There will be five students working on Inkscape this year as Google Summer of Code students.

• Evangelos Katsikaros, mentored by Nathan Hurst, will implement spatiotemporal indexing which will improve perfomance of Inkscape.
• Krzysztof Kosinski, mentored by bulia byak, will implement Cairo-based rendering. Inkscape already uses Cairo for things like wireframe mode rendering, so the rest of it is going to use Cairo now. Last year Krzysztof implemented multipath editing in Inkscape as GSoC project (will be in upcoming 0.48).
• Zhenfeng Zhao, mentored by Johan Engelen, will implement Power Stroke LPE for Inkscape. Zhenfeng already did a successful brush related GSoC project for GIMP last year.
• Alex Trujillo. mentored by Ted Gould, will rework existing Save/Export implementation and improve the Export pane.
• Abhishek Sharma, mentored by Jon Cruz, will C++ify the SP layer and make XML nodes private.

Let's wish them succeed and have fun!

Power Stroke should make a few people happy