Inkscape's Hackfest goes to Kiel, Germany, in September

1. srpna 2018 16:45

Traditionally, the Inkscape project organizes an annual hackfest for developers to meet and tackle organizational issues and hard programming problems that require the expertise of multiple people.

This year, as Inkscape developers have decided to call the next major Inkscape version the much-anticipated magical version 1.0, the community has decided to hold a second hackfest (after the successful one in Boston), for working towards making the internally refactored Inkscape shine for the next big, feature-packed release (sneak peek here).

They are going to meet up in the Kieler Innovations- und Technologiezentrum startup center (Kitz) in Kiel, a town by the Baltic Sea in Germany. Core developers and community members are planning for 5 days of thorough testing, vigorous bug-squashing and improvement of documentation, translations, text features and the extension API, from September 9th to 13th, during Digitale Woche Kiel and right before Kieler Open Source und Linux Tage.

As a user, being a part of the world-wide Inkscape community, you can contribute to the development of your favorite vector editor, too! Support Inkscape by donating to the Hackfest fund, so the Hackfest attendees' travel expenses can be covered.

If you happen to be near Kiel in September, you're welcome to drop by and say hello! If this isn't possible for you, don't fear! We are planning to keep you updated by posting videos to our Youtube channel.