September 2009 - Inkscape Board of Directors

Vote: Inkscape should fund the rest of the Linux Fund project
by Ted Gould 16 Sep '09

16 Sep '09

Please reply with a yea or nay on whether the Inkscape funds of $630 should be given to Linux Fund in order to finance the remaining bits necessary for the text tool project. Ted: nay --Ted

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Linux Fund and sponsoring work on the text tool
by Ted Gould 11 Sep '09

11 Sep '09

Hello Board, So Linux Fund who has volunteered some funds to help sponsor development on our text tool has not received the matching that they would need to pay for the full development cost. They would like to either fund it, or free up the funds by the end of their fiscal year, which is the end of this month. The difference is $630. They would like the foundation to pay the difference. I have very mixed feelings on this. While it seems like a very small amount to pay for a feature that is weak in Inkscape, I'm also concerned about the prescient that it sets as we certainly don't have the money to fund development regularly. Though, there are already "funded" developers working on Inkscape through GSoC even though there are major restrictions on the eligibility by having to be enrolled in school. Lastly, there are some political implications. Linux Fund has volunteered to help us, turning this down probably would mean that they wouldn't make that offer again. I don't believe that to be a major downside, but also something that should be considered. I'm proposing that we do a simple vote on it. How about votes due by Sunday evening? Depending on that I'll either write a nice e-mail to Linux Fund thanking them for their generosity or ask the Software Conservancy to send the money. --Ted

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Re: [Inkscape-board] the LF contract
by Ted Gould 02 Sep '09

02 Sep '09

On Tue, 2009-09-01 at 22:32 +0400, Alexandre Prokoudine wrote: > Back in February we and Linux Foundation announced sponsoring Milosz > Derezynski to work on the text tool. > > I see that according to http://www.linuxfund.org/projects/inkscape/ > there simply wasn't enough funding. Maybe the Inkscape committee could > discuss this and sponsor the project? Our Text tool really demands > attention. The Linux Fund folks and Bradley from the conservancy discussed that, and they said that it is possible. Personally, I'm just a little concerned about paying developers in general. I realize that this is a small situation -- but I guess I worry about the precedent there. --Ted PS - CC'ing the board list.

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