Special:Badtitle/NS102:Scribus Times and Gazette/Scribus Team's Google Summer of Code 2011 Students and Projects announced

We are happy to announce that Google is funding two Summer of Code 2011 projects that will be mentored by the Scribus Team. We had received four proposals from prospective student participants and were allotted two project slots by Google. Scribus team members discussed and scored the projects as well as communicated with the students for several weeks. In the end the two student proposals that gathered the highest scores were the proposal to rewrite table support in Scribus by Elvis Stansvik and the proposal to complete the Scripter2 scripting engine and make it the default in Scribus by Jain Basil Aliyas. We are sad that it was not possible to get the excellent Undo/Redo system rewrite proposal by Naveen Agarwal and an interesting interface cleanup proposal by Kyle Marek funded. However, we had to carefully weigh the requests of our users and the displayed capabilities of the students as well as the mentoring capacity of the Scribus Team to choose which two projects would proceed. We wish our GSoC 2011 student coders and their mentors a productive and fun summer and hope to be able to have the new functionality available for the Scribus users of our 1.5.0svn branch this fall. We also thank all the students who sent us their proposals and hope that they will choose to continue contributing to the Open Source Software development by enhancing Scribus - the one and only Free Software community developed desktop publishing software.

Best wishes,

Scribus Team