/gsoc/org/google/gsoc2013/idi_idrc > >and maybe > >* BRL-CAD http://www.google-melange.com/gsoc/org/google/gsoc2013/brlcad > >* Open Graph Drawing Fw. > >http://www.google-melange.com/gsoc/org/google/gsoc2013/ogdf > >* LibreOffice > >http://www.google-melange.com/gsoc/org/google/gsoc2013/libreoffice > >* WikiMedia http://www.google-melange.com/gsoc/org/google/gsoc2013/wikimedia > > Good luck to that. > > I can't say about the others, but the R project people > aren't all that interested in > graphics. R relies on cairo to do GUI display and > jpeg/pdf/etc file generation, yes, > but from personal experience, asking them to use up-to-date > cairo/freetype for their > statically-linked official windows and Mac OS X binaries had > been a long and tiring failure. > The last time I checked, they were still using a cairo 2-3 > years old for the > official window and Mac OS X binaries and happy with it. (I > encountered > a specific bug, with R code to demonstrate, worked with > freetype > to get a fix, and told them the minimum versions to use). > > Their extent of and scope of interests in quality graphics > is probably similar > to GNU Octave's, if you are more familiar with Octave (or > Mathematica/Maple) > and for similar enough reasons. > > Some of the projects may have only some graphing/plotting > functionalities but > probably may not care as much about rendering precision or > color correctness as some > more design/graphical-design oriented projects do... > > Hin-Tak > > > > > > _______________________________________________ CREATE mailing list [email protected] http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/create
