[Openicc] 2008 Google SoC preparations

[Kai-Uwe Behrmann]

Am 02.03.08, 14:35 -0500 schrieb Robert Krawitz:
>    Date: Sun, 2 Mar 2008 19:50:20 +0100 (CET)
>    From: Kai-Uwe Behrmann <ku.b at gmx.de>
> 
>    Here come some project ideas. Please comment if you feel appropriate.
> 
>    Printing and Devices:
>    o implement a generic device settings to colorimetry layer
>      o do a sample implementation in Gutenprint/libopenraw ...
>      (Kai-Uwe, Robert?, Hubert? ...)

For this point I'd mainly take over mentoring, to get the person up to a 
running environment, start in Oyranos. Your task would be to discuss or 
püerhaps more explain a strategy, outline technical possibilities and help 
in pointing to the right API's and examples. Syncing up with other device 
categories can happen here on this list. I'd very roughly guess 2-3 x one 
week half to one hour per work day.

>    o Makes it sense to design and implement a printer
>      calibration/linearisation gui?
>      (Graeme, Hal, Robert)
> 
> I'd be very happy to help out here, subject to time constraints.  I
> don't know how time consuming mentoring (or whatever I would need to
> do) typically is.

The student associated mentor will need regulary time how much is 
dependent from the person she/he is guiding.

> I'd really like this kind of thing to be the key feature in Gutenprint
> 5.2.  That is one of the relatively few interesting features left that
> we didn't get to in 5.0.

The above suggestions help building some components to let colour 
management work for Gutenprint on a open source base. Probably after this 
or in parallel you might start to talk with Mike and Till about closer 
integration into the print path.

A tutorial on how to embedd ICC profiles into a PPD could be a good 
start, if not yet available for instance in the CUPS documentation.

kind regards
Kai-Uwe Behrmann
-- 
developing for colour management 
www.behrmann.name + www.oyranos.org