The two funded full-timers focused on making a font editor using druid as the GUI toolkit. I personally think this is the best way to grow an ambitious new toolkit from scratch. Also, there's overlap with the xi team, but in Silicon Valley speak you might say we've pivoted.

The GSoC student project is a GPU compute renderer for 2D graphics. Early experiments (piet-metal) show promise that this could advance the state of the art.