January 2008 - Inkscape Board of Directors

SCALE and my attendance
by Joshua A. Andler 29 Jan '08

29 Jan '08

Hello board, In talking with Ted about this, it seems like it's worth bringing forth to the board. Due to some issues out of my control, I won't have available funds to attend SCALE this year. As sad as it was, I could live with not going. However, they've now offered us 4 hours of classroom time (2 sessions that are 2 hours each, one for basic usage, the other for advanced usage). We do typically have Ted, John Taber, Jon Cruz, and myself there to man the booth. But, out of all 4 of us, I am probably best qualified to teach the classes as I know inkscape extremely well from a user perspective and have used it fairly extensively for illustration, design, etc. So, I am requesting if the board would approve funding my attendance this year to teach the classes (as well as all of my regular duties there). I've estimated the cost to be $500 for the hotel+taxes & gas to get to LA & back. If this is something that other board members would agree to it would help make for a really great conference this year. -Josh

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Stepping down
by njh 24 Jan '08

24 Jan '08

Dear chaps, As much as I appreciate being on the Inkscape board of directors, now that I work for Adobe it is a conflict of interest for me to remain here. Please accept my resignation and good wishes for the future. One day I may return and I hope that you'll look after our child in the meantime. njh

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Sticker plan for SCALE
by Ted Gould 12 Jan '08

12 Jan '08

Hey guys, Okay, so here is my formal proposal. I'm thinking that we should get 2000 stickers printed. There is supposedly about 5000 people at the conference, but I doubt more than 1000 have ever come by the booth. I thought about over-printing for other events, but I think we'd rather run another contest then. We've got great artists, I think providing more opportunities is better than fewer. Looking at branders.com it looks like a 3" round sticker are about $0.15 a piece. So that means that I'm asking to spend about $300, hopefully less as the bulk rates start to kick in. I would like to have the design be a contest following on the heels of the amazingly successful 0.46 about screen contest. The requirements for the contest being that the Inkscape logo must be visible and it must have the text "http://inkscape.org" or "www.inkscape.org" in it somewhere. I've suggested it to Josh, but I haven't formally asked him to run it -- he seemed okay with doing it last I asked. At the conference I'm thinking that we should "charge" a $0.25 donation for the stickers. Basically putting a roll of stickers and a bowl of quarters on the table. I'll get a couple of rolls of quarters to make change. In theory, we could make some money on the whole thing, but the goal is more to add value to the stickers so they don't just end up everywhere. I'll of course post exact dollar amounts as they become available. Both for the costs and donations that we take in. All in favor? --Ted

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