November 2014 - Inkscape Board of Directors

Pre-approving projects for funding
by Bryce Harrington 11 Feb '15

11 Feb '15

One of the capabilities the new funded development policy[0] gives us is the ability to specify some projects as immediately fundable, without needing to wait the proscribed 6 months. I would like to propose we select a few projects to pre-approve, in order to prime the pump, and to serve for testing out the process. When we started this whole effort, KK suggested a number of good projects. These perhaps need a bit more elaboration but give something to select from. Would you guys please look through this list for 2-3 projects you think would make good initial fundable projects? Nominate ones that are well-contained and straightforward - things that would make appropriate GSoC projects for example. Please feel free to expound on the project definitions. http://wiki.inkscape.org/wiki/index.php/Projects I'll collect everyone's nominations into a list, and we'll vote on them. Projects that get >50% vote will be made pre-approved. Bryce 0: See "Section 6: Process Exceptions" http://inkscape.org/en/contribute/funded-devel/

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OSUOSL contribution
by Bryce Harrington 04 Jan '15

04 Jan '15

Some years ago we made a $200 donation to OSUOSL in thanks for services provided[1]. I'd like to propose we make another $200 donation this year. Thoughts? Bryce 1: http://sourceforge.net/p/inkscape/mailman/message/172490/

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Developer book campaign 2014
by Johan Engelen 03 Dec '14

03 Dec '14

Hi all, I'd like to get the developer book campaign done before the holiday season this year. The proposal is in board-docs: proposals/developer_education_book_campaign_2014.txt Differences with last year are: - *sum* of ohloh.net 12-month rankings for Inkscape *and lib2geom* - extended book choice: Stackoverflow list of good C++ books We had a bit of a discussion on IRC about this. For simplicity, I think it'd be good if we keep this a developer education campaign, i.e. C++ books. And then have another something for the non-coders. We of course appreciate those efforts too, I just don't know how to "rank" them and what to give. Something fun was proposed: add randomization to it. So, we pick 10 out of the top 25 committers. The picking is done randomly, where your win-chance is proportional to your commit count (p = your #commits / total #commits) regards, Johan

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Continuous Integration
by Johan Engelen 28 Nov '14

28 Nov '14

Hi all, The Jenkins server seems to work well. Today we got extra space (30GB total now), so now we should have plenty for: - trunk build, unittest, etc. - release, unittest, etc. - rendertest (trunk only?) - 2geom trunk, tests, etc. - wishes? 1. I want to give more people access to Jenkins. If only to be able to restart builds if something simple goes wrong (bzr sometimes crashes, which fails the build. Simply clicking the Build Now button fixes that). Ping me on IRC for login details. I prevented people from signing up, because it quickly creates a mess of users in my previous experience. Perhaps there is a better way. Access rights are pretty granular btw. No root rights required for everybody, keeping OSUOSL happy. 2. I would greatly appreciate it if someone can help me to quickly forward port 80 to 8080, so that we can access jenkins simpler through http://jenkins.inkscape.org 3. Bryce, when we have released and things are quieter for you, let's set up Coverity together. 4. Simple mail send-only capability must be set up. I have no experience with this. Help is welcome. 5. I'll try to get rendertests going. Tomasz's branch output looks great. 6. Remember Josh's post about inkscape-tester, sign up for it! cheers, Johan

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Next Inkscape board meeting
by Tavmjong Bah 26 Nov '14

26 Nov '14

Hi, We'll be having an IRC meeting today (Wednesday, November 26th, 20:00 UTC). The agenda and IRC channel info can be found at: http://wiki.inkscape.org/wiki/index.php/Board_Meetings Everybody is welcome to join the discussion. We'll continue the discussion of the Hackfest we'll be holding before the LGM meeting in Toronto as well as discussing fund raising, testing, etc. You can read more about the Hackfest at: http://wiki.inkscape.org/wiki/index.php/Hackfest2015 Hope to see you there, Tav

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Assembly
by Johan Engelen 21 Nov '14

21 Nov '14

http://www.theverge.com/2014/11/21/7258667/assembly-collaborative-work-open…

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Next Inkscape board meeting: focus on Hackfest 2015
by Tavmjong Bah 18 Nov '14

18 Nov '14

Hi, Our next IRC board meeting is schedule for Wednesday, November 12th, 20:00 UTC. The agenda and IRC channel info can be found at: wiki.inkscape.org/wiki/index.php/Board_Meetings Everybody is welcome to join the discussion. This is an important meeting as we need to finalize some of the details for the LGM Hackfest. We need to decide: * Place (Toronto or Boston) * Date (before or after LGM) * Duration (two or three days) * Attendance You can read more about the proposed meet up at: http://wiki.inkscape.org/wiki/index.php/Hackfest2015 See you Wednesday, Tav

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Regular meetings
by Johan Engelen 11 Nov '14

11 Nov '14

Hi all, (just got back from a very nice long weekend at the GSoC summit in San Jose :)) We had a nice discussion with Brad and Karen over lunch at the GSoC summit. What came up is having regular board meetings. I think this would be great for us and make things a bit more structured / easier to follow. How about we schedule a meeting (for board only) once every month, e.g. every first Monday of the month? What do you think? cheers, Johan

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Code of Conduct Page
by Martin Owens 02 Nov '14

02 Nov '14

Dear Board, To help move the code of conduct forwards, we've (by which I mean Maren) has put together a draft page. All board members have editing rights on the website so you should be able to edit it directly if you need to. https://inkscape.org/en/community/coc/ Once you're happy with the draft, we'll make it live (in the menu) and add links from various social spots such as the comment boxes and IRC page. So do respond to this email with your thoughts too. Thanks for your time. Best Regards, Martin Owens Webmaster

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