Exploring GIMP, Inkscape, Blender, and FreeCAD again on #GOSC #25 offers fresh perspectives.
Exploring GIMP, Inkscape, Blender, and FreeCAD again on #GOSC #25 offers fresh perspectives.
The Google Summer of Code 2025 initiatives are active this year. As expected over the past two decades, Google offers incentives to students who enhance free and open-source software. Aleksandr Prokudin contributed by compiling a comprehensive list of relevant projects for you. Explore upcoming offerings later this year: https://librearts.org/2025/05/gsoc-2025-...announced/. Visual elements include graphics from libreArts.org. Several established tools have benefited, such as GIMP, Inkscape, Krita, and OpenPrinting. For Graphite, it marks their second project involvement. GIMP will see a new GEGL filter browser developed by Gabriele Barbero. Ondřej Míchal aims to improve the plug-in/filter discovery process with a dedicated browser. SamIsTheFBI is launching an initial online registry for extensions, focusing on static content with dynamic features. Inkscape will receive real-time spell checking via Aarav Oswal’s work. Anunay enhances support for Adobe Illustrator native formats in Inkscape. Fatma Omara introduces a tool for easy artwork recoloring with live previews. Muhammad Rafay Irfan works on improving geometric intersection functions in lib2geom. For more details, visit the linked announcements.