April 2021 - Inkscape Board of Directors

Potential change of venue for Board meetings
by C R 30 Apr '21

30 Apr '21

Hey folks. In order to collect discussions that are related to Inkscape's internal processes, ethics and policies, we've been kinking the idea around for a RocketChat Channel #board_room, which will be a place to house not only our board meetings, but also conversations that need the board's attention. Reasoning for this is: 1. To make it easy for board members to see conversation which is relevant to decisions the board will have to make, all in one place. 2. To keep the #team_devel channel for code development matters. 3. To keep other channels such as #team_vectors uncluttered 4. To allow project members who wish to participate in the discussion a place where their points are likely to be seen by board members (to reduce having to explain nuanced conversation again) Thus this new channel will be a digest for board members to scan through and see board-related matters before and after board meetings. This room would be open to everyone in the project just as board meetings have always been. Thoughts?

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School System NDPA followup
by Martin Owens 29 Apr '21

29 Apr '21

Hi everyone, This is just a resource link, this database was shared with me and which schools are looking at inkscape with regard to their state's NDPA: https://sdpc.a4l.org/search_company_national.php?company_name=Inkscape&stat… No action is needed. But we can have some insight. Best Regards, Martin Owens

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New contribution/funding pages
by Martin Owens 18 Apr '21

18 Apr '21

Dear board, I've put together the pages which are linked from our new welcome screen. They are there to encourage more of our users to contribute to the project and know how they might be able to make Inkscape better. The first is the contribute time page: https://inkscape.org/splash/contribute/ The second is the funding page: https://inkscape.org/splash/support/ The funding page links to a new supporting programmers page: https://inkscape.org/support-us/programmers/ I've tried to encapsulate where we are as a project on funding developers and what advice we've been given from the SFC. While it makes me sad that we can't seem to fund developers directly or event give links to users who want to fund developers, I understand the reasons. Since this is an important topic I'd like for the board to review the pages, and the wording. Once I've got the pages to a place where everything is satisfied, I'll send the SFC an FYI email with the links so they know what we're saying about funding. Does this seem like a reasonable plan? Best Regards, Martin Owens

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Board Meeting Delayed until Apr 9th
by Ted Gould 01 Apr '21

01 Apr '21

Howdy Folks, Asked in chat if we wanted to delay because it's Easter Holiday for much of Europe — didn't get many responses so I'm taking that as "we're already gone." Let's move the meeting to April 9th. Those who have the day off work, enjoy it! Ted

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