July 2011 - Inkscape Board of Directors

Travel funding related...
by Josh Andler 31 Jul '11

31 Jul '11

Hey All, I'm curious if we can do something. This is basically because of my current situation of still having a number of health related issues I'm dealing, and therefore can't maintain any form of steady work right now. Is there a possibility of the project getting a debit or credit card through the SFC that if the board votes to approve funding something Bradley can make payment arrangements in advance rather than it be reimbursement style? For the record, this is coming from a discussion with Jon Cruz last night and him nudging me to attend SVG Open in Cambridge, MA this year. I have an uncle out there I'd most likely be able to stay with, but the airfare would be the issue. As an aside, I will also bring up that we're trying to determine the 2 mentors for the GSoC Mentor's Summit this year as we have three very interested individuals. Jasper and Tav are both presenting at SVG Open this year so they will be in the states within a week of the summit. Felipe also wants to go... If one of them is on the waiting list, generally, Google will have the additional funding intended for the original slot available still and apply that. However, if we were to need additional funding to bridge a gap, what would the board say to funding a potential gap (this is hypothetical on a number of levels)? Cheers, Josh

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Board Membership
by Josh Andler 12 Jul '11

12 Jul '11

Hey All, As previously mentioned, I really feel that JazzyNico and Johan should be given the opportunity to serve on the board. JazzyNico has expressed interest and Johan has not (yet, who knows, I haven't cornered him yet ;). In the grand scheme of things, is anyone willing to be succeeded by either of them? If both are interested and we only have one opening (or none), I would be willing to give up my spot on the board and just serve as community nag/liaison to the board while having no voting power just to empower a current active developer with the ability to influence the project in different ways. Please give input/feedback. Cheers, Josh

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VOTE: Commercial listings policy for inkscape.org site
by Bryce Harrington 12 Jul '11

12 Jul '11

Question: What policy should govern requests by commercial entities for preferential listing on the inkscape.org website. *** All current board members are requested to vote *** Voting: Please rank the following in order of your preference for what Inkscape's policy should be. I. No paid advertisements are permitted. The Inkscape project will consider inclusion of links or references to relevant products as the website maintainers see fit. II. The board votes on each paid link proposal individually. (Basically, status quo for how we're doing things so far.) III. Specific pages on the website are designated for commercial listings. Each page has a standardized format which all listings must follow for inclusion. These listings are ordered by amount paid, with highest paid at the top. No proposals for links or listings on any other location in the site including headers, footers, or menus will be entertained. IV. Similar to III, except all such pages reserve the top section for options that adhere to FOSS principles, secondly items that are gratis, and thirdly commercial. As with III, the commercial listings are ordered with highest paid to lowest. V. Ala Carte. Every location on the website is given a price value for being listed for a specified period of time (e.g. 3 months). A schedule is drawn up and placement is sold on a first-come / first-serve basis. VI. Similar to IV but with a bidding system so prices are set by the highest bidder within a period of time. Motivation: A number of commercial entities have contacted the board regarding permission to promote publications, et al on the Inkscape web site. To date these requests have been handled on a case-by-case basis, but response from the board has been slow, and without an established policy there is a danger of being inconsistent and appearing biased in favor of one group or another. By establishing a policy, the Inkscape project will be able to handle these requests directly and consistently, without requiring committee votes for each.

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Inkscape Conference stuff...
by Josh Andler 09 Jul '11

09 Jul '11

Hey board, Can we get some conference stuff funded? Primarily, we need a slick banner for SCaLE... the standard one they provide is horrible. Also, if we can find a good supplier, selling Inkscape shirts (for very little profit) would be really cool to both spread the word, make users feel pride, and to raise small amounts of money. Selling at cost may be more awkward due to the odd amounts we'd have to ask for, but if we put it forth as "the less than $1 difference" or "the extra dollar"->"gets contributed to the project". At the very least we need shirts for people manning booths. Any thoughts? Cheers, Josh

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Re: [Inkscape-board] VOTE: Commercial listings policy for inkscape.org site
by Aaron Spike 06 Jul '11

06 Jul '11

On 7/4/2011 12:36 AM, Bryce Harrington wrote: > *** All current board members are requested to vote *** > > Voting: Please rank the following in order of your preference for > what Inkscape's policy should be. > > I. No paid advertisements are permitted. The Inkscape project will > consider inclusion of links or references to relevant products as > the website maintainers see fit. > > II. The board votes on each paid link proposal individually. > (Basically, status quo for how we're doing things so far.) > > III. Specific pages on the website are designated for commercial > listings. Each page has a standardized format which all listings > must follow for inclusion. These listings are ordered by amount > paid, with highest paid at the top. No proposals for links or > listings on any other location in the site including headers, > footers, or menus will be entertained. > > IV. Similar to III, except all such pages reserve the top section > for options that adhere to FOSS principles, secondly items that > are gratis, and thirdly commercial. As with III, the commercial > listings are ordered with highest paid to lowest. > > V. Ala Carte. Every location on the website is given a > price value for being listed for a specified period of time > (e.g. 3 months). A schedule is drawn up and placement is sold on > a first-come / first-serve basis. > > VI. Similar to IV but with a bidding system so prices are set by the > highest bidder within a period of time. IV, III, I, V, VI, II Aaron Spike

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Re: [Inkscape-board] re committee
by Bryce Harrington 04 Jul '11

04 Jul '11

On Fri, Jul 01, 2011 at 08:26:39PM +0400, Alexandre Prokoudine wrote: > On Mon, Jun 20, 2011 at 9:43 PM, Alexandre Prokoudine > <alexandre.prokoudine@...23...> wrote: > > On Sun, Jun 19, 2011 at 1:56 AM, Bryce Harrington wrote: > > > >> I need three things: > >> > >> 1. Alexandre, please indicate if you find the plan for the board to set > >> a standard policy to be acceptable, or if you think a case-by-case > >> approach as we've been doing it is preferable. > > > > In my opinion a policy is easier to reference to when it comes to > > explaining to commercial entities why we decline proposals or how > > things are done if we accept those proposals. > > > > However policies should be backed by some real work so that they > > benefit our users. Like in this case we have no active documentation > > writing community. > > Any follow-ups? I was hoping for a bit more feedback on the voting options, but I'll take the silence as assent and put the items (with Ted's additional suggestion) up for a vote. Bryce

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