August 2022 - Inkscape Board of Directors

Fwd: Legal: Agreement to use Inkscape as a prop on a TV show (NZ)
by Martin Owens 23 May '23

23 May '23

(sent to wrong address in original CC)

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Inkscape PLC Meeting (Sept 2nd)
by Ted Gould 09 Sep '22

09 Sep '22

Hello Folks, We have a PLC meeting this Friday. Agenda is here: https://wiki.inkscape.org/wiki/Leadership_Committee_Status_Updates#Agenda Time in your timezone is here: https://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?iso=20220902T10&p1=202 You can find a calendar entry here: https://inkscape.org/*leadership-committee/calendar/ Everyone is invited, hope to see you there! Ted

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Monthly PLC Meeting
by Ted Gould 14 Aug '22

14 Aug '22

Howdy folks, We have our monthly PLC meeting this Friday (Aug 5) at the regular time on chat. You can figure that out in your timezone: https://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?iso=20220805T10&p1=202 The projected agenda: https://wiki.inkscape.org/wiki/Leadership_Committee_Status_Updates#Agenda Everyone is invited! Also, a special thanks to Maren who sent out the Vector's reminder and made me realize I had forgot to send this email. Ted

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VOTE: SFC Promotional Items
by Ted Gould 14 Aug '22

14 Aug '22

Background: The SFC participates in various Open Source conference and often has a booth. If they have a booth they'd like to have Inkscape promotional items in the booth (stickers, etc.) to help promote Inkscape. This helps the project in getting name recognition and representation at conferences that we're otherwise not attending. Previously we've done approvals on a per-event basis, which has worked, but thinking it makes more sense to approve this as an open item so the SFC can manage their inventory as needed. Proposal: a. Approve up to $300 for the SFC to purchase Inkscape promotional items. b. Approve a different amount of: ________ c. Do not approve any budget for promotional items Timeline: Opening: 2022-08-05 Closing: 2022-08-12 Ted

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VOTE: Formally Close Hiring Process
by Martin Owens 13 Aug '22

13 Aug '22

Dear board, The hiring committee has requested that the PLC formally vote on ending the hiring project. While they don't see the process continuing and we've talked casually in meetings about the process ending; we should conclude it with a vote so the hiring team can make needed announcements without any doubts. a. End the 2022 admin hiring process b. Do something else: Thanks everyone! Best Regards, Martin Owens

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Godot Company
by Martin Owens 10 Aug '22

10 Aug '22

Dear PLC & Devel, This is an interesting bit of news. Godot, which is a member of the Software freedom Conservancy, and one of their largest other projects have had their leadership set up a for profit company called w4 games. This is ostensibly to develop Godot further. "Our mission is to strengthen the open source Godot ecosystem by providing companies with the commercial products and services they need." - https://w4games.com/ This is interesting to us here I believe. One of the conflicts I have personally with the SFC is how constraining and limited the SFC are for many of the things that would allow Inkscape to grow, invite commercial partners, hire developers, pay mentors, fund marketing research and design. Material things that we currently patch together with very kind support for key volunteers, but should be more properly resourced. Has anyone here had thoughts about developing a commercial company to develop Inkscape? I'm going to be reaching out to the new Godot business as well as a few of their contacts to see what their thoughts are and see what I can learn and if we can copy them. Best Regards, Martin Owens

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