Hackfest Venue
by Tavmjong Bah
Hi,
As most of you already know, our original venue for the Leeds hackfest
fell through. Alex is looking for another venue which will probably not
be free. What would be a reasonable amount to allocate for a venue?
I've already suggested to Alex that a few hundred pounds would seem
reasonable to me for a three day hackfest. What do you all think?
Tav
7 years, 1 month
Fwd: Upgrade to Project Summary Pages - Inkscape
by Josh Andler
I received this email and assume anyone else that's a project owner of
Inkscape on SF received it too. I'm in the home stretch for SCALE with
deadlines up to my eyeballs, so I can't really add this to my todo list to
take care of in the next week. I'm not a fan of them initiating this,
especially given our desire to move away from them completely at some point.
Cheers,
Josh
---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Elizabeth Daniels <edaniels@...125...>
Date: Fri, Jan 15, 2016 at 4:16 PM
Subject: Upgrade to Project Summary Pages - Inkscape
To: sfcommunity <communityteam@...126...>
To help you enhance your project summary pages so visitors can quickly
decide if your software fits their needs, we added a new feature to the page
called the "Editor's Review
<https://sourceforge.net/blog/announcing-new-editors-reviews>". Our
Community Team, along with myself as the Senior Editor at SourceForge,
manages this review. The Editor's Review includes a written review with the
top features and images and/or a short video preview, depending on the
project.
For example, here’s a video we’ve come up with for your project:
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If we don’t hear from you in a week, we’ll go ahead and add this video
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7 years, 2 months
[REFERENDUM] Donation to Software Freedom Consortium for 2016
by Bryce Harrington
== Proposal ==
Should a $600 donation be made to the Software Freedom Consortium in
thanks for their services provided?
== Votes ==
Tavmjong Bah
Ted Gould
Jon A. Cruz
Bryce Harrington
Josh Andler
Krzysztof Kosiński
Martin Owens
== Resolved ==
A $600 donation should be made to SFC.
== Background ==
Hi,
As you all know, SFC is launching a big fundraiser on Monday. As we
heavily rely on SFC I think we should consider making a donation to
show our support. They are currently 81 annual supporters short of
their minimum goal. Perhaps we could donate the equivalent of 5 annual
subscription (5 x $120 = $600)? Donations before the end of January
will be matched.
Tav
* Note that many employers will match on donations to charities, so this
is worth checking into as it'll double the impact of your donation.
* Currently 10% of Inkscape's net income is provided to SFC, as is
standard for all projects SFC manages.
* Inkscape made a one-time donation to SFC as part of our Fiscal
Services Agreement effort last year, in the amount of $1600 ($400 per
year from 2009-2012), plus a retroactive payment of 10% for income
received since 2012.
7 years, 2 months
Summary of some recent Inkscape committee votes
by Bryce Harrington
Hi,
No action is required by SFC on the following, this is sent as FYI.
== Budget 2016 ==
https://sourceforge.net/p/inkscape/mailman/message/34758004/
We have budgeted $22,850 for expenditures this year. We are estimating
$12,600 income from donations this year.
We also are establishing separate funding pools for Hackfests, SVG WG
meetings, and funded projects, for targeted fundraising purposes.
== GPLv2 Licensing Intent ==
https://sourceforge.net/p/inkscape/mailman/message/34764598/
A few GPLv3 licensed files in the Inkscape codebase engendered a
question about what the project's intent should be for licensing. With
this vote we've established that at least for now, the codebase should
be licensed GPLv2 or newer.
There seems to be some interest in migrating to GPLv3, but that will be
a separate discussion.
== Hackfest 2016 in Leeds, England ==
https://sourceforge.net/p/inkscape/mailman/message/34764581/
Following on our successful hackfest last year, a new one is being
organized to be held in conjunction with the Libre Graphics Meeting in
London. We're going to have the hackfest in nearby Leeds though, both
due to London being expensive and because an Inkscape developer lives
there and can handle logistics.
== SVG Working Group Meeting in Sydney, 2016 ==
https://sourceforge.net/p/inkscape/mailman/message/34764554/
Tavmjong Bah is willing to represent Inkscape once again this year at
the SVG Working Group meeting in Australia, and we've approved
expenses. We've started dedicated fundraising for these meetings, which
has garnered $286.54 so far, and we've also allocated an additional
$2250 from Inkscape's general fund. The board has formally approved the
amount of $2,536.54 for this trip.
Bryce
7 years, 2 months
[REFERENDUM] GPLv2 Licensing Intent
by Bryce Harrington
A majority vote of the current board members is required for the
following matter.
Proposal:
The Board officially states that the Inkscape Project's intention is for
the main codebase to be licensed as GPL version 2 or later.
[ ] a. Approve statement that Inkscape is GPLv2+
[ ] b. The board should state a different licensing policy:
____________________________________________________
[ ] c. The board should not state a license intent at this time
Background:
When Inkscape's code was originally written, it was important that it be
covered by the GPL. At that time, GPLv3 had not been created, and so
version distinctions didn't seem compelling enough to necessitate
spelling it out definitively, and thus it generally wasn't. Indeed, it
was not uncommon to leave out the boilerplate licensing statements from
the code files simply for expediency; the assumption was that placing
them in the repository was sufficient for "inheriting" the standard
Inkscape licensing.
Over time the project accumulated snippets of code adopted from other
projects, some of which had different licensing policies. Generally
these were compatible with the GPL license of the codebase, but not
always.
Inevitably all of this has led to some developer confusion over exactly
what Inkscape's licensing policy is and what it should be. With the
added complexity of GPL version 3 (and other permutations such as "GPL
v2 only"), it is becoming clear that Inkscape needs to be more precise
at tracking the licensing of the codebase, down at least to individual
file boilerplates.
An obvious first step is to have a firm decision by the project about
what the licensing *should* be, so that all code that is descrepant from
that can be addressed, and the codebase brought into compliance through
regular development efforts.
Note that this decision will be only for the core codebase itself.
Plugins, dependency libraries, and other accessory codebases such as the
website, will need to be generally compatible with GPLv2+ (assuming
that's what we choose) to the degree that the GPL requires in order for
them to link to, or be distributed with, Inkscape, or else Inkscape will
be unable to continue using them; however, this board decision is not
dictating what the exact license should be for those products, and any
adjustments needed to them as a side-effect of this decision are left to
their developers to sort out as makes the most sense for them.
Inkscape Board <inkscape-board(a)lists.sourceforge.net>
7 years, 2 months
[REFERENDUM] Hackfest Sponsorship 2016
by Bryce Harrington
Your vote is needed on the planned Inkscape Hackfest for 2016:
Proposals:
1. Hold the 2016 hackfest in Leeds on Apr 11-14 2016.
(Refer to attached proposal document for details).
[ ] a. Yes, hold hackfest in Leeds as proposed
[ ] b. Approve holding a hackfest, but recommend making the
following alterations:
____________________________________________________________
[ ] c. Do not approve holding a hackfest this year
2. Reimburse using a ranked system similar to last year, but with
increased limits and relaxed contribution requirements, as detailed
below.
[ ] a. Use ranked reimbursement. Long term, high commit developers
are sponsored up to a higher maximum than new developers.
[ ] b. Use open ended. We'll fully cover all valid expenses
incurred by the sponsorees.
[ ] c. Other:
____________________________________________________________
[ ] d. Do not reimburse for Leeds hackfest 2016 expenses
3. If a sponsoree does not hit their maximum reimbursement amount for the
hackfest itself, can they apply the remainder against LGM expenses?
[ ] Yes. Consider LGM and Hackfest expenses lumped together for
purposes of reimbursement.
[ ] No. Airfare can be covered by either Hackfest or LGM
sponsorship (or split between them), but hotel and food expenses
for each event should be handled separately.
4. The Inkscape Board sponsors a dinner event, to be funded from the
Inkscape general fund (instead of the hackfest fund), for Hackfest
attendees and guests.
[ ] Yes. Allocate $600 from Inkscape's general fund for a dinner.
[ ] Yes, but handle funding the dinner in a different way:
________________________________________________________________
[ ] No, do not fund a sponsored dinner for the hackfest.
Votes:
Resolved:
Background:
After the success of the 2015 Hackfest, there is strong interest in
sponsoring another one in 2016. Last year we co-located the event with
LGM, which was convenient for Inkscape developers who wanted to attend
LGM; we had a few LGM attendees stop by the hackfest which was nice but
perhaps not as critical.
This year's LGM is in London, and in order to achieve similar cross-over
benefits this proposal suggests holding it nearby, but not necessarily
(expensively) *in* London. Leeds is a short distance and we have an
Inkscape developer in proximity who can organize it and handle
logistics, so this seems like a sensible locale.
Last year's fundraising brought in an amount well in excess of what we
required, and indeed probably enough to cover most or all of the
sponsorship for the 2016 hackfest. Due to this, we probably don't need
to allocate money from the general fund for this event. Even so, it is
intended that we conduct another fundraiser; this will help establish
certainty for a 2017 hackfest, and/or might be usable for another
smaller (perhaps US-located) hackfest in 2016.
We established limits on the maximum sponsorship amounts last year, in
order to ensure spreading the funds widely. However, since we
underspent so significantly, and since attendance was below anticipated,
this proposal suggests relaxing the requirements and increasing the
limits:
* Up to $2500 each for Inkscape developers who have contributed for 3+
years and > 150 commits
* Up to $2000 each for Inkscape developers who have contributed for 2+
years and > 50 commits
* Up to $1500 each for Inkscape developers who have contributed for 1+
year and > 25 commits
* Up to $500 each for any Inkscape contributor listed in AUTHORS file
with at least 10 commits by Jan 1, 2016
Alex Valavanis has volunteered as event coordinator for the hackfest
event.
7 years, 2 months
[REFERENDUM] SVG WG Meeting ~ Sydney Feb 4-6, 2016
by Bryce Harrington
Proposal:
Approve SVG Working Group Meeting Sydney 2016 attendance by Tavmjong
Bah, up to $2,536.54 from the SVG WG funds pool.
[ ] Yes.
[ ] No.
Votes:
Resolution:
Background:
Tavmjong Bah is our official Inkscape representative to the W3C SVG
Working Group Meetings, and his attendance has been instrumental in the
past for ensuring the standard is developed with Inkscape's needs in
mind.
The next Face-to-Face meeting is in Sydney, Australia, Feb 4-6. We have
budgeted $2,250 for this meeting, and allocated that amount from the
general fund to a new "SVG WG funds pool". We have dedicated
fundraising for these meetings that feeds into this pool, and eighteen
donors have currently (as of Jan 10, 2016) contributed $286.54. Thus
there is currently $2536.54 available, to cover airfare, hotel, and
other associated travel expenses.
Some years there are multiple SVG WG meetings scheduled. From their
website I don't see any others listed. However if the fundraising
continues to go well then we could afford to send Tav to those as well,
at his discretion.
(As an aside, I am enquiring with SFC if given our new setup, whether we
need to continue holding a vote for each individual SVG WG meeting, or
if there's some way we can approve the attendance as a routine ongoing
expense. If we can, I'll post a vote for that. If we can't, then we'll
need to continue to do individual votes for each meeting.)
------------------------------------------------------------------------
For reference, here is the referendum background for the last meeting
that was in Sydney:
"""
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
"""
7 years, 2 months
[REFERENDUM] Donation to OSUOSL for 2015
by Bryce Harrington
== 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.
7 years, 2 months
[REFERENDUM] Budget for 2016
by Bryce Harrington
A majority vote of the current board members is required for approving
this budget.
Proposal:
1. Adoption of the Rev1 budget in the attached spreadsheet for use as
guidance in 2016 finances.
2. Align the 2016 budget to the Software Freedom Conservancy's fiscal
year, which runs 3/1/2016 to 2/28/2017. We will stretch the 2015
budget to cover expenses through 2/29/2016.
3. Formalize the division of Inkscape's funds into distinct "pools",
each carrying balances year to year, and registered in Paypal to
allow donors to directly target the pool they wish to fund, as we
did in 2015 for hackfest:2015 donations. We will still have a
General Fund for general expenses and untargeted donations.
4. Generalize last year's Hackfest:2015 pool to cover future
Hackfests. The money in this pool will be used exclusively for
Hackfest sponsorship and related organizational costs. Assume an
increase of 150% in the budgeted amounts over last year, to make
provision for increased attendance. Since the hackfest-targeted
fundraising has proven successful, no additional money is being
allocated from the General Fund; we'll rely on the balance from
last year and ongoing fundraising to cover these expenses.
5. Establish a new SVG Working Group funding pool. Seed this pool
with $2250 from the General Fund, usable retroactively (i.e. the
pool can be used to cover the Feb 3-6 meeting in Sydney,
Australia.)
6. Allocate $250 each to the three existing funded project proposals,
and to three new funded projects (to be determined in a subsequent
board vote). Each funded project will have its own pool, in order
to track per-project donations.
7. Other budgeted expenses follow the 2015 budget. An OSUOSL grant,
Developer Education (details tbd), and sponsorship for LGM and
SCALE are budgeted with the same amounts as 2015. The Contingency
line item from 2015 is eliminated since we didn't have a use for
it, and its $500 is lumped into Other Events.
8. Board chairman will document the budget on the Inkscape website,
and follow up with subsequent votes on individual expenses as
appropriate or as they come up.
[ ] a. Yes, adopt budget as described in "Rev #1" (below)
[ ] b. Revise budget with the following changes recommended:
_____________________________________________________
_____________________________________________________
[ ] c. Do not establish a budget for 2016
Background:
At the end of 2015 we have a balance of $38,000, with $11,613.10 of that
allocated to the Hackfest "pool", and $750 allocated to three funded
project efforts.
As detailed above, the 2016 budget is an evolution from 2015. The most
notable change is the formalization of funding pools. This structural
change to the budget is partly to facilitate the funded project system
currently under development, but also helps establish the philosophy of
empowering our donors in helping guide Inkscape's future through their
contribution choices.
The attached spreadsheet shows two tables. First is a listing of
expenses including allocations of money from the General Fund to other
pools (with expense amounts indicated in blue), and estimates for the
expenses. The second table summarizes the expenses, expected donation
income, and allocations between pools (with income amounts indicated in
blue). Numbers in italic indicate the amounts are just guesses, and
will be revised when actual amounts become known.
The budget is more complex this year, I hope the spreadsheet helps make
it comprehensible and apologize if it doesn't. (Advice for helping make
it clearer would be appreciated.)
Votes:
Resolution:
7 years, 2 months
Proposal to for donation to SFC
by Tavmjong Bah
Hi,
As you all know, SFC is launching a big fundraiser on Monday. As we
heavily rely on SFC I think we should consider making a donation to
show our support. They are currently 81 annual supporters short of
their minimum goal. Perhaps we could donate the equivalent of 5 annual
subscription (5 x $120 = $600)? Donations before the end of January
will be matched.
Tav
7 years, 2 months
