March 2025 - Inkscape Board of Directors

Vote: Create Steamworks account, authorize Direct Fee
by Jonathan Neuhauser 03 Apr '25

03 Apr '25

Dear Board, == Background == Since quite some time, Krita is available on Steam (https://store.steampowered.com/app/280680/Krita/). They are "selling" Krita there to support the project financially, while clearly stating in the description that everyone can download it for free on their website. Our developer working group member Vaibhav is looking into setting up something similar for Inkscape. For this, we need a Steamworks account. Apart from that, we've received a request for revenue sharing from a game developer who's using Inkscape for their in-game graphics. This also requires a Steamworks account. The onboarding steps for Steamworks are described here: https://partner.steamgames.com/doc/gettingstarted/onboarding In particular, there is paperwork needed (which we need the SFC for), and there is a one-time 100 USD "Direct Fee" for publishing a product on steam for the first time. This fee will be refunded once the product surpasses 1000 USD in revenue. (This is probably intended to avoid spam publications.) I've briefly brought up the topic with Tracy from the SFC today, and she suggested to go ahead with a vote to encourage a fast processing of the paperwork. ;) == Vote == Sign up for a SteamWorks account and allocate 100 USD for the direct fee. After the paperwork has been done by the SFC, Inkscape will be published on Steam at the discretion of the Developer WG / Release manager. a) Agree b) Disagree c) Other: ____ Best regards Jonathan

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VOTE: Update our trademark terms
by Ted Gould 03 Apr '25

03 Apr '25

Background There have been a few instances brought to the PLC of possible trademark infringements where it was borderline on whether those were violations of the trademark agreement we've posted. One of the biggest issues there was that it wan't clear that the icon was part of the agreement and restrictions on such. These changes attempt to make clear that the icon is also restricted. For reference the full document is available: https://inkscape.org/about/branding/ Action The proposal is to change the points under Section 2.2 from: > In addition, you may use the Marks to refer to products, services, or communities outside of the Inkscape software and Inkscape Project without written permission in the following contexts: > When referring to Inkscape software that is not substantially unmodified, to say that the such software is a "derivative of" or "based on" Inkscape. > When referring to communities of users in the context of their use of the Inkscape software, e.g., virtual communities, community-moderated online forums, consortia of organizational users, etc., provided that the Marks are not used to suggest endorsement of any user community by the Inkscape Project. To the following: > In addition, you may use certain of the Marks to refer to products, services, or communities outside of the Inkscape software and Inkscape Project without written permission in the following contexts: > When referring to Inkscape software that is not substantially unmodified, you may use the term "Inkscape" only (and not any other Mark, such as the Inkscape Logo) to accurately describe the relationship of such software to official Inkscape software, such as to say it is a "derivative of" or "based on" official Inkscape software. > When referring to communities of users in the context of their use of the Inkscape software, e.g., virtual communities, community-moderated online forums, consortia of organizational users, etc., you may use the term "Inkscape," the term "Inkscapers," and the Inkscape Logo, provided that such Marks are not used to suggest endorsement of any user community by the Inkscape Project. Timeline Please post a vote to this list by March 24th, 2025 Votes A. Accept the changes as proposed B. Changes, but also: _________ C. Do not change Thank you for your consideration, Ted

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Inkscape Developer Meeting, March 31st 2025
by Martin Owens 31 Mar '25

31 Mar '25

Dear Developers, Attending: Martin, Marc, Jonathan, Mikekov, Ishann, Itlnx Event: https://inkscape.org/cals/event/1/ Marc: created and uploaded 1.4.1 binaries and has been investigating issues with the various builds and adding in translations. Jonathan: updated extensions for the release and released on pypi. Working on AI import. Some of the designs internally to AI have some really weird design choices. Martin: Bugfix Accelerator work + investigation of Windows slowness. Some discussion with Mike about Pattern editing architecture. Helped with the AI importer work with a PDFBones library for opening pdf files based on pdf Mikekov has been working on the Gtk Window preview editor. A separate project to see glade files and edit them a little bit. Hopes to get back to Inkscape work soon. SVG W3C held a meeting and we didn't know until after they had met about trying to revive interest in supporting SVG. Itlnx has been working on translations, fixing various small issues with the translation strings in the software. Needs to access read the docs account and will be following up with Maren to find out how to do that. Also helped with the release making a graphic for the website. Next meeting is April 8th and is at the earlier time. Thanks everyone for coming and helping with the 1.4.1 release! Best Regards, Martin Owens

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Fwd: [Contact] Potential support from Steam games
by Ted Gould 10 Mar '25

10 Mar '25

Hey folks, This came in to the contact list and seems like it might be a good idea. Anyone have experience with this? Ted ---------- Forwarded Message --------- From: Sweetlads <admin(a)sweetlads.com> Subject: [Contact] Potential support from Steam games Date: Mar 9 2025, at 12:55 pm To: contact <contact(a)inkscape.org> Hi there, I intend to utilise Inkscape as a tool to help the community create assets for my game via Steam Community Workshop. The amazing thing about the Steam Community Workshop is it allows developers to share revenue earnt from items submitted into the game with both the creator of the item and the software they use. The revenue shared with the software comes out of Steams cut and does not subtract from the creators efforts. In order for Steam to share this revenue, I require a 64 bit Steam ID to link Inkscape's account with my game. I understand this may come with a bit of upfront effort, so allow me to add some context into the potential value from games supporting you this way. The largest game utilising the steam community workshop is Counterstrike with a market cap of $4.6 billion. Creators earn on average $430,000 per contribution (as small as a weapon skin). Earning just a small percentage of this per designer could add up! Thanks again for your tool, and hope I can support you in the near future! _______________________________________________ Contact mailing list -- contact(a)lists.inkscape.org To unsubscribe send an email to contact-leave(a)lists.inkscape.org

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Developer Meeting for March 7th 2025
by Martin Owens 07 Mar '25

07 Mar '25

Developer Meeting Mar 7, 2025 Event: https://inkscape.org/cals/event/64/ Attendees: Martin, Ishaan, Mike, Willy, Jonathan, Elendil, Marc, Tav Next meeting: https://inkscape.org/cals/event/1/ Martin: Started working on the Bugfix accelerator program. Contracts are signed. Many open, high-priority issues are on Windows and MacOS. Mike has been working on dissecting his mega MR, got stuck on in-gamut functionality which he now thinks should be undone. Some color discussion between Martin and Mike. Mike is also experimenting with writing a Viewer for ui files. Jonathan has been organsing the Nuemburg event. There was some organisation needed for the hotel, getting a place with single rooms but people had already booked a room in a hotel. Also worked on the extension event sync system. Asked about 1.4.1 extensions and Marc said that updates should be in place before the Gtl new version is available for windows. Marc worked on the 1.4.1 release candidate installers. Worked on the capypdf building for windows Martin and Jonathan report capypdf build files appering in the source folder. Willy worked on the documentation on the dev said and has been looking at a Korean translation. Asked about getting extensions written in python which work like the python extensions in Blender. Martin gave a description ofhow the current extensions work and why it can't be changed into a blender like system. A new system would have to be wirtten. Tav started working on fixing bugs, two down and 2 being worked on. Jabier has a fix for one of them but the fix has to be understood more. There is some complexity in the node tracking system. We all want to talk about the LPE code in Nuerumburg. How we can refactor it into a healthy place would be on the table. Elendil has been working on the 1.4.1 release notes. There some things missing so far. Also working on the bug accelerator program, currently looking at a crash on clones when closing Inkscape. Tav, Martin and Elendl will meet on wednesday at 10am EST. Jonathan and Isshann talked about visa situations. Thanks everyone for coming! See you next time. Martin,

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