Travel funding related...
by Josh Andler
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
11 years, 7 months
Board Membership
by Josh Andler
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
11 years, 8 months
VOTE: Commercial listings policy for inkscape.org site
by Bryce Harrington
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.
11 years, 8 months
Inkscape Conference stuff...
by Josh Andler
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
11 years, 8 months
Re: [Inkscape-board] VOTE: Commercial listings policy for inkscape.org site
by Aaron Spike
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
11 years, 8 months
Re: [Inkscape-board] re committee
by Bryce Harrington
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
11 years, 8 months