February 2023 - 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

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Mentor stipends - 2023
by tavmjong＠free.fr 17 Mar '23

17 Mar '23

2023 GSoC mentor stipends. 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$, this proposal keeps 20% for the project general funds (matching what we did in 2022). Proposal: [ ] a. Offer people who mentor students the possibility to ask for a stipend of up to 400$ for the 2023 mentoring season [ ] b. Do not do it [ ] c. Other (please specify) Timeline Proposed 2023-02-03 Closes 2023-02-10 Tav

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VOTE: Funding for Bug Mugs
by C R 01 Mar '23

01 Mar '23

Hey folks! As we wrap up the Bug Migration Game, we'd like to reward our bug movers and people involved with making/running/promoting the game with a bug mug. I'd like approval for (up to) £200 in funds for sending these out to people, though it may wind up being less depending on what deals I can get. This includes cost of ordering them and shipping them out to people. I've attached a mockup of the bug mugs, in case you haven't seen them yet: The vote is for up to £200 in mug and shipping costs. Vote is for 1 week, as is tradition, but would appreciate votes before that to help move things along. Yay: Fund bug mugs for volunteers Nay: Do not fund bug mugs for volunteers Thanks!

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Developer Meeting notes for Feb 22nd 2023
by Martin Owens 22 Feb '23

22 Feb '23

Attending: Marc, Martin, NPJ, Nicco, Johnathan, René, pbs, Mikekov The next developer meeting is 2nd March 2023: https://inkscape.org/cals/event/1/ ---- How the bug accelerator program is going (Martin) Bug list for 1.3 is being used https://gitlab.com/groups/inkscape/-/milestones/11 developer should add the milestone 1.3 if they want issues to be in the mix. The advantage is that this list provides a sorted and updated list and so the blocker issue has been closed and instead people should mark issues as blocker using the tag. Lots of bugs fixed and lots of merge requests are now open waiting for review. When Rafael becomes available merge requests will have a reviewer to move code faster. On the effectiveness side; Martin says other paid contracts have been re-scheduled so time is available to work on Inkscape issues, so it's functioning as intended to create time for inkscape at this early stage. Though this is a self-reported data point. A new blog is available to contributors. This will be used to report on work done in the bug accelerator program, but can be used by other contributors if they want to talk about their work and have it available on the inkscape website. Please contact the web admin for access. ---- The recent Cairo rendering failure is related to Marc's dithering patch. It was suspected that it was just related to using an updated version of cairo, but the patch itself is implicated and Marc things it's becuse of the way the dithering code throws an error which pbs says will cause the whole rendering stack to then reject any other rendering instructions. ---- A Pango problem that has appeared is an upstream issue with the fontconfig backend. To fix this the version is restricted to 1.50.11 for all builds and the windows build is pinned to 1.50.11 for now. The issue has been reported to upstream although they say they can't guarentee a fix. ---- A version suffix was added to inkscape's library file (*.so, *.dll etc) this allows the library file to be placed in predictable places and should make it easier to create C++ extensions which can link against the Inkscape library of a specific version despite not having a stable API. Getting these library files into the right system directories to make them useful is a possible task, as well as providing header files or a -dev type package to allow developers to work without building the entire of inkscape first. - This causes a problem for macOS builds that didn't expect the version to be there. but René is working on a packaging fix. ---- Mikekov is working on a few features and improvements, mostly UI related fixes. A new milestone has been created by Marc so anything that we don't expect to make it into 1.3 can be tagged for the next release and not merged by accident before the branching date. Marc asks if the font collections feature is ready? It needs to be rebuilt, but looks to have problems and may need to be posponed. The original developer may also not be available. --- What kind of plan should we have for Gtk4 migration? After the 1.3 branch (or release) we will allow much more riskier code merges that progress us towards Gtk4 support. So master is expected to break more often, but we want to make sure Inkscape compiles so any changes will still be expected to compile even if they cause large bugs. Having this high risk development policy after the release is most ideal and sets expectations in the whole developer team about what we need to be focusing on. Jonathon is creating a paid contract to hiring people to work on the Gtk4 transition, please join him on rocket chat to look at the proposal draft and see what kind of paid work we need to ask for in order to push hard on getting Gtk4 transition done with the smallest amount of disruption it's possible to have in our development cycle. ---- We were concerned that Nicco had not recieved the contract for the AI importer work. But Nicco was available at the meeting and has recieved the contract. Next is signing it and sending back to the SFC, and Johnathan is organising a date to do onboarding with Martin. ---- The Hackfest is coming up very shortly. There's ongoing discussions with the SFC and René regarding paying for the venue costs upfront so the particpants won't have to pay the large fees that will be due at the end. We are told Karren was unavailable so there may be some delays reviewing the venue contract and sorting out the payment. Though we do want to make sure this happens because we don't have a lot of time now. ---- We are accepted into the GSoC program, number of applicants isn't set yet. You may advertise about our particpation in GSoc 2023, and please make sure to update the list of projects on the wiki https://wiki.inkscape.org/wiki/Google_Summer_of_Code ---- We looked at three of the oldest merge requests as part of our regular end of meeting activity: One was assigned to Adam (sorry adam!), two were closed as out of date. Thanks for coming everyone! Best Regards, Martin Owens

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URGENT VOTE: INKSCAPE STICKERS & BUSINESS CARDS for Hackfest (and other events).
by C R 17 Feb '23

17 Feb '23

Hey everyone! We need moar stickers! These are both for the hackfest stickers, and for the stickers for SFC and Inkscape reps attending conferences to hand out. We'd also like another set of business cards with the hotkeys on the back. The SFC will be paying for these directly and shipping them out to Rene to distribute at the hackfest, so we need votes asap! 500 Cards: £44.47 2000 Inkscape Stickers: £133.40 1000 Hackfest Stickers: £30.00 Shipping: £30 Total: £237.87 Additional shipping may be required to send out hackfest stickers, so approval for up to £100.00 extra to reimburse for shipping stuff out to folks. Total incl shipping (up to) £337.87 Vote: A. Fund stickers and cards B. Do not fund stickers and cards Thanks! -C

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VOTE: Mastodon.art funding
by Ted Gould 16 Feb '23

16 Feb '23

Background Inkscape currently has a Mastodon account on the mastodon.art server. It is an art focused Mastodon instance that has a wide variety of artists, but also allows anyone on the greater Fediverse to see the content Inkscape posts. The service is run by a set of volunteers that have a Patreon-style set-up to cover their costs of hosting, and other things that the project needs. This is their only source of funding (they don't sell ads, etc). Many users contribute to that as the "cost" of having an account on the service. Inkscape has not previously contributed to this service. There is unfortunately very little precedent on how much a social network account should cost. Most major networks are venture or ad supported and give out the accounts for zero-cost. Though it seems likely in the future Twitter will be charging $8/mo if you want your posts to be seen. No one is distinguishing between user or project account, though it is likely their costs are different based on volume. The mastodon.art service has a few ways to contribute, I'll work with them to figure out which is best to ensure they can use the funds at the lowest fee and is easy for the SFC to work with. All amounts are monthly for the 2023 calendar year. Marking each of the votes with "or less" and I'll take the highest amount that gets a simple majority. Please use the "Other" option if that's not how you'd like it to work. Proposal Vote to fund Mastondon.art for the following amount monthly for the 2023 calendar year a. $5/mo for a total of $60 for 2023 b. $10/mo for a total of $120 for 2023, or less c. $20/mo for a total of $240 for 2023, or less d. $__/mo for a total of $___ for 2023, or less e. None f. Other: ____ Timeline Proposed: 2022-12-11 Closes: 2022-12-18

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VOTE: Mac Hardware reimbursement for RdH
by C R 14 Feb '23

14 Feb '23

RdH has requested reimbursement for the project to pay for his new Mac Mini, which is necessary for him to develop Inkscape's Arm chip releases. This is crucial to MacOS development on their desktops and laptops now and into the future. Please vote: 1. Reimburse RdH the entire amount: 2,584 € 2. Something else. -C

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VOTE: OSU OSL Donation
by Ted Gould 06 Feb '23

06 Feb '23

Background For our webserver and other online services we rely on OSU's Open Source Lab to run the physical servers. They offer this for free to Open Source projects, but in the past we've made donations when we could to help support their project. For example: * https://alpha.inkscape.org/board/referendums/resolutions/2014_osuosl_donati… * https://alpha.inkscape.org/board/referendums/resolutions/2015_osuosl_donati… In the past, we've donated $200. We've grown. Inflation has happened. That is probably not the amount we'd want to give today. Martin reported that the webserver alone is a decent sized machine: https://alpha.inkscape.org/board/meetings/transcripts/2023-01-06.log.html#t… And if you look at the Linode calculator I think if we just used Linode that would cost ~$20-$30/mo. https://cloud-estimator.linode.com/s/ I've structured the voting similar to how it was done for the Mastodon donation vote so that hopefully provides flexibility for folks without requiring multiple votes. Pono has said that the SFC can handle the contribution to OSU OSL along with other donations from SFC projects, so he will execute the donation for us. https://alpha.inkscape.org/board/meetings/transcripts/2023-01-06.log.html#t… Proposal Donate the following amount to OSU OSL: - a. equiv. $20/mo for a total of $240 - b. equiv. $30/mo for a total of $360, or less - c. equiv. $40/mo for a total of $480, or less - d. $__/mo for a total of $___ , or less - e. None - f. Other: ____ Timeline Proposed: 2023-01-11 Closes: 2023-01-18 Ted

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Inkscape PLC Meeting (Feb 3, 2023)
by Ted Gould 05 Feb '23

05 Feb '23

Howdy folks, We have a PLC meeting this Friday, Feb 3rd for anyone who'd like to join in. Details are on the wikipage: https://wiki.inkscape.org/wiki/Leadership_Committee_Status_Updates You can adjust the time to meet your timezone: https://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?iso=20230203T10&p1=202 Hope to see everyone there! Lots to talk about! Ted

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VOTE: expand Hackfest to 11 participants
by René de Hesselle 04 Feb '23

04 Feb '23

Background The Hackfest 2023 in Bensberg was planned for 10 participants. While it looked like we couldn’t fill those 10 slots for most of the time, we suddenly have the opportunity to expand to an 11th participant. The attendees would then be comprised of 9 long standing contributors and 2 promising newcomers. It goes without saying that this addition has been carefully considered in the best interests of the project (this is not a vacation). This would increase the total event cost (excl. travel) from 9,770 € to 10,607 €. You have previously voted on a budget up to 10,000 € which we would now exceed. If the numbers above only look vaguely familiar, take a look at the updated calculation on the bottom of this page: https://wiki.inkscape.org/wiki/Hackfest2023_Bensberg It is now precise and does not contain an ominous „buffer“. Full disclosure: even in the event that you approve an 11th participant there is the possibility that our hosts cannot make it happen. (But at least we tried.) Proposal Increase the Hackfest budget (excl. travel) to 10,607 € to cover for an 11th participant: - a. Yes - b. No Timeline Proposed: 2023-02-04 Closes: 2023-02-09 Apologies for the inconvenience of not giving you one full week for this vote. If you cannot manage to close the vote until the deadline, the vote will automatically fail and default to "No" as in accordance to standing decisions regarding the Hackfest. Thank you. René

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