Development. How You Can Help GIMP is Free Software and a part of the GNU Project. In the free software world, there is generally no distinction between users and developers. As in a friendly neighbourhood, everybody pitches in to help their neighbors. Please consider the time you give in assistance to others as payment. Ways in which you can help: program new features, report bugs (errors in the program), debug existing features, add documentation, translate GIMP to your own language, translate the documentation, write tutorials, participate in the UI brainstorm, improve this web site, make artwork for GIMP used in or with GIMP, let people know you used GIMP for your artwork, give away copies of GIMP, help others to learn to use GIMP, etc.
As you can see, anyone can help. Development Status The team is currently busy working on v2.10. Porting internals of GIMP to GEGL is mostly done, but more plugins have to be ported to GEGL, and GEGL needs to be made faster. Bug Reports Web Development Hacking. R Developer Page. Appy framework. Pod (python open document) is a library that allows to easily generate documents whose content is dynamic. The principle is simple: you create an ODF (Open Document Format) text document (with LibreOffice Writer for example), you insert some Python code at some places inside it, and from any program written in Python, you can call pod with, as input, the OpenDocument file and a bunch of Python objects. pod generates another ODF text document (ODT) that contains the desired result.
If you prefer to get the result in another format, pod can call LibreOffice in server mode to generate the result in PDF, DOC, RTF or TXT format. New with Appy 0.8.3: support for spreasheet templates. Appy now allows to generate, from an ODS (Open Document Spreadheet) template, spreadsheets in ODS (natively) or in Excel (by calling LibreOffice in server mode). A first example can be found in the bottom of this page.
First, create a pod template, like the one below. A pod template is an ODT document where: Software Carpentry (Version 1122) Libresoft - We Study Libre Software.