February 2021 - Inkscape Board of Directors

Vote: Sponsorship Refactoring
by Martin Owens 11 Feb '21

11 Feb '21

Sponsorships Refactoring 2021 ============================= Proposal: --------- 1. Removal from our top sponsorship level of $10k the perk of having a footer link. * [ ] a. Yes, remove the footer reward * [ ] b. No, keep the footer reward * [ ] c. Something else, please specify. 2. The increase in our sponsorships, from 0.5k 2k, 5k 10k to 0.5k 2k 10k 20k * [ ] a. Yes, refactor the sponsorships as above. * [ ] b. No, leave the levels as they are now. * [ ] c. Yes, but use a different set of levels, please detail. 3. Maintain nofollow links for all our sponsorship links, but allow them on news articles. other pages: sponsors page, front page, footer etc * [ ] a. Yes, allow follow links on news articles only * [ ] b. Yes, allow follow links for all sponsorship links * [ ] c. No, don't allow follow links anywhere * [ ] d. Something else. Please specify Votes: ------ | Board Member | 1 | 2 | 3 | | -------------------- |:---:|:---:|:---:| | Josh Andler | | | | | Tavmjong Bah | | | | | Ted Gould | | | | | Martin Owens | | | | | Marc Jeanmougin | | | | | Chris Rogers | | | | Background ---------- A new sponsor is asking us for follow links and footer links in a pretty aggressive way. It seems like the project might be offering ourselves up for abuse by people who want search engine optimisation. RedHat have recently also sponsored us for $20k, this puts their sponsorship at twice our highest level, and it wasn't even a sweat for them. Sponsorship details: https://inkscape.org/support-us/sponsors/ Martin,

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Possible Trademark Infringement
by Martin Owens 09 Feb '21

09 Feb '21

Dear SFC Legal, A plurality of the board have decided that this should be passed back to the SFC for review. Author, CS Ratliff is attempting to create a social media site for creative people and has called it Inkscape. He's based in Ohio, USA and looks to be using a service to host the site. https://twitter.com/cs_ratliff/status/1357137318063308802 https://twitter.com/cs_ratliff/status/1357136576753659904 https://inkscape.mn.co/ This is likely to create confusion with our trademark in the graphics arena. Let us know what you think. Thanks for your help. Best Regards, Martin Owens Inkscape PLC Board

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Charter Discussion Meeting
by doctormo＠gmail.com 05 Feb '21

05 Feb '21

Dear Developers and Board, We're organising to have a video chat in 3 weeks time to discuss opening Inkscape up to allowing more contributors that just programmers to vote on board elections. Please attend if you are a team leader or if you are interested in how the project should certify contributions from all our different teams. Calendar entry: https://inkscape.org/cals/event/11/ ical: https://inkscape.org/*board/calendar.ics Best Regards, Martin Owens

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Board Meeting Today
by Tavmjong Bah 05 Feb '21

05 Feb '21

Reminder: Board meeting today! https://wiki.inkscape.org/wiki/index.php/Board_Meetings

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