May 2015 - Inkscape Board of Directors

[REFERENDUM] Donation to SFC
by Bryce Harrington 07 Jun '15

07 Jun '15

[Reposting] A majority vote of the current board members is required for the following proposal relating to retroactive payment to SFC. Proposal: 1. In light of the services provided by the Software Freedom Consortium to date, given on voluntary basis, should we provide a retroactive donation to the SFC? [ ] Yes, donate to SFC in thanks for their past support. [ ] No. We should pay only the required 10% fee going forward from date of signature of the new FSA. 2. Assuming we should donate to the SFC, how much should we donate to SFC? [ ] a. 10% of gross income since we have been a member (9 years). [ ] b. 10% of gross income since initiation of FSA #2 discussions (2012). [ ] c. A flat amount of $400 per year that we have been a member (2009). This amounts to $3600. [ ] d. A flat amount of $400 per year since FSA #2 (2012). This amounts to $1200. [ ] e. Some other amount: _________________________________________________________ Background: Tav writes, "I agree with Josh and Ted that a donation to the SFC is appropriate for their past work on our behalf. Can we agree on the amount? I would propose $400 for each year we have been a member. We have been a member for 9 years so that would be $3600. This assumes that the 10% kicks in on the date the new FSA is approved. " We were asked by Bradley to provide 10% of our revenue to SFC in 2012: (b) As I've discussed with a number of you, including Jon, Josh and Tavmjong, Inkscape has received fiscal sponsorship services from Conservancy at no charge since 2006. Back when Conservancy was founded, I was an SFLC employee and SFLC was subsidizing my time -- effectively donating staff time to Conservancy. This ceased in early 2008, and I served as a volunteer for Conservancy on nights/weekends until 2011, when I became a full-time employee -- which was the only way to keep it going with the services it promises (the other option would have been to shut down Conservancy). Since then, to maintain legal services as part of the service plan once SFLC shrunk further, we hired Tony as well. We get a lot done with a staff of two, but obviously we need financial resources to be able to provide these services. Conservancy's Board of Directors voted about a year ago that all member projects should be required to give 10% of their earmarked revenue to support Conservancy to continue to provide services. This is a standard way for a fiscal sponsor to operate, and we were lucky before that we weren't required to do this, and I'd been waiting to bother Inkscape with this since you are one of our older members. (We haven't taken a new member for anything other than 10% in a few years, BTW). I hope a 10% arrangement as we use with other projects now will be acceptable to you, and I and Tony are happy to discuss further this issue. In December 2012, we voted generally favorable to paying the 10% fee going forward from 2012. There were questions regarding pass-thru of Google SOC payments and so on, but generally favored the basic idea: https://sourceforge.net/p/inkscape/mailman/inkscape-board/?viewmonth=201212 For comparison, Software in the Public Interest (SPI), an organization analogous to the SFC, provides similar services and takes 5% of net (after credit card, etc. fees): http://www.spi-inc.org/projects/associated-project-howto/

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donation for inkscape hackfest
by Máirín Duffy 19 May '15

19 May '15

Hi folks, I hope this isn't too late - Red Hat put aside $500 for the Inkscape Hackfest. One of the stipulations of the funding is that I write an article interviewing one of the developers who went to talk about how the hackfest went / what was worked on. If this sounds like a good deal, can you let me know if it's still okay to use the donation link here (https://inkscape.org/en/support-us/hackfest/) post-hackfest and who would be a good person for me to interview? Thanks ~m

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[REFERENDUM] SVG Working Group Meeting - Linkoping
by Bryce Harrington 19 May '15

19 May '15

Proposal: [ ] a. Approve funding Tav to attend the Linkoping SVG WG meeting as outlined below, for a total of up to $900. [ ] b. Do not approve funding Tav. Votes: Josh Andler Jon A. Cruz Bryce Harrington Ted Gould Tavmjong Bah (recused) Resolution: The board will subsidize travel for Tav to go to the Linkoping SVG WG meeting for a total of up to $900. Background: I (Tav) would like funding to attend the Linkoping SVG working group meeting, to be held June 9-12, 2015. The SVG working group is working through remaining issues in the SVG 2 specification. The specification is essentially feature complete. At this point incomplete features without a champion are being removed or moved into separate specifications (as happened with some new stroke and marker properties at the Sydney meeting). It would be good for me to be present in person to make sure that features important to Inkscape like mesh gradients, hatched fills, auto-flowed text are not dropped. Motions to drop features can arrive quickly and without warning as evidenced by the recent removal of SMIL animation from the SVG 2 specification. Attending in person can be very fruitful. At the Sydney meeting I was able to get text on a shape, auto-closing of paths, and smoothing in gradients into the SVG 2 specification. The major browser vendors are represented so it is a chance to lobby them to add these features quickly to the their browsers. 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/sydney_2015.html and a meeting report at: http://tavmjong.free.fr/blog/?p=1226 Approximate cost for Linkoping Transportation: Paris to Linkoping: $450 5 nights lodging/meals: $450 BTW, here is what Inkscape spent on my attending SVG WG meetings in 2015 and 2014 (additional funding to that for attending LGM and GSoC mentor's meeting): 2015: Sydney $2250 2014: Leipzig $900 (Just after LGM) London $757 (Transportation paid for by SVG Open) Santa Clara $616 (Just after GSoC mentor's meeting) Tavmjong Bah

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Summary of expenses for Hackfest and LGM
by Tavmjong Bah 16 May '15

16 May '15

Hi, I am about to submit the reimbursement request for the Toronto Hackfest and LGM. We allocated the participants a total of $12000 for the combined event. I will be submitting a reimbursement request for $4910 which, with Jabiertxo's airfare which SFC has already paid for, brings the total participation support by Inkscape to $5780. The final number may change but it won't be by much. (This does not include the $400 allocated for the Inkscape dinner.) Krzysztof wins the prize for being the thriftiest, managing to find an airfare for Warsaw to Toronto of only $505! Tav

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SVG Working Group Meeting - Linkoping
by Tavmjong Bah 15 May '15

15 May '15

Hi, There is a four day SVG Working Group meeting in Sweden next month. I would like to attend it if at all possible. This will be the last big face-to-face meeting of the group this year (there is a two day meeting planned in Sapporo, Japan in October as part of TPAC but that is a long way to go for such a short meeting). I wasn't planning on asking for funds to go to this meeting but since we didn't need to dip into our funds for the hackfest and LGM our budget seems to be in good shape. I would need a maximum of $900 to attend the meeting. We are slowly working our way through the remaining issues in the SVG 2 draft specification. Nothing significant will be added but things could be cut. I was able to defend a couple of things at the Sydney meeting and even get some new things in (text on a shape, auto-smoothing of gradient meshes, auto-path closing). I would like to be there again to defend anything that might come up. I talked to Bryce and Josh about this at the hackfest and they seemed positive. Ted and Jon, can you let me know what you think ASAP? Thanks, Tav BTW, here is what Inkscape spent on my attending SVG WG meetings in 2015 and 2014 (additional funding to that for attending LGM and GSoC mentor's meeting): 2015: Sydney $2250 2014: Leipzig $900 (Just after LGM) London $757 (Transportation paid for by SVG Open) Santa Clara $616 (Just after GSoC mentor's meeting)

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