Hello, I intend to join this year's GSoC as a student for GIMP. I'm Jerson Perpetua, a BS Computer Science student from the University of the Philippines Mindanao, Philippines. I am an experienced C/C++ developer, working for software ranging from school projects to small to mid-sized business applications. Additionally, I am fluent in object-oriented languages like C++ (as previously mentioned) and Java. Though I have little experience with GTK+ & GLib, I am confident that I can learn as I develop. This last bit springs from my passion in Free Software and programming in general. I am quite resourceful and can work with the least amount of supervision. Also, if ever I get accepted, I will be working full-time for this project as I have no other commitments this summer. Being quite a bit of a graphics enthusiast myself, I am interested in the unique fusion of art and technology. I have been a long-time GIMP user and wanted to contribute code-wise (in fact, I have used GIMP as a free-lance web graphics artist). My interests are in the field of 3D graphics (OpenGL, GPGPU, etc.), 2D graphics and interface usability. I have prepared for this year's GSoC by learning the required technologies (OpenGL, GTK+, GObject, etc.) and reading GIMP and GEGL's source codes. I fully intend to participate in the Free Software movement by contributing code. This is a good opportunity for me to get started and to familiarize myself with the internal workings of GIMP. Also, to be frank, the stipend will be of much help as I prepare for an independent life ahead doing free-lance Free Software development. I have read your ideas list and have gotten a couple of topics from there that I am quite interested at (+ a blue-sky one): * Beginnings of a node-based compositor for GIMP * OpenGL GPU resampling in GEGL * Improved Foreground Selection Tool I know that most of these are pretty ambitious considering my qualifications, but I've been meaning to acquire the skills to implement them and GSoC seems like the perfect opportunity! I will be idling at your IRC channel later to ask for your advice and to discuss the gory details. My IRC nick is Daerd (pronounced like the 'tard' in 'retard' :-). Thank you. (Oh, BTW, my native language is Filipino but I can speak and write English quite fluently. Also, I have manually formatted this message to accommodate for the common horizontal width of most posts in this mailing list. Is this at all necessary?) Best Wishes, Daerd jersonperpetua at gmail dot com _______________________________________________ Gimp-developer mailing list Gimp-developer@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU/mailman/listinfo/gimp-developer
