Hi,

I am Ruben Vermeersch, a Master in Computer Science student from Belgium. I would like to ask some advice before submitting a (potentially unfeasible) GSoC proposal.

As a photographer, my main use case for the GIMP is doing curves adjustments. Not having adjustment layers has never stopped me from using our beloved ?GIMP, but it has led to some annoyance. As such, I would like to help out in speeding up the implementation of adjustment layers.

As I would rather not submit a proposal that's impossible given the proposed timeframe, I would like to ask the GIMP developers (which have a better view on this), if there is a task I could propose, which would lead to a faster implementation of adjustment layers. Also, is anyone willing to mentor this?

A GSoC would free me from the proverbial "burger flipping", no better way to do it than to help implementing a much requested feature in the GIMP.

Kind regards,
Ruben Vermeersch

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Ruben Vermeersch (rubenv)
http://www.savanne.be

On Sat, 2008-03-22 at 15:53 -0700, Bill Skaggs wrote:

Ruben Vermeersch wrote:

A GSoC would free me from the proverbial "burger flipping", no better way to do it than to help implementing a much requested feature in the GIMP.

Maybe you were trying to make a joke, but this line does not suggest a very high level of enthusiasm. Since one of the main things we are trying to avoid is to pick people who will get started and then quit in the middle because it's too hard to do this kind of work during the summer, this makes it hard to pay attention to the rest of the message.

This was indeed a joke, but probably one that doesn't translate well from Dutch to English (I am not a native speaker). My apologies for giving you the impression I am not, I absolutely didn't intend to sound this way.

The GNOME community (and all the cool things happening in the 2.4 days) was one the main reasons why I started my studies in computer science. Having the chance to do this for a longer period of time, rather than just the few spare moments university and summer employment leave me, is a dream. I planned on participating last year, but I was selected for a summer internship.

I have been working on GNOME projects for a few years now, in the beginning these were small thing here and there. The last two years, I have been contributing actively on banshee and f-spot. Before that, I have been writing web applications since 1999. Working on the GIMP would allow me to combine my passion for photography and programming.

The purpose of my mail is to find out if there is a feasible task (hard, but doable given the time-frame) that would ultimately make the GIMP even more usable for photographers. I do not want to submit a task I cannot complete, hence I prefer to ask those who have a better view on this first.

Cheers,
Ruben

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Ruben Vermeersch (rubenv)
http://www.savanne.be