[cairo] Cairo in Google Summer of Code

Bill Spitzak spitzak at thefoundry.co.uk
Tue Mar 18 11:53:36 PDT 2008


That's why I didn't try to edit the page because I figured these may not 
be appropriate. But I spent some time typing them in so I thought I'd 
dump them on this discussion list.

Gerdus van Zyl wrote:
> Is it just me or is most of the problems inappropriate for somebody
> like a SoC candidate that is just starting on the cairo code base?
> 
> All the sucessfull SoC projects I have seen were
> a) self contained unit - eg. something than does not touch too many
> existing code and can be written "seperately" and then integrated.
> (lookup-table-based rasterizer?)
> b) non controversial - this way the candidate does not fight a part of
> the community
> c) visible and fun - braggable results eg. I made cairo 20% faster!
> See this cool new thing people can do!


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