Jon Cruz just committed the graphical GTKMM-based Layer Dialog! This is amazing and now opens up Inkscape even further to everyone used to using this type of system for laying out graphics. Check out Inkscape, an open source drawing program. This and so many more features are available in the upcoming 0.44. I haven’t had much time to work on Inkscape…I think my main contribution to this release is updating the Creative Commons licenses to 2.5 
Not that much, but I will definitely be putting the full court press on for the press releases on Inkscape for this release. Maybe I can write a feature story for a major magazine on Inkscape 0.44. Anyone interested in me doing this?
I wrote a feature article on Creative Commons, Open Source and the Creative Commons Developer Community for Linux Format UK which comes out June 1. The best news about this is they are licensing the article under CC BY-NC which will allows it to be used all over the world to help explain Creative Commons licensing.
I’m now in China for the next month and my productivity has already boosted by about 200%. At the end of every semester of teaching/school I have to just get out of town and get onto my Open Source projects, writing, and reading. I have a solid location in China so that is great for the ole productivity and mental, spiritual, and physical health.
enjoy your time in china, you do, do you?
Cool, I am in Guangzhou right now pretty much until June 14. Lets get together soon! We can have a nice meet up! What are you up to? It would be great to meet up with you and other people who are into open source, art, creative commons, free culture, etc…
This is awesome news! A new excuse to svn up my copy of Inkscape.
Also, feel free to add me to your link list, I decided to start blogging again yesturday.
Yes, this is totally amazing. There is so much in the upcoming release. Color palette, support for ICC/littlecms, layers palette, masks, clipping paths, node sculpting and so much more. Oh, and PDF export just got committed as well!
Cool on your blog…I am redoing my site in 100% wordpress, and will add you shortly. Cool!