- Inkscape Board of Directors

PLC Meeting conflict
by Ted Gould 31 May '22

31 May '22

Hello Folks, For the scout campout that I'm helping drive to next weekend they've decided to leave early to try and avoid traffic in Dallas. That'll mean leaving before the PLC meeting. While pulling over with a car full of 12 year olds and having a board meeting sounds like fun, I think I'm not going to make it. If someone else wants to lead the meeting we can do that. Or I'm happy to reschedule for a week later (June 10th) and just do it then. Sorry for the conflict. Ted

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Inkscape 1.2 released !
by Marc Jeanmougin 16 May '22

16 May '22

================ = Inkscape 1.2 = ================ Thanks to all the work from our community, we are proud to announce that Inkscape version 1.2 is now released. ---------------- You can find out about the new features, and watch our showcase at: https://inkscape.org/news/2022/05/16/inkscape-12/ and download it for your platform on: https://inkscape.org/release/inkscape-1.2/ then, if you want to support Inkscape, donate to the project at https://inkscape.org/support-us/ ---------------- Inkscape 1.2 is the latest major release of Inkscape, following one year of development after the 1.1 major release. The highlights of this release are: * Inkscape documents can now hold multiple pages, which are managed by the new Page tool * Editable markers and dash patterns * Layers and objects dialog merged * On-canvas alignment snapping and Snap settings redesign * New 'Tiling' Live Path Effect * Redesigned Export dialog with preview and ability to select objects/layers/pages and even multiple file formats to export to * Import SVG images from Open Clipart, Wikimedia Commons and other online sources * Selectable object origin for numerical scaling and moving * All alignment options in a single dialog * Gradient editing in the Fill and Stroke dialog * Gradient dithering * SVG Font Editor updated * Flowing text around shapes and text padding * Convenience Boolean operation for splitting paths * Configurable Tool bar, continuous icon scaling and many more new customization options * Performance gains for many parts of the interface and many different functions * Lots of improvements to the user interface * Numerous crash & bug fixes in the main Inkscape program and in in the stock extensions We also introduced a long list of new features outlined in detail and illustrated at https://media.inkscape.org/media/doc/release_notes/1.2/Inkscape_1.2.html . ----------------------------- Join an Inkscape project team ----------------------------- Inkscape is always happy to welcome new contributors in various areas: code[1], translation[2], UX[3], bug triaging[4], or even outreach[5]! The main ways to get involved are listed onhttps://inkscape.org/contribute/ The preferred points of contact are: [1] https://lists.inkscape.org/postorius/lists/inkscape-devel.lists.inkscape.or… +https://chat.inkscape.org/channel/team_devel (or libera.chat/#inkscape-devel) [2]https://chat.inkscape.org/channel/team_translation [3]https://chat.inkscape.org/channel/team_ux [4]https://chat.inkscape.org/channel/bug_migration [5]https://chat.inkscape.org/channel/team_vectors A warm thanks to everyone involved in making this release possible! -- The Inkscape team

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Video Meeting Today
by doctormo＠gmail.com 12 May '22

12 May '22

Hi Everyone, Today we'll be looking at two topics. Our hiring project which is much delayed and incomplete and our video project which has been completed. I'm hoping pono will be available for the first, Chris you can come talk about how the video went if you're available. Details: https://inkscape.org/cals/event/30/ Video Link: https://digimedia1.r2.enst.fr/b/ink-exm-ate Time: 1PM Boston Time / 17:00 UTC Thanks everyone. Martin Owens

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VOTE: Reimburse Martin for video music fee
by C R 08 May '22

08 May '22

Hey folks. This is just a quickie ask to reimburse Martin for footing the music license fee for our current release video. This is a one-time cost, and not setting any precedent for future video costs, or otherwise. Those in the video discussion on GitLab wanted a more permissive license for the new video music which would allow us to upload it with the video assets, so they can be used freely under CC-BY-SA. The decision was made in haste because the author of the music is going on holiday and needs the money now, and our release is only days away. There are lots of things we can do to prevent this in the future, but that's quite beside the point imho. This is an accidental cost that was covered by Martin, and I think it's not too much of a one-off ask to pay him back for it. Please vote: A. Reimburse 91 Euros to Martin for paying for a FOSS-friendly license for the current video music track for the project's benefit. B. Don't reimburse. Note: In the future we will be using exclusively CC-BY-SA or better from the beginning since we discovered that CC-BY-ND doesn't work for remixing or uploading to gitlab. Thanks!

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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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PLC Meeting Today
by Ted Gould 17 Apr '22

17 Apr '22

Howdy Everyone, Sorry for the late notice, not sure what happened to my scheduled email. But we do have a PLC meeting today. Lots of things in progress. Everyone is invited. Time and date: https://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?iso=20220401T10&p1=202 Agenda: https://wiki.inkscape.org/wiki/Leadership_Committee_Status_Updates#Agenda Ted

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Hiring Delays II
by Martin Owens 14 Apr '22

14 Apr '22

Dear All, We had our video meeting today with Pono, Tav, and others. Pono has told us that the process for hiring has to be delayed again because of some SFC internal issues and some back and forth between some of the Russian applicans for the job posting. The request is that we move the schedule out by another two weeks. (for a total of four weeks from our original timeline). Are there any objections to pushing out the process another few weeks? Best Regards, Martin Owens

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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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Vote: Vector's Request for Video Funding
by doctormo＠gmail.com 31 Mar '22

31 Mar '22

Dear Leadership Committee, Your attention is required to vote on the attached request from Ryan Gorley of the vectors team to fund a video from the 1.2 release given the specific scoping and budgeting laid out in the team's planning. Notes from previous vote: This is less money/time and fixes the main issue with who was scoping the work to avoid undue conflicts of interest. Hopefully this will be agreeable to the whole comittee for this cycle. Please see attached forwarded message for full details of the plan from Ryan. The Vote: a. Approve $2,000 for the vector team's release video proposal b. Do not approve funding for a video at this time c. Something else (please specify) Chris Rodgers must abstain on this vote as the main benificiary. This vote will run from March 25th until the end of April 1st. (1 week) Big thanks to the whole vectors team for all the meetings, votes and debate they've been having over the last two weeks. It's a lot of extra work to make sure we do this right. Best Regards, Martin Owens

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Update on applications
by Daniel Pono Takamori 28 Mar '22

28 Mar '22

Bringing this to the PLC list just so it gets more eyes. ----- Forwarded message from Daniel Pono Takamori <pono(a)sfconservancy.org> ----- Date: Thu, 24 Mar 2022 11:01:46 -0600 From: Daniel Pono Takamori <pono(a)sfconservancy.org> To: jobs(a)lists.inkscape.org Subject: Update on applications Hey all, We've recieved about a dozen applications which I need to finish anonymizing before sending to this list. I'm going to suggest we extend the search as there was just a post to a mailing list I'm apart of suggesting some more places to put the listing for a wider reach. Here they are quoted verbatim from the email, please let me know which ones you think I should post to (and we can have a discussion about whether the ones that require payment are worth it, personally I do not think the Recurse center's fee is worth it). Thanks for taking a look! """ Posting from mailing list """ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ * @devcolororg (https://twitter.com/devcolororg) Flag them when tweeting a job posting -- at least, I think that's the method, although maybe things have gotten more formal since I first learned of them? https://devcolor.org/ might say more. (Found out about this group on 2020-06-10, when @scottedmonds started following it.) * Coalition for Queens (https://www.c4q.nyc/hiring) Particularly interested in helping companies source local talent with a much more diverse candidate pool. They run a 10 month educational program whose graduates are typically well-suited for entry-level positions, but they do stay in touch with more experienced alumni. * Tech Ladies (https://www.hiretechladies.com/) Regular posting fee is $299, and if you hire there's a $10k fee (the $299 is counted toward that), although with 90-day grace period in case the candidate doesn't work out. (Have heard they might give discounts in some cases? If you're a non-profit, might be worth asking.) * Columbia University Women in Computer Science (WiCS) (https://cuwics.github.io/) * Recurse Center (http://recurse.com/hire) (full-time jobs only) Fee is 25% of first year's salary if you hire, with 90-day grace period in case the candidate doesn't work out. RC alumni are 1/4-1/3 women, we've heard. Note many alumni live or want to live in NYC. * Systers (http://systers.org) Looks like posting to <systers+jobs(a)systers.org> is the way. http://wiki.systers.org/communities/doku.php/wiki/systers/faq has more details: * PyLadies (http://www.pyladies.com/) Not sure there's a jobs board here (?), but maybe something like posting on the right mailing list with "[JOB]" in the subject line is okay, or having someone announce in person at a meeting. Note the NYC PyLadies (http://nyc.pyladies.com/) and Chicago PyLadies (http://chicago.pyladies.com/) affiliates, and the Minneapolis / Twin Cities meetup (https://www.meetup.com/PyLadiesTC/). (There are probably affiliates in other cities too -- those are just the ones we happened to know about when we wrote this entry :-). ) * Society of Women Engineers (https://careers.swe.org/) $200 for one 30 day job listing. * National Society of Black Engineers (http://www.nsbe.org/) This seems to be their job-posting page: https://careers.nsbe.org/employer/login?&mem=3D1 $250 for one 30 day job listing. * Women Who Code (https://www.womenwhocode.com) $200 for one 30 day job listing. * Girls in Tech (https://girlsintech.org/#jobs) $200 minimum to post a job listing. * More organizations and groups listed at Geek Feminism See http://geekfeminism.wikia.com/wiki/List_of_academic_organizations_inter= ested_in_women_in_CS and http://geekfeminism.wikia.com/wiki/List_of_women_in_technology_groups][= List_of_women_in_technology_groups. * Black Data Processing Associates (http://www.bdpa.org/) * The Difference Engine (http://thedifferenceengine.io/) (Chicago-focused) Trying to be a source of career-stage / career-direction diversity. They take people who didn't start out in IT, but who want to switch to it, and trains them for N months in a bootcamp. Then TDE tries to help them get hired. * FOSSjobs.net (https://www.fossjobs.net/) Free to posting an opening. * See also the FOSS Jobs Wiki -- has many other places to post! https://github.com/fossjobs/fossjobs/wiki/resources * FSF jobs board (https://www.fsf.org/resources/jobs/listing) (Btw, why do neither opensource.com nor opensource.org have a jobs board?) * Open Source Design: Jobs Board (https://opensourcedesign.net/jobs/) Note this is UI/UX designers than coders in general. ----- End forwarded message -----

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