December 2015 - Inkscape Board of Directors

[REFERENDUM] Donation to OSUOSL for 2015
by Bryce Harrington 12 Jan '16

12 Jan '16

== Proposal == Should a $200 donation be made to OSUOSL in thanks for their services provided? == Votes == Tavmjong Bah Ted Gould Jon A. Cruz Bryce Harrington Josh Andler Krzysztof Kosiński Martin Owens == Background == Last year we made a $200 donation to OSUOSL in thanks for services provided[0], as we've done previously[1]. I'd like to propose we make another $200 donation this year. Shall we do it again? Bryce Note: Our budget notes we already approved a grant to OSUOSL, but that approval was last January so the expense carried against FY2014. Yet another quirk of having been misaligned with SFC's fiscal year... Going forward this won't be an issue.

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2015 Budget actuals
by Bryce Harrington 13 Dec '15

13 Dec '15

Donna and I have gone through the ledger records to add an Actuals column for the 2015 budget: https://inkscape.org/en/about/governance/budget/ Note that FY2015 isn't over yet, so there could well be more expenses to come. Also I'm not certain we've captured everything 100% perfectly so if anything looks weird lemme know. For 2016, I think we could be more aggressive in our spending plans. It feels to me that we could afford to be more liberal in our conference attendance sponsorships. It would be great to also see more activities like last year's book program; main limiting factor has just been finding folks to do the coordination legwork, so anyone interested in organizing something like that please send in a proposal. Bryce

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SVG Working Group travel support
by Tavmjong Bah 09 Dec '15

09 Dec '15

Hi, The SVG Working Group will be holding a face-to-face meeting in Sydney at the beginning of February. I know we've discussed funding SVG Working Group travel through dedicated fund raising but as that system is not yet functional (and as we've been quite successful in raising funds the past two years) I would like to see how board members feel about my asking for funding to travel to this meeting. The SVG 2 specification is firming up. The one big section that still needs work is the text chapter. The major difficulty here is the need to interface to all the relevant CSS text specifications, some of which are not very far advanced. I've got a ton of issues that need addressing. At the Sydney meeting there will be a one day joint meeting with the CSS working group. Being able to sit down with the CSS people is the best way of making progress. I've been doing most of the work for the text section. I've had some help from another group member but he's in the process of ramping down his participation in the working group. The Sydney meeting is likely the last meeting he'll attend. I estimate the cost for attending the Sydney meeting to be about the same as last year: a bit under $2500 (I was reimbursed $2250 last year). Last year's Sydney meeting was very successful from our perspective. One can read my report at: http://tavmjong.free.fr/blog/?m=201502 This year's meeting will be more on dotting the 'i's and crossing the 't's as we try to get the spec out the door. BTW, as I work on the spec, I've also been working on Inkscape's text rendering. I've recently fixed some issues with vertical text as well as issues with multi-line text. I've also implemented the new 'text- orientation' attribute and there is a rendering only implementation of SVG 2.0 wrapped text. Tav

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December meeting log
by Bryce Harrington 09 Dec '15

09 Dec '15

On Dec 4th, 2015 we met to discuss the following items: Budget 2016 Hackfest 2016: Leeds Funded development Licensing Action items: √ Post meeting minutes [bryce] √ New agenda for next month [bryce] * Ensure KK and Alex discuss sponsor recognition [Tav] * Invite Alex to make a proposal for Leeds [bryce] * Get Project Suggestions list ready for GSoC [bryce] * Draft budget [bryce] * Do a vote for another OSUOSL donation [bryce] Some other topics we wanted to discuss (but lacked the right people): Sponsorship levels Code of Conduct & Privacy Policy GSoC 2016 C++11 Licensing issues (GPL v2+) For details of our meeting please see: https://inkscape.org/en/gallery/item/7056/ Our next meeting will be held January 8th, 2016. Bryce From: inkscape-board-request(a)lists.sourceforge.net Subject: confirm 11339c53f676616da863412bd91937fba974b335 If you reply to this message, keeping the Subject: header intact, Mailman will discard the held message. Do this if the message is spam. If you reply to this message and include an Approved: header with the list password in it, the message will be approved for posting to the list. The Approved: header can also appear in the first line of the body of the reply.

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Next Inkscape board meeting.
by Tavmjong Bah 02 Dec '15

02 Dec '15

Hi all, The next Inkscape board meeting is schedule for December 4th at 20:00 UTC/Noon PST/21:00 CEST: http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?month=12&day=4&yea r=2015&hour=20&min=00&sec=0&p1=0 All member of the Inkscape community are welcome to participate. We meet on the #inkscape-devel IRC channel on Freenode. For more details see: http://wiki.inkscape.org/wiki/index.php/Board_Meetings Tav

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