rejon.org is Jon Phillips.

I’m not giving preferential treatment to anybody, and, I’m not the only one selecting my intern. So, make those application bulletproof. Anyway, please apply if you want to come work with CC (and me) this summer:

That’s right! Students, get your applications in before the end of the day on March 1 (which means PST for us in San Francisco reviewing applications).

As we announced before, we are picking one intern to help our tech team and another to help us with creating media and building up our community. If you want to spend the summer building the commons, living in San Francisco, and generally plugging into one of the most dynamic social networks offline in SF and on-line on the web, then please apply.

For both internships, there are several projects to work on. A good place to look is at our Labs demo/test site and Developer Challenges to get your heart beating faster. Then, for Media+Community internships, there will be some great work on some media-based (part-technical) projects like OLPC and FreeCulture.org.

As I blogged on the CC blog last week, tomorrow night is the first CC Salon of the new year at Shinesf.com from 7-9 PM. Joi Ito blogged it and I’m going to re-sample my original post:

Please join us for the first CC Salon of 2007 at ShineSF.com on Wednesday, February 21, from 7-9 PM in San Francisco. It will be major! And, yes, please note, we are not doing this event monthly now, but every other month to maximize the impact in SF!

The line-up for the evening:

• John Wilbanks, Executive Director, Science Commons
• Joi Ito, Web Entrepreneur, Chairman of Creative Commons Board
• Heather Ford, Executive Director, iCommons
• Jim Sowers, Calabash Music and National Geographic, Musical Guest, Discussing state of Digital Music and DJ’ing

Details

The event is free and open to the public. Quick presentations begin at 7 PM and go until 9 PM, but if you’d like to have an informal meeting or get a good seat, get there a bit early (We open the doors at 6 PM). So don’t worry if you’re late; there will be stuff happening all night at Shine, 1337 Mission Street between 9th and 10th Streets. Shine has free wi-fi and a super cool Flickr photo booth. Note: Since Shine is a bar, CC Salon is only open to people who are 21 and older.

Also, plug this event into your digital life on our upcoming.org posting.

About

CC Salon is a free, casual monthly get-together focused on conversation, presentations, and performances from people or groups who are developing projects that relate to open content and/or software. Please invite your friends, colleagues, and anyone you know who might be interested in drinks and discussion. There are now CC Salons happening in San Francisco, Toronto, Berlin, Beijing, Warsaw, Seoul, Brisbane, and Johannesburg. Read about the first Jo’burg salon on iCommons.org.

Heya all, Inkscape 0.45 is out in the wild. Bryce and I sent out PR. The great thing about Bryce is that he is the master of planning. He helped to reshape Inkscape’s roadmap so we can get to 0.50 with SVG Mobile compliance and full Inkscape 1.0 with SVG 1.1 compliance. Need I say, the more contributors we get, the faster we will get there.

Would anyone out there like to help out with Inkscape by either funding development or with steps to getting involved in Inkscape? I can connect funding with developers and am eager to do so to accelerate Inkscape towards > 1.0 version numbers.

Check out the release notes and the press release:

Jon Phillips
Inkscape Announces 0.45 Release :: http://www.inkscape.org :: Draw Freely.
Draw Freely: Inkscape Announces 0.45 Release

February 5, 2007 - The Inkscape community today announced the newest
version of its cross-platform open source vector graphic drawing software,
Inkscape. Inkscape 0.45 features a new Gaussian Blur SVG filter.
Sponsored by Google’s Summer of Code program, Gaussian Blur allows you
to softly and naturally blur any Inkscape objects, including shapes,
text, and images. This enables a wide range of photorealistic effects:
arbitrarily shaped shades and lights, depth of field, drop shadows,
glows, etc. Also, blurred objects can be used as masks for other objects
to achieve the “feathered mask” effect.

Numerous other new features, enhancements to existing features, and bug
fixes have been included. A history dialog allows you to browse your
change history. Many new extension effects are added including Pattern
along Path and Color Effects. There are performance improvements to
rendering speed, on the order of 2-3% in general, and up to 5-10% for
drawings using heavy transparency and/or radial gradients. Compositing
quality is also improved through the removal of banding seen in gradients.

The Inkscape community invites anyone to contribute to the project. The
project is now working on the upcoming 0.46 release which will focus
on the initial stages of adding SVG animation support, increasing the
apps PDF functionality, and other refactoring tasks. On a global scale,
Inkscape is pushing for version 0.50 to have full compatibility with
SVG Mobile/Tiny. Then, the ultimate large goal is to get to Inkscape
1.0 which will be a fully W3C SVG 1.1 compliant application. The more
help the project receives, the faster the aforementioned goals will
be accomplished.

Download Linux, Windows, and Mac OS X packages:

http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=93438

For many more details, see the complete Release Notes for 0.45:

http://wiki.inkscape.org/wiki/index.php/Release_Notes045

Community submitted screenshots:

http://www.inkscape.org/screenshots/

About Inkscape

Inkscape is an open source drawing tool that uses the World Wide Web
Consortium’s ([[W3C]]) scalable vector graphics format (SVG). Some
supported SVG features include basic shapes, paths, text, markers, clones,
alpha blending, transforms, gradients, and grouping. In addition, Inkscape
supports Creative Commons’ metadata, node-editing, layers, complex path
operations, text-on-path, text-in-shape, and SVG XML editing. It can
also import EPS, PostScript, and most bitmap formats,
and exports PNG, PS, PDF and various vector formats.

Inkscape’s main motivation is to provide the Open Source community with
a fully [[W3C]] compliant XML, SVG, and CSS2 drawing tool. Additional
work includes conversion of the codebase from C/Gtk to
C++/Gtkmm, emphasizing a lightweight core with powerful
features added through an extension mechanism, and maintaining a friendly,
open, community-oriented development process.

Press Contact

Jon Phillips
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