August 2021 - Inkscape Board of Directors

VOTE: Farewell Gift for Bryce Harrington
by Ted Gould 04 Sep '21

04 Sep '21

Background Bryce Harrington is a co-founder of Inkscape who recently decided to step down from the board and limit his involvement in Inkscape. He contributed invaluable service to the Inkscape project over the time he was involved. In this vein the project would like to get him a token to say "Thank you" for his contributions. Ryan Gorley has volunteered to find a gift and get it to Bryce. Resolution Authorize a budget to Ryan Gorley to acquire an appropriate gift for Bryce Harrington. a. Authorize a budget of $600 b. Authorize a budget of $250 c. No budget d. Other (write in)

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Inkscape PLC Meeting this week
by Ted Gould 04 Sep '21

04 Sep '21

Howdy Folks, We have our monthly PLC meeting to go over items and get updates. I'll be this Friday at Noon Texas time, find the time in your locale here: https://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?iso=20210903T10&p1=202 Agenda items (mostly standing): https://wiki.inkscape.org/wiki/Leadership_Committee_Status_Updates#Working_… Everyone is invited to participate. Ted

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Vote2: Update Fiscal Sponsorship Agreement (FSA) with SFC
by Martin Owens 29 Aug '21

29 Aug '21

= Background = The first goal of the membership project is to change our Fiscal Sponsorship Agreement so that it points at a file that's easier to change than the existing AUTHORS file. The first vote to change to using a fixed website url was rejected by vote of the leadership comittee with no overall conesnsus, so this follow up vote is to attempt a change without the specific url. There are two main options that came from the previous vote, one is to publish the list on the website and the second is to not specify any particular place. = Current FSA Language = https://inkscape.org/en/gallery/item/9584/2015-09-12-Inkscape-FSA-2015-05.p… ``` Committee members (“Members”) shall be elected by the contributors to the Inkscape community, which is comprised solely of individuals listed in the Project’s AUTHORS file (“Inkscape Community”). ``` = Proposed New Language = ``` Committee members (“Members”) shall be elected by the contributors to the Inkscape community. The project shall keep a list of the contributors permitted to participate in that election process [two options available, see below]. ``` = Options = a. Change the FSA to use "... publicly available on its website" b. Change the FSA to say "... posted publicly" c. Do not change the FSA at this time. = Next Steps = On the advice of Karen, after this vote we will send the result and the new language to the SFC and they will help us with the next parts of the process to update the agreement. Thanks everyone! Best Regards, Martin Owens

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Vote: Update Fiscal Sponsorship Agreement (FSA) with SFC
by Martin Owens 26 Aug '21

26 Aug '21

Dear All, # Background This vote is a result of the leadership committee meeting on August 12th. The full video and chat recording of the meeting can be found at https://digimedia1.r2.enst.fr/b/ink-exm-ate for full context. Big thanks to Karen from the SFC for attending the meeting and giving us such good advice. The first goal of the membership project is to change our Fiscal Sponsorship Agreement so that it points at a file that's easier to change than the existing AUTHORS file. This is best done by using a fixed url which can then be populated by any list of people which we decide should count as members. To start this process, I have copied the existing AUTHORS file to the url https://inkscape.org/*membership/list.txt to keep this vote focused, any discussion of new mechanisms, or adding non-developers should be kept out of this email chain. But please come to the chat room and lets talk about it more. # Current FSA Language https://inkscape.org/en/gallery/item/9584/2015-09-12-Inkscape-FSA-2015-05.p… ``` Committee members (“Members”) shall be elected by the contributors to the Inkscape community, which is comprised solely of individuals listed in the Project’s AUTHORS file (“Inkscape Community”). ``` # Proposed New Language ``` Committee members (“Members”) shall be elected by the contributors to the Inkscape community, which is comprised solely of individuals listed in the Project’s membership list located at https://inkscape.org/*membership/list.txt (“Inkscape Community”). ``` # Options * [ ] Change the FSA to use the new membership list * [ ] Do not change the FSA to point to the new list * [ ] Do something else (different language etc) # Next Steps On the advice of Karen, after this vote we will send the result and the new language to the SFC and they will help us with the next parts of the process to update the agreement. Thanks everyone! Best Regards, Martin Owens

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Meeting Today
by doctormo＠gmail.com 12 Aug '21

12 Aug '21

Dear all, Our Leadership Committee meeting is today¹ and it would be great to have you attend. Each meeting will be recorded so people who can not come will be able to watch the discussion later. This meeting's focus is going to be on making sure we can include more people in the definition of "The Inkscape Community" for the purpose of voting. I've put together this agenda: 1. Moving the canonical membership list to the website 2. Requesting from the SFC a change in agreement to define this new list as the list of voting members. 3. The remaining time we can talk about the mechanisms by which people get added to the list (see continuation of previous discussions). I expect the second item will produce a vote which will be sent to the mailing list. But we'll see how the discussion goes. Thanks everyone! Best Regards, Martin Owens Inkscape Leadership Committee ¹ https://inkscape.org/cals/event/30/

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PLC Meeting this Thursday
by Martin Owens 09 Aug '21

09 Aug '21

Dear all, A remember that this Thursday we have a big blue button meeting. This month I'd like to have us decide on the membership problem. The question is: "How should we ask the SFC to change our agreement, to include all inkscape contributors" the goal for the meeting will be to put together the vote email which hopefully will be sent at the end of the meeting. Times and links: https://inkscape.org/cals/event/30/ Please do come if you'd like to be involved in the discussion of inkscape membership. Best Regards, Martin Owens

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Status Meeting Today
by Ted Gould 06 Aug '21

06 Aug '21

Hello Folks, Sorry, I just realized there's supposed to be a meeting today. I took a hastely planned family trip out of town before school starts (next Wed) and didn't notice it on the calendar. I'm happy if someone else runs the meeting, or I'm also happy to run it next week. I won't be able to make it. Sorry again for not emailing folks about this earlier. Ted

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