- Inkscape Board of Directors

Hiring Comittee Report
by doctormo＠gmail.com 07 Sep '22

07 Sep '22

Dear Inkscape PLC, Attached is the report directly from the hiring comittee, it contains a full detailed account of what happened, the steps everyone took and some recomendations for us in the PLC to consider. Please do read the full report. It's not very long, but I think it contains a great deal of thoughtful information from our volunteer hiring comittee members. --- My own additional recommendations is that the project not persue hiring a paid administrator until a HR person be available at the SFC to oversee the process. I do not believe that there was sufficient staffing at the SFC to process the time sensitive elements of this request we made of them. Thus long delays and ultimately starvation of the process. The PLC may want to publicise this issue further to aid in full project transparency, but please go through the vectors team directly. I don't believe a further meeting is neccessary; The hiring comittee is henceforth disbanded. And if I'm being honest everyone involved in this process is emotionally spent and we all require time and space to recover. Best Regards, Martin Owens

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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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FSA Final Call for comments
by Ted Gould 26 Jul '22

26 Jul '22

Hello PLC, Karen sent out an updated FSA, which includes the changes we voted on, but also updates that come from the newer version of their template. I've read through them and don't see any significant changes other than just making it easier to read. We don't need to vote on the change because, well, everyone has to sign it anyway. But, it would be nice to not end up in a state where someone won't sign it because they don't like change. So this email is to ask if anyone has any blocking changes on the FSA as sent by Karen, and attached below. My schedule is that, if no one has blocking issues, I'll ask the SFC to send out the FSA for signatures on Monday August 1st, 2022. Thanks, Ted

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Inkscape 1.2.1
by Marc Jeanmougin 14 Jul '22

14 Jul '22

Inkscape 1.2.1 ============== Inkscape 1.2.1 is now released. You can download it at: https://inkscape.org/release/inkscape-1.2.1/ then, if you want to support Inkscape, donate to the project at: https://inkscape.org/support-us/ ---------------- Inkscape 1.2.1 is mainly a stability and bugfix release, fixing a nasty data loss crash with the export dialog, various other crashes, and improving page export and some translations. Thanks to everyone involved in that release! -- The Inkscape team

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VOTE: hardware 2FA for project sensitive access
by Marc Jeanmougin 01 Jul '22

01 Jul '22

Dear leadership committee, Your attention is required to vote on the following matters: Background: Some contributors have, or need to have, access to social media accounts to post on the behalf of the project, or to infrastructure accounts, most importantly gitlab. For computer security, we would like to protect those accesses with a safe 2FA method, and the safest method to avoid impersonation and phishing attacks is a 2FA hardware token with FIDO2 or U2F. Then we would be able to set a policy to enforce 2fa when contributors need access to passwords that would be shared on nextcloud, or to contributors with "owner" access to gitlab projects. The most common such token is the Yubikey (45€/$ a piece+10 tax+5shipping) but there are equivalents with open hardware component and open source software (e.g. solokeys at 35€/$ incl. tax +5€ shipping, or nitrokey ). As for the amount of people, the vectors team has around 10-15 people with some level of access to passwords of the project, 4 people do not have 2FA and have "owner" access to the whole gitlab project, + 2 "maintainer" access to inkscape/inkscape (and more in other sub-projects). We also have the possibility to offer it to all regular contributors for whom it would be useful. It is yet to be seen whether we could have a discount by asking, or if there is a way to pay for the whole order and get a single reimbursement instead of reimbursing individual contributors Ballot: a. Reimburse up to 2000 USD for password and project protection, and also offering it to contributors who have been in the project for more than a year and ask for it (implies support for option b) b. Reimburse up to 1000 USD to protect the project's passwords on nextcloud and gitlab project access (only contributors who have access to nextcloud, and gitlab maintainer or owner access) c. Do not do it d. Other (please specify) Thanks! -- Marc

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PLC Meeting this week
by Ted Gould 27 Jun '22

27 Jun '22

Howdy folks, We have a PLC meeting this Friday July 1st. Everyone is invited. Proposed agenda is currently: https://wiki.inkscape.org/wiki/Leadership_Committee_Status_Updates#Agenda You can find the time in your timezone here: https://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?iso=20220701T10&p1=202 And you can add it to your calendar from here: https://inkscape.org/cals/event/46/ Hope to see everyone there! Ted

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PLC Status Meeting - Notes
by doctormo＠gmail.com 24 Jun '22

24 Jun '22

Dear all, Thanks to everyone who could make this month's meeting. Compressed notes below, full transcript is on the IRC/rocket chat log for archiving. Best Regards, Martin Owens ==== START MEETING 1:10pm EST ==== Welcome everyone! Appologies from: ted, karen, scislac Absent but mentioned: Tav, ryan gorley * Financial status (ted) - https://inkscape.org/budget/inkscape/ - pono: We've been a bit behind with PayPal imports, so there are ~2 months of donations that haven't been accounted for - pono: We're also continuing the work investigating other donation platforms. Unfortunately we hit a roadblock and are needing to reconsider our approach there. But hopefully we'll make some progress over the summer. - doctormo: We're expecting a bump from the release, previous months might not be a true guide. But it's ok, we can be patient. * Student programs (Outreachy, GSoC, etc) (@Tav) - Mc: yup, all's good afaict * Developer update / release feedback (Mc) - Mc: well, things are progressing I think - feedback for 1.2 is mostly positive, with some minor complaints of removed features * Vectors update (@ryangorley) - c.rogers: Nothing to report until after the meeting tomorrow. * Updated Fiscal Sponsorship Agreement (ted/karen) - Deffered, people not at the meeting * Administrator job process status (@doctormo/@pono) - pono: the list of questions has been finalized, but i need to get caught up on the email thread - prkos: The Job applications review are around about half done. We have come up with what we believe to be objective way to grade the applications - pono: Okay, I'll get those sent out today and then forward them back to the list as they come in - doctormo: I'm particually impressed by the spreadsheets you guys have drawn up to fairly rank according to what we want. Nice work! * Current Votes Status - No active votes * Next Meeting: July 1st, 2022 - https://inkscape.org/cals/event/46/ ==== END MEETING 1:37pm EST ===

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