September 2015 - Inkscape Board of Directors

Board Meeting @ Friday Oct 2nd, 2015
by Bryce Harrington 30 Oct '15

30 Oct '15

Hi all, We'll be holding an Inkscape Committee meeting this Friday the 2nd of October, on #inkscape-devel, at 1900 UTC (Noon PDT / 9pm CEST) http://wiki.inkscape.org/wiki/index.php/Board_Meetings All in the Inkscape community are welcome to attend. Our agenda is open for any new business. Thanks, Bryce ----- Forwarded message from Tavmjong Bah <tavmjong@...47...> ----- Date: Mon, 28 Sep 2015 17:28:13 +0200 From: Tavmjong Bah <tavmjong@...47...> To: Bryce Harrington <bryce@...2...>, inkscape-board(a)lists.sourceforge.net Subject: Re: [Inkscape-board] Proposal for board meeting An IRC meeting is an excellent idea. Any day at noon PDT (9 PM CEST) is OK with me. Thursdays I have an SVG WG meeting at 1:30 PM PDT (10:30 CEST). My agenda items would be: C++11 Hackfest 2016 Paid development Tav On Sun, 2015-09-27 at 12:20 -0700, Bryce Harrington wrote: > Hi guys, > > Now that our board is re-manned, I'm thinking it'd make sense to call > a > meeting on IRC. I don't have anything major to discuss myself, but > I'll bet the rest of you have some good ideas to float. > > How does some time first week of October sound? Thursday Oct 1st? > Or > would the weekend be better? I seem to recall that before we met at > noon pacific time; would such a time be impossible for anyone? > > http://wiki.inkscape.org/wiki/index.php/Board_Meetings > > As far as agenda goes, I don't have anything to suggest - this past > year > we've accomplished so much! I figure we can just play it by ear, and > leave the agenda to "opens". > > Bryce > > > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > --------- > _______________________________________________ > Inkscape-board mailing list > Inkscape-board(a)lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/inkscape-board ----- End forwarded message -----

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Proposal for board meeting
by Bryce Harrington 29 Sep '15

29 Sep '15

Hi guys, Now that our board is re-manned, I'm thinking it'd make sense to call a meeting on IRC. I don't have anything major to discuss myself, but I'll bet the rest of you have some good ideas to float. How does some time first week of October sound? Thursday Oct 1st? Or would the weekend be better? I seem to recall that before we met at noon pacific time; would such a time be impossible for anyone? http://wiki.inkscape.org/wiki/index.php/Board_Meetings As far as agenda goes, I don't have anything to suggest - this past year we've accomplished so much! I figure we can just play it by ear, and leave the agenda to "opens". Bryce

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Re: [Inkscape-board] Proposal for board meeting
by Jon A. Cruz 27 Sep '15

27 Sep '15

Ditto Sent from my mobile device. -------- Original message -------- From: Josh Andler <scislac@...23...> Date: 9/27/2015 13:57 (GMT-08:00) To: Bryce Harrington <bryce@...2...> Cc: Inkscape Board <inkscape-board(a)lists.sourceforge.net> Subject: Re: [Inkscape-board] Proposal for board meeting Sounds like a good idea to me. I'm pretty open on time. Cheers, Josh On Sep 27, 2015 12:21 PM, "Bryce Harrington" <bryce@...2...> wrote: Hi guys, Now that our board is re-manned, I'm thinking it'd make sense to call a meeting on IRC. I don't have anything major to discuss myself, but I'll bet the rest of you have some good ideas to float. How does some time first week of October sound? Thursday Oct 1st? Or would the weekend be better? I seem to recall that before we met at noon pacific time; would such a time be impossible for anyone? http://wiki.inkscape.org/wiki/index.php/Board_Meetings As far as agenda goes, I don't have anything to suggest - this past year we've accomplished so much! I figure we can just play it by ear, and leave the agenda to "opens". Bryce ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ Inkscape-board mailing list Inkscape-board(a)lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/inkscape-board

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Re: [Inkscape-board] [Inkscape-devel] Inkscape Board Election Results
by Bryce Harrington 26 Sep '15

26 Sep '15

On Wed, Sep 16, 2015 at 11:32:19PM -0500, Ted Gould wrote: > Dear developers, dear candidates, > > thank you all for your participation in the Inkscape Board elections — > especially to the candidates, who volunteered for these positions and > who patiently answered the questions that were asked on the mailing > list. > > All in all, 40 project members cast their vote. > > The two candidates who won the election are Krzysztof Kosiński and > Martin W.F. Owens. > > Congratulations! Thank you Ted and your colleagues for hosting our election! Krzysztof and Martin, welcome to the board! As Ted said, please make sure you have subscribed to inkscape-board@ with the email addresses you plan to conduct your Inkscape business with. Please also make sure your profile at inkscape.org is fully filled in (Jon and Ted, you also need to put something in there.) I've added both of you to the inkscape.board team in Launchpad. This gives you read and write access to our board-docs repository, which is where we handle proposals for votes. Requests and suggestions for votes can come from anyone (not just board members), but the first step is to draft a Proposal. There is a file proposals/TEMPLATE with the recommended sections to include; basically we like to have a clear and precise statement of what's to be voted on, along with a background section that explains the concept and why it's important. If there are special tasks that will need to be done, call those out and identify the assignees or how assignees will be determined. Often it's a good idea to float an idea on the mailing list to gather feedback, especially for things that might be controversial or involve a lot of money. Once it's ready to go, notify the Chair (me) to review and post the proposal for the board. (I can also handle writing up the proposal, although I _really_ appreciate it when others handle the drafting.) The Chair is responsible for collecting the votes and notifying the Conservancy. Where money is involved, Conservancy typically handles the reimbursement and often the purchasing as well. Completed proposals are then moved to the resolutions directory in the board-docs repository. I think that covers the mechanics of how the board works. One important point I should bring to your attention is the importance of casting your votes. Our new Fiscal Sponsorship Agreement specifies that board members must participate in the voting as a requirement of membership; see the FSA for details on this requirement. If you're going to be unable to vote for an extended period, there's provision given for grace periods - just let us know your timeframe and we'll sort out details. Again, thanks for your service, Bryce > You can take a look at the complete results of the election at > https://vote.sfconservancy.org/results.php?election_id=6 > > Also, we'd like to ask everyone on the Board to check up on your > profiles on the inkscape.org website and fill in a short bio text, if > there isn't any yet, as they will be presented on the web page about the > Board. > > The 'old' Board members, Tav, Ted, Jon, Bryce and Josh, will help you > with any questions you have about your duties, and give you access to > Board-only resources, like the board-docs repo at launchpad. > > All best, > The Inkscape Elections Committee > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- > Version: GnuPG v1 > > iQIbBAABAgAGBQJV+kJTAAoJEJ4oWG0z5hhcWocP9AqIbGjw9bQk6ZG/e1eDjBHA > KhlwIWpC5ynWmsCRpbqWRO+dENWGsRXJYaJpotbcUbcAhPDQKy2vvd2OjOQ2fgqL > vmj1f8mYfT0AdpN6WM9IqhWCvzqHIpyk3ttKDh9uh520t3RCAKnrjxCcovJl8KYU > tk4Aj3GUOlcoRTbZ8ooaxmnss8SBsPnXyh9RTaNNOjLhdbfbJ8KxqPmLP7TaUtHQ > ynTxQhwmGuJ/Y/D9jz2S9yVSyWFkaaB7n12lJePUm3QoQzge7FhFw7rl3YLL+/3c > 3PGZHboWhKhxcudqCm2WlNy5l5CfJMgRwiHNYxruRZI5AGn4CU6t/z1T8D5Zk+9F > 7tFstxJ0b5BhhrKKt1YBw9xAWSmp1WrMyfRyncVlstLVKqkTweoU0+4BisbzBTp9 > CHL6cJd88k04riVVpma3RsqHG7YiUJiv2PMQTqo9IEybajWgL1JjEUrwFnCRpK3h > fmM2VBQmxgyBpcmBLA1P+i7YpoxcFynGuv0xbkd+KpMSUtSyA5W5irJludcMl/xN > V7zil3bAc4zJgJF4qs0XOnPiQh/8cIoe5ewEdBjQshUVdA30pkNKmwN/Ed9vLtSu > Vr6iela5gnn1WTa4JnXYQNHhog2As6/Gt6foeSRSix6zUyNPNfvTEEbYL71Q7CyG > CN3XZfVtPBHyhBAmMZg= > =ixgU > -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Monitor Your Dynamic Infrastructure at Any Scale With Datadog! > Get real-time metrics from all of your servers, apps and tools > in one place. > SourceForge users - Click here to start your Free Trial of Datadog now! > http://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/clk?id=241902991&iu=/4140 > _______________________________________________ > Inkscape-devel mailing list > Inkscape-devel(a)lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/inkscape-devel

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Hackfest 2016
by Tavmjong Bah 26 Sep '15

26 Sep '15

Hi, If we are going to have a hackfest in 2016 we should probably start thinking about it. I quite like the idea of having a hackfest before or after LGM (London April 15-18) in Leeds (two and a half hours north of London via train). We don't necessarily need to be coupled with LGM. We talked a little bit about where to hold the 2016 hackfest in Toronto. See: http://wiki.inkscape.org/wiki/index.php/Hackfest2016 Tav

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[REFERENDUM] Funding for Attendance at the Graphics Web Conference
by Bryce Harrington 18 Sep '15

18 Sep '15

A majority vote of the current board members is required for the following proposal relating sponsoring an Inkscape to attend the Graphical Web conference in Pittsburgh. Proposal: 1. Fund $500 for attendance at the Graphics Web Conference [ ] Yes. Approve the following proposal [ ] No. Do not adopt the following proposal. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Funding for Attendance at the Graphics Web Conference ------------------------------------ 1. Background ============= The Graphical Web Conference, formerly SVS Open, is the premier conference focusing on Web graphics. Inkscape is a native editor for SVG content and is widely used for producing web graphics. It is useful for us to have a representative at this conference to keep up on the latest developments in web graphics as well as to promote Inkscape. The conference organizers have waived the conference fee for our representative as well as provide a slot for a talk on SVG 2 and Inkscape. For reference, Inkscape's 2015 budget is posted at https://inkscape.org/en/about/governance/budget/ 2. Support for Inkscape representative ====================================== Inkscape board will provide a maximum of $500 to support the attendance of an Inkscape representative to attend the Graphical Web conference in Pittsburgh in September 2015. The representative is expected to give a talk focusing on SVG 2 and Inkscape's support for SVG 2 features.

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The Graphical Web Conference
by Tavmjong Bah 16 Sep '15

16 Sep '15

Hi, The Graphical Web Conference (formerly SVG Open) is taking place Sept 23-26 in Pittsburgh. https://www.graphicalweb.org/2015/ I submitted a talk on SVG 2 (in which I highlight Inkscape) which was accepted. For the past few years the conference has fully paid my travel costs (I've asked Inkscape for backup funding each time but I never had to use it). This year it is clear that the conference will be unable to fund my travel as they are running a rather large deficit. It is probably not worth the $1500 it would take for Inkscape to send me to the conference but it might be worth sending someone who is closer, especially if that person could fill in for me. I was thinking maybe along the line of $500 of support. (We can probably get the conference fee waived.) What do you all think about this? Tav

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[REFERENDUM] Sponsorship Levels
by Bryce Harrington 16 Sep '15

16 Sep '15

A majority vote of the current board members is required for the following proposal relating to establishing funding levels and rewards for sponsors. Proposal: 1. Adopt the following proposal concerning funding levels and recognition for sponsors. [ ] Yes. Approve the following proposal [ ] Yes. Approve the following proposal but with the listed modifications. [ ] No. Do not adopt the following proposal. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Inkscape Funding Levels For Sponsors ------------------------------------ 1. Principles ============= Inkscape wishes to acknowledge and encourage donations from sponsors. This proposal establishes a set of funding levels with given rewards. 2. Levels ========= The following levels are established (in US$): Diamond Scribe: $20,000 Platinum Pen: $10,000 Golden Brush: $5,000 Silver Quill $2,000 Bronze Stylus: $1,000 3. Rewards ========== 1. Acknowledgment with logo on "Our Sponsor Page" (one year) 2. Acknowledgment with logo on our home page (one year) for Silver and above levels. Logos must be 160x80px and non-animated. SVG's are encouraged. Logos must be non-political and non-offensive with the Inkscape board and SFC being the final arbitrators of suitability. 4. Non-monetary Donations ========================== Non-monetary donations are also accepted and may, with board approval, qualify for one of the above rewards. A general rule is that $5 worth of services is equal to a $1 cash donation. Significant non-monetary donations not qualifying for a reward will be recognized in a general "Thank You" section on the "Our Sponsors" page (as is the current case). 4. Retroactivity ================ With their agreement, previous donors of $1000 or more will qualify for the above rewards with a starting date of the adoption of this resolution.

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[Referendum] Validation Election Results
by Bryce Harrington 16 Sep '15

16 Sep '15

All current board members are asked to review and indicate your acceptance of the election results. The election results for the two new seats on the Inkscape Committee are here: https://vote.sfconservancy.org/results.php?election_id=6 The anonymous raw vote data is available here: https://vote.sfconservancy.org/blt.php?election_id=6 Thanks, Bryce

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Sponsorship Support Levels
by Tavmjong Bah 14 Sep '15

14 Sep '15

Hi, In case anybody missed it, Karen reports that we have a prospective donation of $1000 in return for mention on our Sponsors page: https://inkscape.org/en/support-us/sponsors/ Bradley suggests that we should formalizing a donation program. One example he gives is Twisted Matrix: https://twistedmatrix.com/trac/wiki/TwistedSoftwareFoundation#B enefitsofSponsorship which has the following levels of support. Diamondback: $20,000 and up Platinum Python: $10,000 Golden Tree Snake: $5,000 Silver Sidewinder: $2,000 Copperhead: $1,000 Aluminum Adder: $100 He suggests skipping the lowest level. Bryce and Josh have expressed support for these levels. I think they are good too. Note that the levels have been customized. Perhaps we could have: Diamond Scribe Platinum Pen Golden Brush Silver Quill Copper Pencil The Twisted Matrix program puts the logos of Silver and higher sponsors on the home page for one year. They also dictate the size of the logos. (160x80px). I think we should adopt this program quickly before we lose this opportunity. Tav

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