From 92b173327df4e1104d52285f00243080135bdcdd Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Noel Welsh <noel@noelwelsh.com>
Date: Fri, 20 Feb 2026 21:15:48 +0000
Subject: [PATCH 1/2] Add a couple of Doodle projects

---
 src/gsoc/directory.conf | 34 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++-
 1 file changed, 33 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/src/gsoc/directory.conf b/src/gsoc/directory.conf
index c24bc5d9..954a2881 100644
--- a/src/gsoc/directory.conf
+++ b/src/gsoc/directory.conf
@@ -161,5 +161,37 @@ ideas: [
         url: "https://github.com/typelevel/cats-collections"
       }
     ]
-  }
+  },
+
+  {
+    title: Doodle Immediate Mode Algebra
+    description: "Design and implement an API for Doodle that allows low-level bitmap based operations."
+    prereqs: "Proficient with Scala and some understanding of computer graphics."
+    difficulty: Medium
+    length: ${medium-length}
+    mentors: [noelwelsh]
+    categories: [graphics]
+    repolinks: [
+      {
+        name: Doodle
+        url: "https://github.com/creativescala/doodle/issues/93"
+      }
+    ]
+  },
+  
+  {
+    title: Doodle Skia Backend
+    description: "Add a Skia backend to Doodle, greatly improving the performance and expressivity available on the JVM."
+    prereqs: "Proficient with Scala and some understanding of computer graphics. This involves working with a library (Skija) that is not well documented and itself wraps a C++ library with patchy documentation. Hence a willingness to dive into foreign code bases is necessary."
+    difficulty: Medium
+    length: ${medium-length}
+    mentors: [noelwelsh]
+    categories: [graphics]
+    repolinks: [
+      {
+        name: Doodle
+        url: "https://github.com/creativescala/doodle/issues/175"
+      }
+    ]
+  },
 ]

From ab6566ddf3562b9a32b085f3bd3a9f6b2df54188 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Arman Bilge <armanbilge@gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 20 Feb 2026 15:06:03 -0800
Subject: [PATCH 2/2] Tweak categories

---
 src/gsoc/directory.conf | 4 ++--
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/src/gsoc/directory.conf b/src/gsoc/directory.conf
index 954a2881..ddd3c778 100644
--- a/src/gsoc/directory.conf
+++ b/src/gsoc/directory.conf
@@ -170,7 +170,7 @@ ideas: [
     difficulty: Medium
     length: ${medium-length}
     mentors: [noelwelsh]
-    categories: [graphics]
+    categories: [media, programming languages]
     repolinks: [
       {
         name: Doodle
@@ -186,7 +186,7 @@ ideas: [
     difficulty: Medium
     length: ${medium-length}
     mentors: [noelwelsh]
-    categories: [graphics]
+    categories: [media, programming languages]
     repolinks: [
       {
         name: Doodle