April 2016 - Inkscape Board of Directors

Conservancy at OSCON
by Josh Andler 22 Apr '16

22 Apr '16

Hey all, So I'm sure you all saw Karen reach out to member orgs for help with manning their booth at OSCON. I would be willing to go help them do this, however, I would need some funding assistance from the project to make it happen. As they had said, we would be able to promote our project there and I feel like it might be good to reach out at a higher profile event like this. I would also seek outside donation to our project to help facilitate this but wanted to bring it up to see if other board members feel like this is a worthwhile cause. Thoughts? Cheers, Josh

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Re: [Inkscape-board] Conservancy at OSCON
by Jon A. Cruz 21 Apr '16

21 Apr '16

Sounds good to me. It would be a good opportunity. Sent from my mobile device. -------- Original message -------- From: Josh Andler <scislac@...23...> Date: 4/20/2016 20:05 (GMT-08:00) To: Inkscape Board <inkscape-board(a)lists.sourceforge.net> Subject: [Inkscape-board] Conservancy at OSCON Hey all, So I'm sure you all saw Karen reach out to member orgs for help with manning their booth at OSCON. I would be willing to go help them do this, however, I would need some funding assistance from the project to make it happen. As they had said, we would be able to promote our project there and I feel like it might be good to reach out at a higher profile event like this. I would also seek outside donation to our project to help facilitate this but wanted to bring it up to see if other board members feel like this is a worthwhile cause. Thoughts? Cheers, Josh

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Hackfest and LGM Impressions
by Tavmjong Bah 18 Apr '16

18 Apr '16

Hi, I just want to let the board know a bit about the hackfest and LGM. I assume that you've read the posts on Google+ and seen all the activity on IRC and in Bazaar. I think this year's hackfest was very successful. We got a lot of hacking done including fixing the GTK3 flashing bug and getting a lot closer to being able to switch to CMake. This hackfest had a different tone than last year's. We spent a lot more time coding and a lot less time discussing (only an hour or two). I think we did need to spend a lot of time last year on discussions as that was the first time we really sat down together. Our monthly board meetings have probably also reduced the need to spend a lot of time on discussions. I also think the LGM meeting was more useful this year than last year, not because the talks were better (perhaps they were a bit on average) but because we were able to both continue working on the code and spend a lot of time discussing with others issues that effect Inkscape. We had a good meeting with some designers who use Inkscape everyday and have started an Inkscape interface group which should come in handy as we rework the GTK3 dialogs. I met with people concerning better library support in HarfBuzz for accessing OpenType features which would allow a better interface to font features. Martin talked to the Gimp people about their plans for GTK3. Tom Lechner gave a nice talk demoing some interesting ways of interfacing with text which might be of interest to us. (He also gave a workshop on his very interesting engraving tool.) I would recommend we start thinking about another hackfest, either in the Fall or Spring. LGM will be in Rio de Janeiro in late April or early May. While I would love to visit Rio, I'm not sure we would get a large enough turnout for a hackfest there (hotel/food would be cheap but flights expensive). Martin has suggested a hackfest in Boston. That might be a good location as it's not so far from both Europe and the US west coast. LGM 2018 will most likely be in Europe, possibly Milan. Tav

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[REFERENDUM] Sponsor Olof Bjarnason for $500
by Bryce Harrington 11 Apr '16

11 Apr '16

A majority vote of the current board members is required for the following matter. Proposal: Reimburse Olof Bjarnason up to $500 for travel expenses to attend the 2016 Inkscape Hackfest. [ ] a. Yes, approve the reimbursement as stated above. [ ] b. No, do not approve reimbursement as stated above. Votes: Bryce Harrington Josh Andler Tavmjong Bah Jon A. Cruz Ted Gould Krzysztof Kosiński Martin Owens Resolved: Background: I (Tav) was asked by another Inkscape developer if it would be possible to invite Olof Bjarnason to the Inkscape hackfest with a sponsorship level of $500. Olaf has been participating on the Inkscape developer's mailing list since September 2015 and was active in helping Marc with adding additional node alignment options this year. He is not in the Inkscape authors file thus does not qualify for sponsorship under the current criteria (he has had a few patches accepted for lib2geom including one in 2015). As an enthusiastic relatively new Inkscape developer it seemed prudent to invite him to the hackfest. I queried the board members through the mailing list, and after getting positive responses by four other members I invited Olof. This resolution is to formalize the decision. Note, this resolution does not increase the budget for the hackfest nor does it open up invitations to any other person without board consent.

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[scislac@...23...: Re: [REFERENDUM] Sponsor Olof Bjarnason for $500]
by Bryce Harrington 04 Apr '16

04 Apr '16

----- Forwarded message from Josh Andler <scislac@...23...> ----- Date: Mon, 4 Apr 2016 00:11:04 -0700 From: Josh Andler <scislac@...23...> To: Bryce Harrington <bryce@...2...> Subject: Re: [Inkscape-board] [REFERENDUM] Sponsor Olof Bjarnason for $500 I vote A. Cheers, Josh On Apr 3, 2016 11:53 PM, "Bryce Harrington" <bryce@...2...> wrote: > A majority vote of the current board members is required for the > following matter. > > Proposal: > > Reimburse Olof Bjarnason up to $500 for travel expenses to > attend the 2016 Inkscape Hackfest. > > [ ] a. Yes, approve the reimbursement as stated above. > [ ] b. No, do not approve reimbursement as stated above. > > Votes: > > Bryce Harrington > Josh Andler > Tavmjong Bah > Jon A. Cruz > Ted Gould > Krzysztof Kosiński > Martin Owens > > Resolved: > > > Background: > > I (Tav) was asked by another Inkscape developer if it would be possible > to invite Olof Bjarnason to the Inkscape hackfest with a sponsorship > level of $500. Olaf has been participating on the Inkscape developer's > mailing list since September 2015 and was active in helping Marc with > adding additional node alignment options this year. He is not in the > Inkscape authors file thus does not qualify for sponsorship under the > current criteria (he has had a few patches accepted for lib2geom > including one in 2015). As an enthusiastic relatively new Inkscape > developer it seemed prudent to invite him to the hackfest. > > I queried the board members through the mailing list, and after getting > positive responses by four other members I invited Olof. This resolution > is to formalize the decision. > > Note, this resolution does not increase the budget for the hackfest nor > does it open up invitations to any other person without board consent. > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > _______________________________________________ > 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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