Monday, 16 April 2007 03:35 GMT The Google Summer of Code projects have been announced and like always there are tons of great open source projects that will get a boost from this great program. Even though openclipart.org does not have a directly linked participant, there are a few projects that will benefit users and contributors of openclipart.org.

1. Importing from, and Exporting to, a remote ccHost instance
   The project is a implementation of a new feature in Inkscape, integrating this software with the Open Clip Art Library. It will allow Inkscape's users to publish their work to OCAL in an automated fashion and also import pictures from it, by merely pressing a key sequence.
   - From the google summer of code website (link) Im sure that the implementation of this feature will make a lot of people's lives a lot easier.
2. Openoffice.org SVG import
   SVG is a language that describes 2D graphics in an XML style language. Onle of the major implementations of this is an external SVG import filter. Unfortunately, this filter has strong dependencies on both Java and the Apache batik SVG Engine, making it very difficult to incorporate within OpenOffice.org directly.

   The goal of this project is to incorporate an SVG import filter into OpenOffice.org that does not require any additional dependencies. This parser will be able to read SVG files and parse out its information.
   - From the google summer of code website (link) The ability to be able to import SVG straight into your documents is another feature that i know a lot of openclipart users have wanted for a long time.