December 2021 - Inkscape Board of Directors

VOTE: Release Video Budget
by Martin Owens 04 Jan '22

04 Jan '22

Dear Leadership Committee, You attention is required to vote on funding for the Inkscape 1.2 release video for 2022. As previously mentioned in our budget meeting, we have in our project a well respected video creator who makes videos for Gnome, the SFC and has made two previous Inkscape release videos and who needs funding for their work in the coming year. Background: We as a project benefit from having a good looking and timely release video and this funding will enable our contributor, Chris Rogers, to spend the needed time without overwork. Videos for reference: 1.1 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NlS0zKXsdvo 1.0 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f6UHXkND4Sc Gnome: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ae2D4aWTsXM GUADEC Talk: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I9e0cyrryRY Conflict of Interest: * Chris Rogers is a member of this committee and will not be able to vote on this measure as a matter of conflict of interest. Ballot: 1. Spend $2,500 on a release video for Inkscape 1.2 2. Do not spend any money on a release video 3. Something else... Thanks everyone. Best Regards, Martin Owens

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Hiring a project manager.
by tavmjong＠free.fr 22 Dec '21

22 Dec '21

Hi all, We had a good discussion about hiring a project administrator/manager at yesterday's PLC video meeting. A recording of the meeting can be found at: https://digimedia1.r2.enst.fr/playback/presentation/2.3/80b082be7c60e7a1fd9… We've prepared a document describing what we expect an administrator to do and are asking for community feedback. We'll also ask other OpenSource projects to review the document to give us feedback based on their experiences. That document can be found at: https://office.inkscape.org/nextcloud/index.php/apps/files/?dir=/&openfile=… The document should be editable so you can directly comment on it. Tav

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Budget December Meeting 2021
by Martin Owens 19 Dec '21

19 Dec '21

Dear PLC, Thank you to everyone who came to the budget meeting yesterday. It was quite a busy and intense discussion, even for this high level overview meeting. Big thanks to pono from the SFC for assisting and giving us some solid information. Attendees: Tav, Marc, Chris, Josh, Martin, René, Jabier, Ishaan, Pono Meeting Chair: Martin The video meeting is recorded here: https://digimedia1.r2.enst.fr/playback/presentation/2.3/80b082be7c60e7a1fd9… 1 hour 12 minutes We've set a budget of between $80k and $175k for 2022. We expect to spend at least $80k and the feeling was that it's time for us to stop growing our hoard of money and start spending it. The project has many needs, which we currently ask volunteers to do. But many of these tasks are things we need and shouldn't depend on waiting for volunteers, so the basic principle was put forward that "if the project is asking for the work to be done, then the project should be paying for it." This was used a guideline to find items we should be budgeting for. Attached you will find the earmarks that we created for each section of the budget. There are some notes: 1. The release manager stipend isn't currently needed, Marc's employer is kindly covering this expense and it's noted here in case we need to have this item in consideration for future budgets. 2. We have one Outreachy internship unused from last cycle, this coming year we will likely only need at most one more. This earmark should cover that. 3. We lack a documentation lead, or any contributor able to step up and look after documentation. If there's anyone you can remember from the past who'd be interested in getting involved, we've earmarked a small budget to help with costs for that area should we need it. Each of the items require another meeting to discuss their details further. This is especially true of the two big ticket items for the admin and the developer budget. Please do come to these meetings, which will be help via video again and recorded for transparency. Dates are attached. Again, a big thank you to everyone. Taking our budgeting responsibilities seriously has been a high priority for us in the leadership committee and it's great to finally feel like we are starting to see the wheels move. Best Regards, Martin Owens

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Inkscape PLC Meeting
by Ted Gould 10 Dec '21

10 Dec '21

Howdy folks, I forgot to send out a reminder, hopefully folks have it on their calendar, but it is the first Friday. I've updated the Wiki to show that. https://wiki.inkscape.org/wiki/Leadership_Committee_Status_Updates Everyone is invited to come. Ted

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RFC: Budget for 2022
by Ted Gould 07 Dec '21

07 Dec '21

Howdy folks, So I think we should really have a budget, even if we don't follow it 100%, just a good practice and idea. We basically stopped doing it in 2018. My idea is to put something very high level and simple together, nothing exciting mostly just our regular stuff (for instance we can still vote for one-off things here an there, etc.). But I do want us to feel like we have a plan and instead of financial reports just being numbers be related to something. My goal is to have something we can vote on by the end of the calendar year. If you've got ideas, please reply to this thread or ping me on chat sometime. Ted

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Inkscape PLC Meeting (moved to Nov 12, 2021)
by Ted Gould 03 Dec '21

03 Dec '21

Howdy folks, I am late getting out this notice and folks in the chat mentioned it'd be easier for everyone if we shifted the normal meeting back a week. So we're planning on having it Nov 12, 2021 and high noon Texas time. I think this gets is out of the confusing week where everyone is on different daylight savings time as well. Timezone tool: https://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?iso=20211112T10&p1=202 Wiki page: https://wiki.inkscape.org/wiki/Leadership_Committee_Status_Updates I'll note that we have a few votes outstanding and if all board members could look and make sure you voted that would be helpful. I hope to do an audit on those tonight or tomorrow and it's a lot easier if all the votes are in! Otherwise you'll be shamed at the meeting 😉 Ted

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VOTE: Apple Developer Renewal
by Ted Gould 03 Dec '21

03 Dec '21

Background: ----------- René de Hesselle (RdH) has been preparing our OSX builds for a while, to do that he needs to be able to sign them with an Apple Developer Account. We have reimbursed him last year for this account so that he could continue to sign builds for Inkscape. This is to renew that account so he can continue to sign OSX builds. Proposal: --------- Reimburse RdH for the membership renewal expenses for Apple's developer program. This is estimated to cost 99€. Votes: ------ a. Reimburse RdH for the program b. No, cease participation in Apple's Developer Program c. Other: ________

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Developer hardware support
by tavmjong＠free.fr 01 Dec '21

01 Dec '21

Hi all, I would like to raise the topic of getting hardware into developer's hands. I'm really not sure the best way to do this (or if we should). My motivation is the frustration I'm having with not knowing if I am breaking the our MacOSX code with the refactoring I am doing... and when I do get reports of breakage, not being able to fix it (it's currently broken now!). A little research shows that a 2018 Mac Mini can be had for around $1000. Given our current financial state, that would see like a reasonable investment. I could imagine though, coming up with a policy of what kind of support is given to who could be quite a challenge. Tav

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