- Inkscape Board of Directors

New contribution/funding pages
by Martin Owens 18 Apr '21

18 Apr '21

Dear board, I've put together the pages which are linked from our new welcome screen. They are there to encourage more of our users to contribute to the project and know how they might be able to make Inkscape better. The first is the contribute time page: https://inkscape.org/splash/contribute/ The second is the funding page: https://inkscape.org/splash/support/ The funding page links to a new supporting programmers page: https://inkscape.org/support-us/programmers/ I've tried to encapsulate where we are as a project on funding developers and what advice we've been given from the SFC. While it makes me sad that we can't seem to fund developers directly or event give links to users who want to fund developers, I understand the reasons. Since this is an important topic I'd like for the board to review the pages, and the wording. Once I've got the pages to a place where everything is satisfied, I'll send the SFC an FYI email with the links so they know what we're saying about funding. Does this seem like a reasonable plan? Best Regards, Martin Owens

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Board Meeting Delayed until Apr 9th
by Ted Gould 01 Apr '21

01 Apr '21

Howdy Folks, Asked in chat if we wanted to delay because it's Easter Holiday for much of Europe — didn't get many responses so I'm taking that as "we're already gone." Let's move the meeting to April 9th. Those who have the day off work, enjoy it! Ted

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VOTE: SFC Representative
by Ted Gould 22 Mar '21

22 Mar '21

SFC Representative 2021 ======================= Resolution: ----------- Designate Ted Gould as SFC Project representative. Proposal: --------- Designate a representative to the SFC - [ ] a. Ted Gould - [ ] b. Other, include a name Votes: ------ | Board Member | 1. | | -------------------- |:--:| | Josh Andler | | | Tavmjong Bah | | | Ted Gould | | | Martin Owens | | | Marc Jeanmougin | | | Chris Rogers | |

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Vote: Sponsorship Refactoring
by Martin Owens 11 Feb '21

11 Feb '21

Sponsorships Refactoring 2021 ============================= Proposal: --------- 1. Removal from our top sponsorship level of $10k the perk of having a footer link. * [ ] a. Yes, remove the footer reward * [ ] b. No, keep the footer reward * [ ] c. Something else, please specify. 2. The increase in our sponsorships, from 0.5k 2k, 5k 10k to 0.5k 2k 10k 20k * [ ] a. Yes, refactor the sponsorships as above. * [ ] b. No, leave the levels as they are now. * [ ] c. Yes, but use a different set of levels, please detail. 3. Maintain nofollow links for all our sponsorship links, but allow them on news articles. other pages: sponsors page, front page, footer etc * [ ] a. Yes, allow follow links on news articles only * [ ] b. Yes, allow follow links for all sponsorship links * [ ] c. No, don't allow follow links anywhere * [ ] d. Something else. Please specify Votes: ------ | Board Member | 1 | 2 | 3 | | -------------------- |:---:|:---:|:---:| | Josh Andler | | | | | Tavmjong Bah | | | | | Ted Gould | | | | | Martin Owens | | | | | Marc Jeanmougin | | | | | Chris Rogers | | | | Background ---------- A new sponsor is asking us for follow links and footer links in a pretty aggressive way. It seems like the project might be offering ourselves up for abuse by people who want search engine optimisation. RedHat have recently also sponsored us for $20k, this puts their sponsorship at twice our highest level, and it wasn't even a sweat for them. Sponsorship details: https://inkscape.org/support-us/sponsors/ Martin,

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Possible Trademark Infringement
by Martin Owens 09 Feb '21

09 Feb '21

Dear SFC Legal, A plurality of the board have decided that this should be passed back to the SFC for review. Author, CS Ratliff is attempting to create a social media site for creative people and has called it Inkscape. He's based in Ohio, USA and looks to be using a service to host the site. https://twitter.com/cs_ratliff/status/1357137318063308802 https://twitter.com/cs_ratliff/status/1357136576753659904 https://inkscape.mn.co/ This is likely to create confusion with our trademark in the graphics arena. Let us know what you think. Thanks for your help. Best Regards, Martin Owens Inkscape PLC Board

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Charter Discussion Meeting
by doctormo＠gmail.com 05 Feb '21

05 Feb '21

Dear Developers and Board, We're organising to have a video chat in 3 weeks time to discuss opening Inkscape up to allowing more contributors that just programmers to vote on board elections. Please attend if you are a team leader or if you are interested in how the project should certify contributions from all our different teams. Calendar entry: https://inkscape.org/cals/event/11/ ical: https://inkscape.org/*board/calendar.ics Best Regards, Martin Owens

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Board Meeting Today
by Tavmjong Bah 05 Feb '21

05 Feb '21

Reminder: Board meeting today! https://wiki.inkscape.org/wiki/index.php/Board_Meetings

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Inkscape 1.0.2 and Inkscape 1.1-alpha released
by Marc Jeanmougin 17 Jan '21

17 Jan '21

Inkscape 1.0.2 ============== Inkscape 1.0.2 is now released. You can download it at: https://inkscape.org/release/inkscape-1.0.2/ then, if you want to support Inkscape, donate to the project at: https://inkscape.org/support-us/ ---------------- Inkscape 1.0.2 is mainly a stability and bugfix release. It fixes numerous crashes and several major inconveniences, such as extensions popping up dialogs when interacting with a clipboard manager, or additional options to disable canvas rotation. ---------------- In addition, we are releasing an alpha version of Inkscape 1.1, to facilitate testing of major upcoming features, such as the new dialog system by Valentin Ionita or the command palette by Abhay Raj Singh. If you find any issue with this new version, please report it to https://inkscape.org/report You can download it at https://inkscape.org/release/1.1alpha0/ ----------------------------- 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 on https://inkscape.org/contribute/ and you can get in touch with us on https://chat.inkscape.org/ Thanks to everyone involved in this release! -- The Inkscape team

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Board Meeting this week
by Ted Gould 08 Jan '21

08 Jan '21

Happy New Year Inkscapers! We have a board meeting this week. Friday, Jan 8th. Check it out in your timezone: https://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?iso=20210108T10&p1=202 (https://link.getmailspring.com/link/3C28F8E0-1B3C-4393-9C77-8C137EEFE956@ge…) For the agenda: https://wiki.inkscape.org/wiki/index.php?title=Board_Meetings#Agenda (https://link.getmailspring.com/link/3C28F8E0-1B3C-4393-9C77-8C137EEFE956@ge…) I hope to see everyone there! Ted

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Jan meeting date
by Ted Gould 04 Dec '20

04 Dec '20

Howdy folks, I was updating the wiki and noticed the next board meeting would fall on New Year's. Figuring that most people will have plans that day I took the liberty of just moving to the 8th. Any objections? If it is hard to move for folks I'm happy to move it back. https://wiki.inkscape.org/wiki/index.php?title=Board_Meetings Ted

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