- Inkscape Board of Directors

Vote: Bugfix Accelerator 2023 v2
by Marc Jeanmougin 03 Feb '23

03 Feb '23

Dear PLC, *Background:* Jonathan Neuhauser (@joneuhauser at Gitlab and chat.inkscape.org) is submitting a proposal to hire two core developers for the equivalent of a month of work each to fix bugs and regressions during the remaining time until the 1.3 release. This proposal is a slightly changed version of the one voted on in December; with the main change that one contractor was removed to take into account PLC member remarks asking for a smaller scale first attempt. The complete proposal is appended; it contains all the details on the selection process, persons, objectives as well as a remark on why the Dev team asserts the opinion that at least two contractors should be hired for this project. *Proposal:* Voting is needed on the following items: - hiring Rafal Siejakowski and Martin Owens as contractors during the bugfixing season in order to fix known bugs before 1.3 is released, - allocating a total of USD 22,400 as compensation for the two contractors. Details on the process are lined out in the attached document. *Ballot:* a. Accept the above items. b. No, cease effort for Bugfix Accelerator 2023 c. Other: ______ Best regards, -- Mc

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Inkscape PLC Meeting Jan (just minutes)
by Ted Gould 11 Jan '23

11 Jan '23

Hello, Realized I forgot to post an reminder email. Sorry about that, hope that didn't cause anyone to forget. Anyway, I was just getting to posting the minutes, which I normally attach to it, and realized it wasn't there. TL;DR, here are the minutes: https://alpha.inkscape.org/board/meetings/transcripts/2023-01-06.log.html Ted

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VOTE: Hackfest2023 Bensberg Funding
by C R 06 Jan '23

06 Jan '23

*Background* In the past, Inkscape has chosen to fund Hackfest costs, including venue, hotel, and travel expenses. *Proposal* This year's Hackfest in Bensberg has an estimated cost requirement of up to *20000 € for 10 attendees*. Cost calculation The fee per attendee is 837 € and is due on the last day of the event, payable via debit or credit card (VISA, Mastercard). A billing address needs to be provided in advance. hotel room incl. breakfast 127 € x 4 days = 508 € catering service (days 1-4) 70 € x 4 days = 280 € catering service (day 5) 49 € x 1 day = 49 € -------------------------------------------- 837 € 837*10(attendees)= *8370 €* One attendee (RdH) needs to pay the additional fee for the meeting room. meeting room (days 1-5) 180 € x 5 days = *900 €* An additional *730**€* is requested to be used to cover any unexpected expenses, the full balance to be returned if none arise. In the past, the project has also offered reimbursement of up to 1000€ in travel expenses, to be reimbursed to each attendee upon submitting of travel receipts. Note that there is no per-diem, as all expenses are included with the accommodations. Please see this wiki for more information: https://wiki.inkscape.org/wiki/Hackfest2023_Bensberg Thus, Funds requested for Hotel The vote is for *10,000.00€* in funds to be allocated *up-front* with the expectation that *receipts for rooms, venue, and any remaining balance will be returned* upon conclusion of the event. Up to a further *10,000.00**€ *in travel expenses, to be reimbursed after the event, under SFC's net30 (days) reimbursement policy, to be refunded to attendees upon submitting receipts for these expenses to SFC. Pono will be the point of contact for any SFC reimbursement issues. Total: (up to) *20,000.00**€* *Timeline* Proposed: 2023-01-03 Closes: 2023-01-11

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Fwd: Proposal for PLC: Bugfix Accelerator 2023
by Marc Jeanmougin 16 Dec '22

16 Dec '22

Dear PLC, *Background:* Jonathan Neuhauser (@joneuhauser at Gitlab and chat.inkscape.org) is submitting a proposal to hire three core developers for the equivalent of a month of work each to fix bugs and regressions during the remaining time until the 1.3 release. This proposal has been cleared by the SFC (Pono and Karen) and received a favorable reception during the developer meetings. The proposal is designed such that no (micro)management / mentoring is needed (thus only trusted core developers were considered). As the AI project explicitly targets outside contractors, this proposal attempts to use our funds internally. The complete proposal is appended; it contains all the details on the selection process, persons, objectives as well as a personal remark by Jonathan on the impact on the project's general atmosphere. *Proposal:* Voting is needed on the following items: - hiring Rafal Siejakowski, Martin Owens and Tavmjong Bah as contractors during the bugfixing season in order to fix serious bugs before 1.3 is released, - allocating a total of USD 34,200 as compensation for the three contractors. Details on the process are lined out in the attached document. *Ballot:* a. Accept the above items. b. No, cease effort for Bugfix Accelerator 2023 c. Other: ______ Best regards,

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Inkscape PLC Meeting
by Ted Gould 09 Dec '22

09 Dec '22

Howdy folks, Been traveling a bunch and out of the loop. So at least for me this will be a super exciting PLC meeting. Hoping to get back into the swing of things and catch up with everyone! Standard agenda: https://wiki.inkscape.org/wiki/Leadership_Committee_Status_Updates#Agenda Date time: https://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?iso=20221104T10&p1=202 (NOTE: this is on Pacific time from when Bryce organized it, so it might be a different time than you're used to) Hope to see everyone there! Ted

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Inkscape 1.2.2
by Marc Jeanmougin 05 Dec '22

05 Dec '22

Inkscape 1.2.2 ============== Inkscape 1.2.2 is now released. You can download it at: https://inkscape.org/release/inkscape-1.2.2/ then, if you want to support Inkscape, donate to the project at: https://inkscape.org/support-us/ ---------------- Inkscape 1.2.2 is a maintenance and bugfix release, which brings you 4 crash fixes, over 25 bug fixes, 5 fixes for extension bugs and 13 improved user interface translations. Notably, the OpenClipart import is now available to everyone, regardless of the selected packaging format or operating system, spellchecking finally works on macOS, performance is improved (in exchange for dithering disabled by default), extensions that modify colors can now also modify colors in patterns again, and for our maker community, we fixed some issues with the measure tool, the DXF14 export and with hairline strokes. Thanks to everyone involved in that release! -- The Inkscape team

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[vote] funding for AI import project
by Marc Jeanmougin 02 Dec '22

02 Dec '22

Dear PLC, *Background:* Jonathan Neuhauser (@joneuhauser at Gitlab and chat.inkscape.org) is submitting a proposal to hire a freelance contributor to write an importer for AI files as a Python extension. For one, this is a highly requested feature (https://twitter.com/inkscape/status/1574010475024683008), and its boundary conditions make it perfect as a "test balloon" for contracting out work, in general. The complete proposal can be found here [1]; the first 2 pages are the "job description", while pages 3-5 contain information on the hiring process, license, milestones, financials and what has already been prepared code-wise. *Proposal:* Voting is needed on the following items: - assigning Jonathan Neuhauser, Réne de Hesselle, Marc Jeanmougin and one SFC staff member (to be determined) as hiring team (with Martin Owens as stand-in if one of the other members become unavailable), who will also perform the midterm evaluation and decide whether the project should be extended, - allocating a total of USD 21,000 for the project, of which $600 are allocated as a management stipend, $400 as a stipend for the hiring team, and $10,000 as compensation for the candidate for the first part of the project, - authorizing the hiring team to decide, in consultation with the Dev Team, whether the project should be extended (i.e. another $10,000 for compensation of the candidate). Details on the process are lined out in the attached document. *Ballot:* a. Accept the above items. b. No, cease effort for AI Import project. c. Other: ______ Best regards, -- Mc [1] https://office.inkscape.org/nextcloud/index.php/s/wesJJ44xqHzJ9X6, MD5 Sum: 0b1dfad94ff5511317a9d7f9c1e4472c

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AI Import Project Ideas
by Ted Gould 08 Nov '22

08 Nov '22

Howdy folks, Sorry for the delay. Here is a link to the current proposal: https://office.inkscape.org/nextcloud/index.php/s/jm7qoX9cK7LRnYG What I wanted to do is kinda pull together all the feedback. Here is the the ideas that I think came up in the PLC meeting (not all by me) but I wanted to write down for those who couldn't make it: People generally seemed happy with the idea of paying for reviews/mentorship though it seemed like folks weren't sure on how much seemed right. Probably a different amount for each. We talked about reimbursing for a Creative Cloud license to create test files Some additional thoughts. I think we need to either specify the reviewers/mentors in the proposal or a process to choose them just to ensure there is no conflicts of interest, etc. The proposal was written up to suggest that we'd do the first 6 weeks, and then a PLC vote. I can't speak for everyone, but I think the review team could decide on the second six weeks not the PLC. The PLC is slow 😄 We should probably include a comment in the job request mentioning the net30 payment schedule, just to be entirely clear for anyone who would apply. I'm not sure, and I'm not sure if Pono knows, but we should probably clarify licensing and/or copyright ownership. This seems to me to be work-for-hire which would mean that Inkscape would own copyright. I don't think that folks would have an issue with that as we'd release it as GPLv2+ with everything else. But we should be clear. Overall, I'll say again I'm excited about the progress on this. Thanks to all who contributed! Ted

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Inkscape PLC Meeting this week
by Ted Gould 06 Oct '22

06 Oct '22

Hello Folks, So I'm on a work trip and I tried to make it so that I could go to the PLC meeting, but I've ended up with things I just can't avoid so I won't be able to make it. If someone else would like to lead the meeting I think it is always good to coordinate, but I can not. Is anyone willing to lead the meeting? Otherwise I'm going to suggest that we just have the next meeting at the beginning of November. I think there are some ongoing projects but nothing pressing so that'd be easier. Thoughts? Ted

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IDEA: Inkscape Partner Program
by Ted Gould 19 Sep '22

19 Sep '22

As many of you know one of my goals has been to try and figure out our sponsorship program and reboot it. It used to be our primary income as a project, and I feel that long term it is what is needed to get long term growth of cash flow to allow things like hiring individuals to work on Inkscape. I keep tweaking and changing this, but I've gone with putting a list of issues at the end that I see as unresolved, please help! Sorry, I do realize it is a long read, but I think worth it in the end. I think that our old program had the problem that it talked primary about how much money people wanted to give to Inkscape. So we ended up with a bunch of people who basically wanted to buy ads. But we didn't end up with people who love Inkscape and want to see it grow as our sponsors. This hurt us both financially, but also part of the sponsorship program is to get people working with you, and we didn't attract those people. So how I'm thinking that we should change our program is to move from "how much money" for the levels of program to "how you work with Inkscape." And I with that, not having all the "payment" be financial, but instead including publicly talking about the project and usage. Also, to provide time for employees to contribute to the project for the higher levels. My goal here is to provide a level that makes sense for everyone who's working with Inkscape in an organization to have a foothold to get that organization connected to the project. Along with that restructuring I'm suggesting we rename from a "sponsor program" to a "partner program." To be clear, there are a lot more details to work out in the individual items. But I think it is at a point where it is starting to come together as a plan and I'd really like to hear folks thoughts on how it can be better. Freelance Designer/Developer For an individual or small firm up to three employees Publicly lists either Inkscape development or design as the list of services that they provide customers (i.e. on their webpage) $120/yr Listing in the directory of Inkscape sponsors as someone providing Inkscape services. Encouraged to include the "Inkscape Partner" badge on their website Small Firm For a small design/development firm that provides Inkscape services Employs up to 10 employees in the company or division that provides Inkscape services Publicly lists Inkscape services on the information on the company or division $1000/yr Listing in the directory of Inkscape partners as someone providing Inkscape services. Encouraged to include the "Inkscape Partner" badge on their website. Inkscape Services Provider For a large design/development firm/division that provides Inkscape services Up to 50 employees Provides a public statement of allowing some employees to contribute meaningfully to the Inkscape project Publicly lists Inkscape services on product offerings $10K/yr Listing in the directory of Inkscape partners as someone providing Inkscape services. Encouraged to include the "Inkscape Partner" badge on their website. Inkscape Product Customize Inkscape for use in their product through an extension or patch that they then provide to their customers Provides a link and information about the Inkscape project and what changes or modifications they've made Ensures that changes and modifications/additions are correctly distributed under the Inkscape licenses Donates a percentage of sales back to the Inkscape project for the product in question (depends on product by generally Inkscape recommends 10% of profits on the Inkscape value added) Listing in the directory of Inkscape Partners using Inkscape in products Encouraged to include the "Inkscape Product Partner" badge on their website If the product includes retail packaging it is also encouraged to include the "Inkscape Product Partner" badge Educator (Individual) For an individual educator who chooses to create content with or about Inkscape for their classroom Publicly publishes information about their class and that it uses Inkscape Gets permission to use the school logo and information on the "Inkscape Educators" page $0/yr Includes the "Inkscape Educator" badge on their website Education Program For a department or program that uses Inkscape Publicly publishes how their program or department uses and contributes to Inkscape Gives permission to use the school logo and information on the "Inkscape Educators" page $100/yr per lab or classroom or program Includes the "Inkscape Educator" badge or their website Makerspace For community oriented makerspaces that use Inkscape At all instructional or learning sessions about using equipment that takes vector graphics students are taught how to get a design from Inkscape onto the tool. All general public computers in the makerspace have Inkscape installed for member use Includes the "Inkscape Makerspace" on the Makerspace webiste Allows for usage of the makerspace logo on the "Inkscape Makerspaces" listing webpage $0/yr Obviously agreeing on the program is only the first step of the whole process. Next steps would include working with Vectors on the partners website and various badges. Also we'd need to work with SFC on the agreement we'd need people to sign to ensure we can use their logos and that they'd agree to the other parts of the program. I'm not assuming we'd police it heavily, but more count on people to do what they said they would. Issues I see that I'd like comment on: We don't have a way for someone who just wants to sponsor. For example, Red Hat has sponsored us in the past. They do use us internally, but I don't believe those efforts have a public face. Not sure one of these categories works for that. Should it? Or should we keep a generic sponsorship thing around? (seems like confusion, but I don't know) The education ones aren't great. I feel like that's a place we can grow credibility in "look at all these folks learning Inkscape." Which if we wanted to write grants in the future would really help. But I'm not sure the individual classroom vs. program thing makes sense. Just all education the same? All $0/yr + logo usage? Makerspace, I like it, but is that the same as an education program? Seems like it is a different type of thing to me, but I'm not sure. Process as I see it once we have a blueprint: PLC Votes on the levels and requirements Prepare materials. Work with: Vectors work on badges Vectors work on partners website SFC work on agreements Work with Vectors to do a promotional roll out Generally speaking I'm volunteering to bring this through all those stages, but I'd love help. If anyone wants to join in talk to me! Ted

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