April 2007 - Inkscape Board of Directors

Board things
by Ted Gould 23 Apr '07

23 Apr '07

Okay, Now that we've got some legal structure set up I'm curious if we shouldn't start looking at things we can/can't/should/shoudn't do. Here's some ideas floating through my head, I'd love to know everyone's opinion on them: - Domain name, should we transfer this to be in the group's name? Can we do it? Does SFC have a process for this? - Trademarks, etc. on the Inkscape name/logo, "Draw Freely" and other such stuff. Do we think this is worthwhile? Can the SFC lawyers help us with this or do we need to find an outside firm? - If we do the above, do we need to draft a little "fair use" document kinda like the one that Linus has for Linux(tm) (used without permission)? - Swag. I don't know how Mental feels about it, but should we look at using his, or making another, Cafepress site that marks up the goods slightly to put monies into our coffers. It seems that people would rather buy something marked up than donate (or at least that's the only logic I can find to all the return address labels I get). Okay, that's my dump. Thoughts? Ideas? --Ted

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Re: [Inkscape-board] board mailing list
by Ted Gould 08 Apr '07

08 Apr '07

On Fri, 2007-04-06 at 15:31 -0700, Bryce Harrington wrote: > Done. I also took the liberty of signing everyone up, I hope that's > cool with everyone. NOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!! :) Okay, I'm all better now. Is everyone here? --Ted

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LGM Sponsorships
by Ted Gould 08 Apr '07

08 Apr '07

Bryce, How many requests for sponsorship did you get? Less than 6? --Ted

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Inkscape payment to OSUOSL
by Bryce Harrington 06 Apr '07

06 Apr '07

On Tue, Mar 13, 2007 at 05:15:13PM -0400, Bradley M. Kuhn wrote: > > Also, the Inkscape board is currently voting on some budget items for > > this year including several $250 sponsorships for attendees at a > > conference in May, and a $200 donation to our ISP. Who do we contact or > > what is the procedure for getting checks cut for these things? > > Write to this address <conservancy@...13...> > > Just send us as much documentation (e.g., notes from a meeting, email > decision) regarding the leadership's decision as is easily available, > along with information about who the money should go to and (if it isn't > clear from the other documentation) a short description of what the > expense is for. Hi, The Inkscape board has voted to approve payment of a $200 donation to OSUOSL for their hosting services for our webserver. Attached is discussion from the vote. The final summary of the vote is also attached. Payment will be in the form of a $200 check made payable to "OSU Foundation", sent to the following address: OSU Foundation 850 SW 35th Street Corvallis, OR 97333 Please let me know if there are any questions. Thanks, Bryce ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Bryce, Yes, you can send a check directly to the OSU Foundation and please include a note listing where to direct your gift. The address for the OSU Foundation is listed below: OSU Foundation 850 SW 35th Street Corvallis, OR 97333 Thank you and if you have any questions I can be reached at 800-354-7281. Kellie Parker

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Re: [Inkscape-board] Making a donation from Inkscape to OSUOSL
by Bryce Harrington 06 Apr '07

06 Apr '07

Great, thanks! On Fri, Apr 06, 2007 at 04:06:03PM -0700, Parker, Kellie wrote: > Bryce, > Yes, you can send a check directly to the OSU Foundation and please > include a note listing where to direct your gift. The address for the > OSU Foundation is listed below: > > OSU Foundation > 850 SW 35th Street > Corvallis, OR 97333 > > Thank you and if you have any questions I can be reached at > 800-354-7281. > > Kellie Parker > > -----Original Message----- > From: Bryce Harrington [mailto:bryce@...2...] > Sent: Friday, April 06, 2007 4:02 PM > To: OSU Foundation Annual Giving > Subject: Making a donation from Inkscape to OSUOSL > > Hi, > > I've a question on how to arrange a donation to OSUOSL from Inkscape. > > The Inkscape project has enjoyed being hosted at OSUOSL and our board > has voted to give a $200 donation to say thanks. However, as an > organization we do not have a credit card, so cannot use the handy web > contribution form. > > Is it possible for us to send a check to you? Who would we mail it to? > > Thanks, > Bryce

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Making a donation from Inkscape to OSUOSL
by Bryce Harrington 06 Apr '07

06 Apr '07

Hi, I've a question on how to arrange a donation to OSUOSL from Inkscape. The Inkscape project has enjoyed being hosted at OSUOSL and our board has voted to give a $200 donation to say thanks. However, as an organization we do not have a credit card, so cannot use the handy web contribution form. Is it possible for us to send a check to you? Who would we mail it to? Thanks, Bryce

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Budget Proposal - final votes
by Bryce Harrington 06 Apr '07

06 Apr '07

Forwarding to the new inkscape-board@ list to have this in the official archives. Bryce ----- Forwarded message from Bryce Harrington <bryce@...2...> ----- Date: Tue, 3 Apr 2007 17:01:13 -0700 From: Bryce Harrington <bryce@...2...> To: "Joshua A. Andler" <joshua@...6...> Cc: Aaron Spike <aaron@...7...>, Ted Gould <ted@...1...>, MenTaLguY <mental@...8...>, Jon Cruz <jon@...9...>, njh <Nathan.Hurst@...10...> Subject: Re: Budget Proposal On Tue, Mar 13, 2007 at 11:25:17AM -0700, Joshua A. Andler wrote: > Aaron Spike wrote: > >Bryce Harrington wrote: > >>On Tue, Mar 13, 2007 at 06:02:09AM +0000, Ted Gould wrote: > >>>>>So, then how about 6 people at $250/each and we'll encourage people to > >>>>>look for LGM sponsorships? Is that what we're heading to? > >>>>Yeah - how's that sound to everyone? > >>>Sounds good to me! > >>> > >>>So, all those in favor of $1500 for LGM sponsorships say 'aye'! > >>Ted Gould aye > >>Bryce H. aye > >>Mental Guy aye > >>Aaron Spike aye > >>Jon Cruz aye > >>Joshua A. aye > >>Nathan Hurst ? Not sure what happened to Nathan, but looks like we have enough votes. Brad at SFC says the procedure is to forward them documentation about the decision, details about who to pay, how much, etc. I'll take care of this, but I guess the next big thing is to identify who will be getting it. I need some advice on this - should we identify the recipients ahead of time, so they have the money in hand, or do a reimbursement after the event? > >>>All those in favor of a $200 donation to OSU for hosting inkscape.org > >>>say 'aye'! > >>Ted Gould aye > >>Bryce H. aye > >>Mental Guy aye > >>Aaron Spike aye > >>Jon Cruz aye > >>Joshua A. aye > >>Nathan Hurst ? Looks like we have a concensus on this. I'll work on getting this payment made with SFC. Bryce ----- End forwarded message -----

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Welcome aboard
by Bryce Harrington 06 Apr '07

06 Apr '07

Just verifying the new list works. And Aaron said he wasn't getting enough board mail so... Bryce

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