January 2015 - 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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Sydney SVG WG Meeting
by Tavmjong Bah 06 Feb '15

06 Feb '15

Hi, I would like to attend the SVG working group meeting in Sydney next month. The working group is targeting this meeting to move the SVG 2 specification into "last call" at which point no new features can be added and incomplete features can be dropped. It is an important meeting to attend to make sure that features that are important to Inkscape remain in the specification. The full justification for attending is in the attached proposal (which is also checked into the Inkscape board bzr repository). The cost of attending (both financial and time) is higher than previous meetings that I have attended with Inkscape's support but I think the importance of this meeting justifies it. Note, reports from previously attended SVG WG meetings can be found on my blog: http://tavmjong.free.fr/blog/ Tav Proposal: [ ] a. Approve funding Tav to attend the Sydney SVG WG meeting as outlined below, for a total of up to $2250. [ ] b. Do not approve funding Tav. Background: I (Tav) would like funding to attend the Sydney SVG working group meeting, to be held February 11-14, 2015. The first day will be a joint meeting with the CSS working group. At this meeting, the SVG working group plans on moving the SVG 2 specification to "Last Call". At this point the specification is essentially feature complete with no new features to be added and incomplete features removed. It is an important meeting to attend in person to make sure that features important to Inkscape such as mesh gradients, hatched fills, and auto-flowed text are not dropped. It also is a last chance to add new features adopted like text-on-a-shape or resolve problems such as getting proper closing of paths. The meeting also is an opportunity to lobby the browsers to implement SVG 2 features already supported by Inkscape such as the 'context-fill' and 'context-stroke' values for the 'fill' and 'stroke' properties which allows automatically matching marker fill color to path stroke color and the 'auto-reverse-start' value for the marker orientation which allows an arrow marker to be used both at the start and end of a path. Progress on SVG 2 can be followed at: https://svgwg.org/svg2-draft/ My presentations at the last SVG working group meeting can be found at: http://tavmjong.free.fr/SVG/tpac_2014.html and a meeting report at: http://tavmjong.free.fr/blog/?p=1154 Approximate cost for Sydney Transportation: Paris to Syndey: $1500 6 nights lodging/meals: $ 750 Tavmjong Bah

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Jenkins email
by Johan Engelen 24 Jan '15

24 Jan '15

Hi all, What email service do you want to use for Jenkins to send us mails? For example, I can set up a Gmail account for this. thanks, Johan

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Resignation
by Johan Engelen 12 Jan '15

12 Jan '15

Hi all, I want to give you a heads-up that I am probably going to resign my board membership soon. There are many reasons. Not worrying about Inkscape for the past few weeks has been very nice, without any bad emotions behind the keyboard. It is a pity, and I feel sorry about it. I'd like to stay on to finish the FSA thing, so that we get that done, and then resign shortly after. regards, Johan

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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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