September 2018 - Inkscape Board of Directors

[RESOLUTION] Participation in Outreachy and authorization for fundraising
by Bryce Harrington 08 Mar '19

08 Mar '19

Proposal: --------- Shall Inkscape participate in the Outreachy internship program, and allow the earmarking of donations for funding one or more Outreachy slots? - [ ] a. Yes, participate in Outreachy and allow collection of donations to fund one or more internship slots. - [ ] b. No, do not participate in Outreachy at this time. - [ ] c. Other ___________________ Votes: ------ | Board Member | 1. | | -------------------- |:--:| | Bryce Harrington | a. | | Josh Andler | a. | | Tavmjong Bah | a. | | Ted Gould | | | Martin Owens | a. | | Marc Jeanmougin | a. | | Chris Rogers | a. | Resolution: ----------- Inkscape will begin earmarking of donations for the Outreachy internship program, with the goal of participating in one or more Outreachy slots. Note that at this time it is assumed the cost of the Outreachy participation will be covered entirely by the earmarked donations. Background: ----------- At the Boston hackfest Máirín Duffy suggested Inkscape participate in the Outreachy internship program, and offered to help with organizing and fundraising for it. We discussed it in detail at the board meetings, but I don't think we formally voted on it. Conservancy requires a formal vote for moving forward with collection of donations for us. One way Outreachy appears to differ from the GSoC program is that funding must be arranged by the mentoring organization. Máirín believes that adequate external funding can be secured for Inkscape, to cover at least one student. With the Inkscape Committee's approval, Conservancy will create a Donate button to receive and earmark funds to be used for the Outreachy slot. At this time it is assumed the cost of the Outreachy participation will be covered entirely by the earmarked donations. If it becomes desireable in the future for Inkscape to cover portions of the internship cost, a separate vote will be done. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ On Wed, Aug 29, 2018 at 08:52:08PM +0000, Bradley M. Kuhn via RT wrote: > Oh, I forgot to add in my last email, Máirín asked for us to set up an "account". To be clear, we are *not* setting up an "account" for this -- that's a term of art in accounting and it defintiely is not how we handle the situation when an existing Conservancy member project wants to fund an Outreachy internship. > > What we can set up is a donate button, which is what I've changed this ticket into an action item for. > > Since both Inkscape and Outreachy are Conservancy member projects, I believe it's ok to say publicly that the funds are meant for that, but please don't do that until I'm in possession of a a vote in the approvals queue where Inkscape Committee has voted to fund an Outreachy slot. Bryce, please take that as an action item and email to approvals creating a separate ticket. > > But, to be clear, the money will be officially earmarked for Inkscape, in their regular "Income:Donations" account, and the thing that will bind it to go to the Outreachy slot will be the vote by the Inkscape PLC to spend money on a slot. > > If you have further questions about what's appropriate to say during fundraising campaign,or other related issues to this, probably best to discuss in detail with Karen outside of any specific RT ticket. >

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Board meeting Friday Sep 7th at 10am Pacific
by Bryce Harrington 08 Sep '18

08 Sep '18

Our monthly board meeting is scheduled for Friday, Sep 7th, at 10am Pacific in #inkscape-devel. All members are welcome. http://wiki.inkscape.org/wiki/index.php/Board_Meetings Agenda: ------- * Kiel Hackfest next week ~ [[Hackfest2018 Kiel]] * Future meetings/hackfests. ** [http://www.socallinuxexpo.org/scale/17x/ SCALE] - March 7th-10th, 2019 (Pasadena, California) ** [http://libregraphicsmeeting.org/2019/ LGM 2019] - May 30th-June 3rd (Saarbrucken, Germany) Proposed. (About two hours by train from Paris.) * Merchandise sales ** Spreadshirt ** Evaluate self-serve merchandise sales - spreadshirt, cafepress, Golden Ribbon, Think Penguin or similar [Mc] * Outreachy: Next round starts in August [https://www.outreachy.org/mentor/] * Action Items * Other Business Action Items from last meeting: ------------------------------- == Merchandise Sales == ♢ ACTION: Investigate hellotux.com for merchandise [crogers] ♢ ACTION: Coordinate announcement of spreadshirt with hackfest [crogers, vectors team] === Future meetings/hackfests === ♢ ACTION: Set up wiki page for SCALE hackfest [Tav] ♢ ACTION: Check into pre/post SCALE meeting options & AirBNB [tedg, scislac] === 0.92.4 Release === ♢ ACTION: Kickoff 0.92.4 release in early August [bryce] ♢ ACTION: Remember to put correct version string in AC_ for 0.92.4 [bryce] === 1.0 Release === ♢ ACTION: Check in with people doing test case conversion [Tav] ♢ ACTION: ping jimmac/barbara about the symbolic icons for adding the theme to Inkscape [scislac] ♢ ACTION: Plan video for Inkscape 1.0 release [crogers] ♢ ACTION: Brainstorm plans for 1.0beta / 1.0 commemorative merch [crogers, tedg] ♢ ACTION: Review bug fix list http://wiki.inkscape.org/wiki/index.php/1.0_Release_Bug_Fix_List [bryce] ♢ ACTION: Plan bug management for 1.0 [bryce,Mc] === Outreachy === ♢ ACTION: Verify that outreachy project proposal is written and available online [doctormo] Transcripts of previous meetings: --------------------------------- http://alpha.inkscape.org/board/meetings/transcripts/ Bryce

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[REFERENDUM] Participation in Outreachy and authorization for fundraising
by Bryce Harrington 07 Sep '18

07 Sep '18

A majority vote of the current board members is required for the following matter. Proposal: --------- Shall Inkscape participate in the Outreachy internship program, and allow the earmarking of donations for funding one or more Outreachy slots? - [ ] a. Yes, participate in Outreachy and allow collection of donations to fund one or more internship slots. - [ ] b. No, do not participate in Outreachy at this time. - [ ] c. Other ___________________ Votes: ------ | Board Member | 1. | | -------------------- |:--:| | Bryce Harrington | | | Josh Andler | | | Tavmjong Bah | | | Ted Gould | | | Martin Owens | | | Marc Jeanmougin | | | Chris Rogers | | Resolution: ----------- Background: ----------- At the Boston hackfest Máirín Duffy suggested Inkscape participate in the Outreachy internship program, and offered to help with organizing and fundraising for it. We discussed it in detail at the board meetings, but I don't think we formally voted on it. Conservancy requires a formal vote for moving forward with collection of donations for us. One way Outreachy appears to differ from the GSoC program is that funding must be arranged by the mentoring organization. Máirín believes that adequate external funding can be secured for Inkscape, to cover at least one student. With the Inkscape Committee's approval, Conservancy will create a Donate button to receive and earmark funds to be used for the Outreachy slot. At this time it is assumed the cost of the Outreachy participation will be covered entirely by the earmarked donations. If it becomes desireable in the future for Inkscape to cover portions of the internship cost, a separate vote will be done.

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[RESOLVED] Trademark renewal expense approval
by Bryce Harrington 07 Sep '18

07 Sep '18

Resolution: ----------- Payment of registration fees for renewing three Inkscape trademarks is approved. SFC is directed to file the renewals with the trademark office. Proposal: --------- A majority vote of the current board members is required for the following matter. - [ ] a. Authorize renewal of 3 trademarks for $1,275 - [ ] b. Other: _____________ Votes: ------ | Board Member | 1. | | -------------------- |:--:| | Bryce Harrington | A. | | Josh Andler | | | Tavmjong Bah | A. | | Ted Gould | A. | | Martin Owens | A. | | Marc Jeanmougin | A. | | Chris Rogers | A. | Background: ----------- Hi all! I assume we want to renew all of these? Please let me know if the PLC authorizes the trademark office fees of $1,275 (we foot the lawyer time for renewals as we do with the initial stages of trademark defense). best, karen -------- Original Message -------- Subject: Renewal of Registrations for DRAW FREELY, INKSCAPE and Inkscape Logo Date: 2018-08-31 10:44 am From: Anne xxxxxxx To: legal@...41... Cc: Pamela xxxxxxx Re: Renewal of DRAW FREELY, INKSCAPE and Inkscape Logo Deadline: 25 Aug 2019 Dear Karen, Software Freedom Conservancy has previously registered the trademarks referenced below for use with goods in class 9: TRADEMARK REGISTRATION NUMBER REGISTRATION DATE CLASSES & GOODS (TABLE) DRAW FREELY. 3672956 25 Aug 2009 9 - Computer graphics software; Downloadable computer software for vector graphics editing INKSCAPE 3672917 25 Aug 2009 9 - Downloadable computer software for editing vector graphics INKSCAPE LOGO 3672907 25 Aug 2009 9 - Downloadable computer software for editing vector graphics The window for renewing these trademark registrations is now open. The renewals can be filed anytime between now and the final deadline of 25 Aug 2019, and there is also a six-month grace period for renewing. It is, however, our suggestion that you renew it as soon as possible, in order to have time to address any problems that might arise in the renewal process. To renew, we will need a "specimen" showing that the trademark is used on the goods described above. We have attached a screenshot from your website which we believe will be an acceptable specimen for renewal of all three registrations. Please let us know if you would like for us to proceed with renewing these registrations with the attached specimen. The Trademark Office renewal fee is $425 per registration ($1,275 total). If you have any questions, please let us know. Best regards, Anne Links: ------ [1] http://www.chesteklegal.com

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[REFERENDUM] Renewal of trademarks
by Bryce Harrington 04 Sep '18

04 Sep '18

A majority vote of the current board members is required for the following matter. Proposal: --------- - [ ] a. Authorize renewal of 3 trademarks for $1,275 - [ ] b. Other: _____________ Votes: ------ | Board Member | 1. | | -------------------- |:--:| | Bryce Harrington | | | Josh Andler | | | Tavmjong Bah | | | Ted Gould | | | Martin Owens | | | Marc Jeanmougin | | | Chris Rogers | | Resolution: ----------- Background: ----------- ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Hi all! I assume we want to renew all of these? Please let me know if the PLC authorizes the trademark office fees of $1,275 (we foot the lawyer time for renewals as we do with the initial stages of trademark defense). best, karen -------- Original Message -------- Subject: Renewal of Registrations for DRAW FREELY, INKSCAPE and Inkscape Logo Date: 2018-08-31 10:44 am From: Anne xxxxxxx To: legal@...41... Cc: Pamela xxxxxxx Re: Renewal of DRAW FREELY, INKSCAPE and Inkscape Logo Deadline: 25 Aug 2019 Dear Karen, Software Freedom Conservancy has previously registered the trademarks referenced below for use with goods in class 9: TRADEMARK REGISTRATION NUMBER REGISTRATION DATE CLASSES & GOODS (TABLE) DRAW FREELY. 3672956 25 Aug 2009 9 - Computer graphics software; Downloadable computer software for vector graphics editing INKSCAPE 3672917 25 Aug 2009 9 - Downloadable computer software for editing vector graphics INKSCAPE LOGO 3672907 25 Aug 2009 9 - Downloadable computer software for editing vector graphics The window for renewing these trademark registrations is now open. The renewals can be filed anytime between now and the final deadline of 25 Aug 2019, and there is also a six-month grace period for renewing. It is, however, our suggestion that you renew it as soon as possible, in order to have time to address any problems that might arise in the renewal process. To renew, we will need a "specimen" showing that the trademark is used on the goods described above. We have attached a screenshot from your website which we believe will be an acceptable specimen for renewal of all three registrations. Please let us know if you would like for us to proceed with renewing these registrations with the attached specimen. The Trademark Office renewal fee is $425 per registration ($1,275 total). If you have any questions, please let us know. Best regards, Anne Links: ------ [1] http://www.chesteklegal.com

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