Dev:GoogleSoC/ApplicationForm

Ideas

• Create a new animation to showcase synfig's capabilities
• Implement the infamous 2000% speed-up
• Completely fix all issues found by valgrind
• SVG, MNG, etc import and or export
• Redraw tool suggested by snapsilverlight
• UI revamp - see UI Reloaded
• Add i18n infrastructure so synfig/studio can be translated

Potential mentors

• darco, synfig author: optimisation
• rabecha, ex voria artist: new animation
• dev team: anything else

Draft application

Please improve this, we have until March 12th. Questions from http://code.google.com/soc/org_signup.html

About Your Organization

• What is your Organization's Name?
  • Synfig Animation Studio project team
• What is your Organization's Homepage?
  • http://www.synfig.com
• Describe your organization.
  • We are a bunch of people interested in making Synfig better.
• Why is your organization applying to participate in GSoC 2007? What do you hope to gain by participating?
  • We hope that more people will get interested in helping out on the synfig.
• Did your organization participate in GSoC 2005 or 2006? If so, please summarize your involvement and the sucesses and failures of your student projects. (optional)
  • No
• If your organization has not previously participated in GSoC, have you applied in the past? If so, for what year(s)? (optional)
  • No, however we have had lots of people suggest that we participate.
• What license does your project use?
  • GNU GPL v2 or later.
• URL for your ideas page
  • http://wiki.synfig.com/GoogleSoC
• What is the main development mailing list for your organization?
  • http://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/synfig-devl
• Where is the main IRC channel for your organization?
  • #synfig on irc.freenode.net
• Does your organization have an application template you would like to see students use? If so, please provide it now. (optional)
  • No
• Who will be your backup organization administrator? Please enter their Google Account address. We will email them to confirm, your organization will not become active until they respond. (optional)
  • None as yet

About Your Mentors

• What criteria did you use to select these individuals as mentors? Please be as specific as possible.
  • Unsure yet
• Who will your mentors be? Please enter their Google Account address separated by commas. If your organization is accepted we will email each mentor to invite them to take part. (optional)
  • Unsure yet

About The Program

• What is your plan for dealing with disappearing students?
  • Unsure yet
• What is your plan for dealing with disappearing mentors?
  • Unsure yet
• What steps will you take to encourage students to interact with your project's community before, during and after the program?
  • Unsure yet
• What will you do to ensure that your accepted students stick with the project after GSoC concludes?
  • Unsure yet