May 2016 - Inkscape Board of Directors

License Page
by Martin Owens 02 Jun '16

02 Jun '16

Because of a number of questions about file licenses, I've constructed this license page for the website: https://inkscape.org/en/about/license/ The text at the top is what's important, the rest is just the gplv2. Also, I noticed that our trunk repository has the LGPLv2 text but not the GPLv2 text, is this a mistake? Martin,

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[REFERENDUM] SVG Working Group Meetings for 2016
by Bryce Harrington 19 May '16

19 May '16

[Resending to the correct list this time... sheesh.] ----- Forwarded message from Bryce Harrington <bryce@...2...> ----- Date: Sun, 15 May 2016 23:14:31 -0700 From: Bryce Harrington <bryce@...2...> To: inkscape-devel@...5... Subject: [Inkscape-devel] [REFERENDUM] SVG Working Group Meetings for 2016 A majority vote of the current board members is required for the following matter. Proposal: Authorize SVG WG travel by Tav up to the amount in the SVG WG fund. "Inkscape's Project Leadership committee authorizes Conservancy to pay any invoice from Tav between 2016-03-01 and 2017-02-28 for SVG Working Group meetings, up to the amount presently available in Inkscape's SVG WG Fund, $2384.91. Tav must of course also comply with Conservancy's travel policy." [ ] a. Yes, authorize SVG WG expenses up to amount in fund [ ] b. No, do not authorize these expenses Votes: Resolved: Background: In the past we've had to vote on each of Tav's meeting attendances on a case by case basis. But now that we have set aside a fund specifically for these meetings, I think we should just approve any and all travel he may do, up to the total in that fund. This will eliminate uncertainty for him in making his travel plans, and simplify our voting. I enquired with Bradley Kuhn about how we can do this, and this is what he replied: <quote> Bryce Harrington wrote: > Tav attends these SVG WG meetings pretty routinely now, and I don't > recall us ever not approving his attendance. Now that we have a > dedicated fund set up for this, that isn't going to be used for > anything *but* funding Tav's SVG WG trips, would it be permissible to > give him approval to arrange his attendance at these meetings at his > own discretion, so long as the expenses are within the limit of what's > in the funding pool, without requiring board votes on each individual > meeting? I'd suggest you approve an annual maximum budget that Tav can send invoices for regarding SVG meetings, and instruct Conservancy to pay them provided Tav's within the Conservancy travel policy. That way, you only have to think about it once per year, or when he goes over budget. Something like: "Inkscape's Project Leadership committee authorizes Conservancy to pay any invoice from Tav between now and 2017-01-01 for SVG Working Group meetings, up to a maximum 2016 Travel Budget for Tav's SVG Working Group meetings of $Nk. Tav must of course also comply with Conservancy's travel policy." -- bkuhn <endquote> I aligned the dates to fiscal year 2016 since we decided to shift our budget to those dates. Below is a tally of the SVG WG fund balance as of what's in SFC's ledger system for us: ---- FY 2015 ---- Initial fund $ 0 + $2250.00 Budgeted from Inkscape General Fund 2015 $ 2250 - $ 346.82 SVG WG Sweden $ 1903.18 - $ 12.89 " " $ 1890.29 - $ 12.95 " " $ 1877.34 - $ 37.24 " " $ 1840.10 - $ 15.19 " " $ 1824.91 - $ 49.53 " " $ 1775.38 - $ 394.00 " " $ 1381.38 - $ 31.38 " " $ 1350.00 + $2250.00 Retroactive from FY 2016 Ink. Gen. Fund $ 3600.00 - $ 12.99 SVG WG Sydney Feb 3-5 $ 3587.01 - $ 12.44 " " $ 3574.57 - $1586.80 " " $ 1987.77 - $ 15.55 " " $ 1972.22 - $ 11.67 " " $ 1960.55 - $ 244.29 " " $ 1716.26 - $ 68.89 " " $ 1647.37 ---- FY 2016 ---- + $ 736.54 Donation income Dec 2015 - May 2016 $ 2383.91 This will cover Tav's recent London SVG editor's meeting (which he reports ran to about $500), an editor's meeting in Amsterdam, and other travel he'll undertake through the remainder of FY 2016. If Tav needs to spend in excess of this sum, and there have been additional donation income that covers the overage, at that point we'll need to re-vote to increase the budget limit. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Mobile security can be enabling, not merely restricting. Employees who bring their own devices (BYOD) to work are irked by the imposition of MDM restrictions. Mobile Device Manager Plus allows you to control only the apps on BYO-devices by containerizing them, leaving personal data untouched! https://ad.doubleclick.net/ddm/clk/304595813;131938128;j _______________________________________________ Inkscape-devel mailing list Inkscape-devel(a)lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/inkscape-devel ----- End forwarded message -----

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Re: [Inkscape-board] [REFERENDUM] SVG Working Group Meetings for 2016
by Jon A. Cruz 16 May '16

16 May '16

I vote a Sent from my mobile device. -------- Original message -------- From: Bryce Harrington <bryce@...2...> Date: 5/16/2016 09:21 (GMT-08:00) To: inkscape-board@...5... Subject: [Inkscape-board] [REFERENDUM] SVG Working Group Meetings for 2016 [Resending to the correct list this time... sheesh.] ----- Forwarded message from Bryce Harrington <bryce@...2...> ----- Date: Sun, 15 May 2016 23:14:31 -0700 From: Bryce Harrington <bryce@...2...> To: inkscape-devel@...5... Subject: [Inkscape-devel] [REFERENDUM] SVG Working Group Meetings for 2016 A majority vote of the current board members is required for the following matter. Proposal: Authorize SVG WG travel by Tav up to the amount in the SVG WG fund. "Inkscape's Project Leadership committee authorizes Conservancy to pay any invoice from Tav between 2016-03-01 and 2017-02-28 for SVG Working Group meetings, up to the amount presently available in Inkscape's SVG WG Fund, $2384.91. Tav must of course also comply with Conservancy's travel policy." [ ] a. Yes, authorize SVG WG expenses up to amount in fund [ ] b. No, do not authorize these expenses Votes: Resolved: Background: In the past we've had to vote on each of Tav's meeting attendances on a case by case basis. But now that we have set aside a fund specifically for these meetings, I think we should just approve any and all travel he may do, up to the total in that fund. This will eliminate uncertainty for him in making his travel plans, and simplify our voting. I enquired with Bradley Kuhn about how we can do this, and this is what he replied: <quote> Bryce Harrington wrote: > Tav attends these SVG WG meetings pretty routinely now, and I don't > recall us ever not approving his attendance. Now that we have a > dedicated fund set up for this, that isn't going to be used for > anything *but* funding Tav's SVG WG trips, would it be permissible to > give him approval to arrange his attendance at these meetings at his > own discretion, so long as the expenses are within the limit of what's > in the funding pool, without requiring board votes on each individual > meeting? I'd suggest you approve an annual maximum budget that Tav can send invoices for regarding SVG meetings, and instruct Conservancy to pay them provided Tav's within the Conservancy travel policy. That way, you only have to think about it once per year, or when he goes over budget. Something like: "Inkscape's Project Leadership committee authorizes Conservancy to pay any invoice from Tav between now and 2017-01-01 for SVG Working Group meetings, up to a maximum 2016 Travel Budget for Tav's SVG Working Group meetings of $Nk. Tav must of course also comply with Conservancy's travel policy." -- bkuhn <endquote> I aligned the dates to fiscal year 2016 since we decided to shift our budget to those dates. Below is a tally of the SVG WG fund balance as of what's in SFC's ledger system for us: ---- FY 2015 ---- Initial fund $ 0 + $2250.00 Budgeted from Inkscape General Fund 2015 $ 2250 - $ 346.82 SVG WG Sweden $ 1903.18 - $ 12.89 " " $ 1890.29 - $ 12.95 " " $ 1877.34 - $ 37.24 " " $ 1840.10 - $ 15.19 " " $ 1824.91 - $ 49.53 " " $ 1775.38 - $ 394.00 " " $ 1381.38 - $ 31.38 " " $ 1350.00 + $2250.00 Retroactive from FY 2016 Ink. Gen. Fund $ 3600.00 - $ 12.99 SVG WG Sydney Feb 3-5 $ 3587.01 - $ 12.44 " " $ 3574.57 - $1586.80 " " $ 1987.77 - $ 15.55 " " $ 1972.22 - $ 11.67 " " $ 1960.55 - $ 244.29 " " $ 1716.26 - $ 68.89 " " $ 1647.37 ---- FY 2016 ---- + $ 736.54 Donation income Dec 2015 - May 2016 $ 2383.91 This will cover Tav's recent London SVG editor's meeting (which he reports ran to about $500), an editor's meeting in Amsterdam, and other travel he'll undertake through the remainder of FY 2016. If Tav needs to spend in excess of this sum, and there have been additional donation income that covers the overage, at that point we'll need to re-vote to increase the budget limit. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Mobile security can be enabling, not merely restricting. Employees who bring their own devices (BYOD) to work are irked by the imposition of MDM restrictions. Mobile Device Manager Plus allows you to control only the apps on BYO-devices by containerizing them, leaving personal data untouched! https://ad.doubleclick.net/ddm/clk/304595813;131938128;j _______________________________________________ Inkscape-devel mailing list Inkscape-devel(a)lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/inkscape-devel ----- End forwarded message ----- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Mobile security can be enabling, not merely restricting. Employees who bring their own devices (BYOD) to work are irked by the imposition of MDM restrictions. Mobile Device Manager Plus allows you to control only the apps on BYO-devices by containerizing them, leaving personal data untouched! https://ad.doubleclick.net/ddm/clk/304595813;131938128;j _______________________________________________ Inkscape-board mailing list Inkscape-board(a)lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/inkscape-board

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Board Meeting @ Friday May 6th, 2016
by Bryce Harrington 08 May '16

08 May '16

May's meeting is coming up. It'll be in #inkscape-devel at noon Pacific time (2000 UTC). http://wiki.inkscape.org/wiki/index.php/Board_Meetings This will be a good opportunity to debrief from the hackfest and identify followup actions that the board should work on in coming months. Bryce

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regarding the forum issue
by Jill Davis 04 May '16

04 May '16

Hi Friends, Sorry, but I don't know how to reply to a thread when I'm not subscribed to the list. This is in regard to the issue with InkscapeForum.com. I'm the longest time active member there, and moderated for several years. This current situation has been the status quo for several years. If I had any idea the board or development community would take any interest, I would have contacted you long ago! Part of the reason I started Inkscape Community, was because I thought IF could go under any day. And I wanted to make sure there would be a forum, if that happened. Regarding any potential new "official" forum, I am ready and willing to moderate and/or admin. I can't handle network-level issues, or database issues. Although I'm willing to learn, if anyone is willing to teach. Also, I wanted to comment about the "official Inkscape forum" logo. When IF first opened, it was my understanding that the development community was not interested, and some were even opposed (based on a discussion with the owner/admin). It was for that reason, that the logo for that forum was "the unofficial Inkscape forum". It was only changed to "official" later, for reasons that I never completely understood. As fas as I understand, it was because a few members asked for it. If there was any designation, I'm not aware of it. That's all I have to contribute :-) All best, brynn

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inkscapeforum.com
by Maren Hachmann 02 May '16

02 May '16

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Dear Board, I would like to ask for the board's help about the following issue: The main Inkscape forum, at http://www.inkscapeforum.com, is maintained by a single admin (microugly, see whois entry of the site for more details), who is the only one with access to server, database and user permissions. The admin seems to be 'alive', indicated by private messages to microugly being read, and the 'Last active' display in the user's profil e (http://www.inkscapeforum.com/memberlist.php?mode=viewprofile&u=2). Unfortunately, for a long time, nobody has been able to successfully make contact with microugly (the last time I got a response was in October last year). Martin Owens and I tried to contact microugly via email and launchpad account, and other forum members report sending private forum messages repeatedly. There is currently only a single moderator taking care of spam (Lazur), and the spamming is getting more. The moderator has already declared that he will (understandably) not go on doing this forever, if the admin does not answer his requests for more spam protection and allowing more people to help soon. There are other users who would volunteer to help, but aside from the forum owner, there's nobody who could give them the required permissions (or do updates to the site etc.). As the forum is labelled "The official Inkscape 'users' forum", and is a very valuable resource for users, I think this is important for the Inkscape project. It would be a pity for the domain name and the collected info being drowned in spam when the only active moderator gives up. Can you help with this issue? Additional info: - ---------------- An alternative forum is maintained by Brynn, at http://inkscapecommunity.com/. It's currently a lot less active than inkscapeforum.com and thus, has a smaller information base. It's also quite a bit slower. Its maintainer, however, is very responsive, and it has a collection of well-curated information. The Inkscape project itself does not have a forum, but there have been discussions about this on the devel mailing list (but no volunteers to add one to the website). The current forum community discussion can be found here: http://www.inkscapeforum.com/viewtopic.php?f=30&t=20489 Kind regards, Maren -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.22 (GNU/Linux) iQIcBAEBAgAGBQJXJ2uSAAoJELavtZto4hQPhZAQAL9+KoLQVBXklZb1crgUryuH d310ACHwJfyzAlnpycN0DYGvSErKZBANZI4b1QlniqFE/rtnNaS/KcsOPnaUXdiZ Bcqfjn5I5duhR5aPKPWeUilCfIVydwN581JmmhWShrK1DoAfY62IcIwTu90Ujet9 Vh80fn5YOZAhbXEYgjaLKHPEIr99oD0v6WMg4+9Wn8j9Cibjo/K/ohfg+1KN7JhY JZIR6BGbq/hdNUsIASAnbG9JQYAXrh4AkuZni8lR3cQkIfwCiQTfra231vNZiuhu HRxMYHSk9gV5o77arrYijVdaKBAMgLIZCa8hzOLeXTsY8m7w+z5YoKM3N4t2vydm sNLK7txo20f+5sZur6zdEMA1fIKW7zJRPzZHfpYPYNZfMLJKnlv5m98ALW30X9Eq tY2tqvD/pynBxPpyboPcS3H3Dc+KUru6LV3N8MlNKm66XNYkM3z7Lv3Li1g0wzyQ F5DjUWsTbFklMjrDJhGCHfTqumTY7d+9wvRLKekz48jdPNE8dWbr8yxeFBKzUu1K DDhgawN2d/E6iuBfj6RiTAtdMeHoSQKNcl3M/IwSUJohW7l59GAYpSjJKXWKlvNJ gkrtjCWvXfK4y4mbWs2/fsC0qgKqdNttsG1RDR0OlpAp9OGL3LjoLkq4YJ4rOO27 J16Bm+kDIObWkEuzS50p =XpXZ -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

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