Nathan Willis has written a very good article on Krita for linux.com, Exploring natural media graphics with Krita, where he describes where Krita developers want to take Krita in the future.

It was about the same time that I began to get serious about starting my own webcomic, and seeing what John A. was doing with Scary-go-Round made me want to go ahead and try doing my own comic as vector graphics (the existing artwork at that time—the “Year of Doubt” cover—had actually been done in partly in Photoshop and the remainder in The Gimp.)

Problem: To do this, I needed a vector graphics application for Linux. After some hunting around, I found Sodipodi, which was more or less sufficient for my needs. So I started using Sodipodi and started contributing patches.

(Less than a year later, I would begin my campeign for a fork.)

I do not believe that the fork would not have succeded without any one of the four founders. I wonder if Bryce, Ted, or Nathan have similar stories about particular occurences that got them involved with Sodipodi and thereby set them on the road to Inkscape?"

I had been leading a project called WorldForge for several years. I hadn't founded that project but had fallen into the project coordinator role pretty early on. Unfortunately, I can't report that we delivered very much, but I certainly learned a lot. I learned that there is a balance to be struck between creatively cool ideas and delivering something that people can actually use. I learned that success is more than just being right. I learned about the importance of communities and just plain getting along with people. I learned a LOT more...

Anyway, one day I was working on creating a map for some RPG game idea we'd had. I'd done a lot of game world mapping using a CAD program called Campaign Cartographer, and I'd wondered if there was anything equivalent in the Open Source world. As I've written about recently, I had learned that for an open source game development project, relying on proprietary tools was bad. So in searching around, I came across this SVG file format. A bit more searching and I found 'Sodipodi', the only open source editor around for that.

I downloaded Sodipodi and tried it out. It crashed. It crashed more. It crashed HARD. But SVG was TOO COOL. I joined the mailing list. I just hung out silently for a long time. My first post was about getting it a bit better tested and more robust.

Some of the highlights from this release:
New top level categories ’science’, ‘electronics’
New subsections ‘religion’, ‘astronomy’, ‘network’, and more
Flags collection has been fleshed out / improved a bit more
New signs/symbols and lots of new vehicles, office, sports, music, and toys clipart

Please download it directly here or find one of the other packages on their download page.