February 2022 - Inkscape Board of Directors

VOTE: hardware 2FA for project sensitive access
by Marc Jeanmougin 01 Jul '22

01 Jul '22

Dear leadership committee, Your attention is required to vote on the following matters: Background: Some contributors have, or need to have, access to social media accounts to post on the behalf of the project, or to infrastructure accounts, most importantly gitlab. For computer security, we would like to protect those accesses with a safe 2FA method, and the safest method to avoid impersonation and phishing attacks is a 2FA hardware token with FIDO2 or U2F. Then we would be able to set a policy to enforce 2fa when contributors need access to passwords that would be shared on nextcloud, or to contributors with "owner" access to gitlab projects. The most common such token is the Yubikey (45€/$ a piece+10 tax+5shipping) but there are equivalents with open hardware component and open source software (e.g. solokeys at 35€/$ incl. tax +5€ shipping, or nitrokey ). As for the amount of people, the vectors team has around 10-15 people with some level of access to passwords of the project, 4 people do not have 2FA and have "owner" access to the whole gitlab project, + 2 "maintainer" access to inkscape/inkscape (and more in other sub-projects). We also have the possibility to offer it to all regular contributors for whom it would be useful. It is yet to be seen whether we could have a discount by asking, or if there is a way to pay for the whole order and get a single reimbursement instead of reimbursing individual contributors Ballot: a. Reimburse up to 2000 USD for password and project protection, and also offering it to contributors who have been in the project for more than a year and ask for it (implies support for option b) b. Reimburse up to 1000 USD to protect the project's passwords on nextcloud and gitlab project access (only contributors who have access to nextcloud, and gitlab maintainer or owner access) c. Do not do it d. Other (please specify) Thanks! -- Marc

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VOTE: budget for mentors
by Marc Jeanmougin 06 May '22

06 May '22

Dear leadership committee, Your attention is required to vote on the following matters: Background: Every year, we participate in GSoC, sometimes Outreachy, with a few community members mentoring new contributors. This mentoring task takes time and efforts, and offering support for potential mentors may help them dedicate more time to it, and may help in the long run to have a more diverse pool of mentors. In addition, the project gets a "project stipend" from Google of 500$, so I'm suggesting to take from this amount with 20% still for the project general funds. Ballot: a. Offer people who mentor students the possibility to ask for a stipend of up to 400$ for the 2022 mentoring season b. Do not do it c. Other (please specify) Thanks! -- Marc

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Inkscape 1.1.2 and Inkscape 1.2-alpha released
by Marc Jeanmougin 06 Apr '22

06 Apr '22

Inkscape 1.1.2 ============== Inkscape 1.1.2 is now released. You can download it at: https://inkscape.org/release/inkscape-1.1.2/ then, if you want to support Inkscape, donate to the project at: https://inkscape.org/support-us/ ---------------- Inkscape 1.1.2 is mainly a stability and bugfix release. It fixes numerous crashes and several major inconveniences, such as lost styling when when converting text to path, or relative position of clones pasted into a new document ---------------- In addition, we are releasing an alpha version of Inkscape 1.2, to facilitate testing of major upcoming features, such as the multipage support, editable markers, on-canvas alignment, revamped alignment and snapping options, layer and objects dialog, etc. If you find any issue with this new version, please report it tohttps://inkscape.org/report You can download it at https://inkscape.org/release/1.2alpha0/ ----------------------------- Join an Inkscape project team ----------------------------- Inkscape is always happy to welcome new contributors in various areas: code, docs, translation, UX, bug triaging, or even outreach! The main ways to get involved are listed onhttps://inkscape.org/contribute/ and you can get in touch with us onhttps://chat.inkscape.org/ Thanks to everyone involved in this release! -- The Inkscape team

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PLC Meeting this week!
by Ted Gould 05 Mar '22

05 Mar '22

Hello Inkscapers! We have a PLC meeting this Friday to catch-up on all the fun things happening. Agenda is here: https://wiki.inkscape.org/wiki/Leadership_Committee_Status_Updates#Agenda (https://link.getmailspring.com/link/09C5E804-8AB2-44D1-AB35-048397A21AB5@ge…) Time is Noon US Central Time on Friday March 4th. You can convert that here: https://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?iso=20220304T10&p1=202 (https://link.getmailspring.com/link/09C5E804-8AB2-44D1-AB35-048397A21AB5@ge…) Everyone is invited, hope to see you there! Ted

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PLC Meeting this Friday (2022/2/4)
by Ted Gould 05 Mar '22

05 Mar '22

Howdy Folks, We have a PLC meeting this Friday at Noon Texas time. Agenda is updated here: https://wiki.inkscape.org/wiki/Leadership_Committee_Status_Updates And you can find the time for you locally here: https://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?iso=20220204T10&p1=202 Everyone is invited to join in, hope to see you there! Ted

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VOTE: Adjust FSA address
by Ted Gould 05 Mar '22

05 Mar '22

Background We voted to remove Bryce's address from our FSA and when we sent that to the SFC they responded that an address was required. Apparently the address is used as a means of last resort if they can not in any way contact the project. Upon discussion Marc has volunteered to use his university address for this address. It would mean that, if for what ever reason the project disappeared, the SFC would look towards Marc to transfer everything associated with the project. Proposal Replace the Bryce Harrington's address in the preamble of the FSA with the following address: Marc Jeanmougin Télécom Paris 19, place Marguerite Perey 91123 Palaiseau Cedex France Votes a. Replace Byrce's address with Marc's b. Keep Bryce's address c. Replace with something else: _______ Timeline Hoping to close this vote when everyone has voted or by Friday Feb. 18, which ever comes first.

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Vote: Hire Project Coordinator
by Martin Owens 20 Feb '22

20 Feb '22

Dear Inkscape Leadership Committee, Your attention is required for the following vote. Following our meetings with the SFC we have concluded the final job description and the hiring process details. A big thank you to everyone who has put so much time in this long process. - Background - The final documents are attached as a PDF. The first is our internal notes condensed for review. The second is the full process for hiring worked out with the SFC and the final part is the actual job description to be sent to the SFC for advertising. A small about of the budget has been set aside for any SFC administration costs. The job salary is $30-$45k while the budget is $50k for the full year. - Vote - a. Send the Job Description and confirm the budget of $50k for the full year contract. b. Do not hire a project coordinator This vote will be open until Friday Feburary 18th 2022. Please get your vote in before or on that date. Thanks everyone. Let's move the project forwards!

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