Colour management results of Google Summer of Code 2011

We are pleased to announce the final results of this years OpenICC participation in the Google Summer of Code program [1]. All students could reach successfully the project goals and obtained the second part of the Google stipends.

OpenICC mentored two students directly and one student through the collaboration with the openSUSE organisation. All three worked on colour management projects, which covered in parts new ground breaking technology and maintain existing one.

Yiannis Belias worked on the "API stabilization for Oyranos Colour Management System II" project [2]. The new classes, code generator improvements and tools will walk into the Oyranos master branch in the next months. This project helps in stablising the CMS core, which covers a great foundation of functionality. After the conversion, it will be much easier to provide stable and extensible APIs.

Joseph Simon realised the XCPD project. It's goal was to implement the idea of a robust, standards conform printing dialog, which is based on the Common Printing Dialog (CPD) projects code. The handled and manipulated PDF follows the PDF/X specification for embedding user side colour managed content and remote printer configuration [3] [4].

Sebastian Oliva implemented a ICC device profile data base, called taxi. It is intented to share vendor and user created ICC profiles across platforms in a automated fashion. The online data base is designed to cover meta data about the device driver calibration status alongside the characterisation information in the belonging ICC profiles. The DB is online [5] [6]. The project slot was provided by the openSUSE distribution project and mentored by a OpenICC member.


Google Summer of Code is a global program that offers student developers stipends to write code for various open source software projects.

Many thanks to all students for their great work, all people how helped in shaping the basic ideas and discussing the projects in detail and Google for providing the stipends and openSUSE for addtionally inviting their students to the europe openSUSE Conference.


[1] http://code.google.com/soc/
[2] https://github.com/yiannis/Oyranos
[3] https://www.gitorious.org/google-summer-of-code-2011/xcpd
[4] http://jsimon3.wordpress.com/2011/08/23/gsoc%E2%80%9911-update-%E2%80%93-final/
[5] http://icc.opensuse.org
[6] http://openicc.git.sourceforge.net/git/gitweb.cgi?p=openicc/taxi