- Inkscape Board of Directors

Setting up Committee Meetings
by Martin Owens 19 Jun '21

19 Jun '21

Dear Inkscape Committee, After our detailed discussion with Karen and Pono, it's becoming more clear that we should be running Committee Meetings via a video chat service. There is a great need to have more discussion, debate and decision making process at specified times and places outside of this mailing list and I believe that the SFC's suggestion of using their big blue button server is actually their gentle hint that running a higher bandwidth meeting would benefit the project greatly. I propose that we start running committee meetings. This meeting would be a distinct and different event from the existing status update event, where activate items have their updates relayed to the rest of the project. But would instead focus on many of the processes, problems, activities and votes which are involved in being a responsible committee for the Inkscape project. To kick off this series of meetings, I'd like to invite Pono to chair the first meeting. The hope here is that the SFC can instruct us on the right way to conduct a more structured and productive meeting via video chat and then from there on we would conduct meetings monthly, with reports and recordings to the mailing list. Using this as a template. Should this idea meet with general approval from the rest of the board, Ted would contact the SFC to formally request a suitable date and time which the SFC would be available to offer this initial meeting and when the majority of the current comittee members would be available. The agenta would focus on reviewing the basics of meeting operation and our questions to the SFC about running ourselves better. I believe having this meeting structure is essential before we can conduct much of the rest of the business for Inkscpe we must have a decision making process which is more attentive than the current mailing list approach where I don't believe proper quorum can be achieved which raises doubts bout the legitimacy of the decisions we make here. A vote will follow after period for comments. Best Regards, Martin Owens

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Inkscape Board | Inkscape macOS speed work
by Martin Owens 08 Jun '21

08 Jun '21

Hi all, The next steps for the budgeting for macOS speed improvements is a vote. I didn't see any objections from the board about the developer team proposal to spend $5k on contracting with someone to analyse the speed problems in macOS and give us a report. This is an exploratory mission. I'll post a board vote by the end of the week if there's no objections in the meantime. Best Regrds, Martin Owens

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Re: [Inkscape-devel] Back to: Budger Was: CMYK Review
by doctormo＠gmail.com 07 Jun '21

07 Jun '21

Thanks for chasing this up Maren, Feedback from these sources should be taken into account: * Facebook - A poll of over a hundred Inkscape users indicates an extremely strong desire for CMYK and general print support. With users indicating that they are using many proprietary tools as workarounds, even when they like Inkscape's other workflows. Full report from Chris Rogers coming soon. * Other FOSS projects - I've had a few conversations with some other people who work in places like Fedora. There's a strong desire to have CMYK and proper print handling amongst our wider Free Software community which is not being handled by our current setup with Scribus. * Other - Other discussions on twitter, rocket chat and elsewhere have indicated an extremely large desire to have CMYK support. So far, very few people have indicated that they would rather Inkscape work on some other feature. This seems to be the mass majority and also a thing which significantly effects people's use of Inkscape. I'm going to raise the prospect of putting a $20k grant into CMYK and print features. We can discuss if this is too much or too little at the next meeting (this weekend) and work from there. * macOS speed problems (est $5k) * CMYK print functionality (spitball $20k) * General project administrator position (undefined, probably a lot) Please come to the meeting if you would like to talk about this further. https://inkscape.org/cals/event/2/ Best Regards, Martin Owens On Thu, 2021-06-03 at 15:21 +0200, Maren Hachmann wrote: > Hi again, > > I received a reply from Bryce, allowing us to build upon the work he > has > already done in the mentioned file (as long as he's credited as the > original author of it, with the same license as Inkscape, which > applies > to the Wiki content anyway). Thank you, Bryce! > > So I've just (reformatted it and) added it to our Wiki, you can find > it at > https://wiki.inkscape.org/wiki/index.php?title=Color_Management_Planning > > Maren > > Am 26.05.21 um 15:03 schrieb Maren Hachmann: > > Hi all, > > > > someone has sent me a copy of the mentioned print.md file privately > > (which is extensive good documentation with the necessary tasks all > > laid > > out that could save us weeks), but I'm unsure whether it's okay to > > share > > it here, as Bryce has removed it from the web, along with his > > complete > > website (which may have been intentional or not). > > > > Bryce, if you read this - do we have permission to use your CMYK > > writeup? > > > > Maren > > > > > > Am 24.05.21 um 15:39 schrieb Maren Hachmann: > > > There's also the discussion with requirements we had already > > > talked about: > > > > > > https://gitlab.com/inkscape/vectors/general/-/issues/45 > > > > > > Unfortunately, Bryce has removed the writeup from his website, > > > and > > > archive.org doesn't have it, either... > > > (http://www.bryceharrington.org/print.md). > > > > > > Maren > > > > > > Am 24.05.21 um 15:08 schrieb Martin Owens: > > > > On Mon, 2021-05-24 at 13:58 +0100, John Cliff wrote: > > > > > * I'd definitely support Tavs push for CMYK support, its got > > > > > to be > > > > > one of the most common questions we've had from users about > > > > > capability for years. Its also one of the stumbling blocks to > > > > > being > > > > > more useful in serious print type jobs. > > > > > > > > Thanks John, > > > > > > > > I'm looking for someone who could gather a list of users who > > > > have > > > > requested CMYK (or similar) and ask them about what they want. > > > > Specifically the difference between producing pdfs with named > > > > colours, > > > > or just saving cmyk values in the svg (very different > > > > problems). > > > > > > > > Would you be available to gather more information from our > > > > users to > > > > solidify a case for investing in it? Maybe Tav can help too, > > > > but as > > > > volunteers we're always somewhat busy. > > > > > > > > Best Regards, Martin Owens > > > > _______________________________________________ > > > > Inkscape Devel mailing list -- > > > > inkscape-devel(a)lists.inkscape.org > > > > To unsubscribe send an email to > > > > inkscape-devel-leave(a)lists.inkscape.org > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > > Inkscape Devel mailing list -- inkscape-devel(a)lists.inkscape.org > > > To unsubscribe send an email to > > > inkscape-devel-leave(a)lists.inkscape.org > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Inkscape Devel mailing list -- inkscape-devel(a)lists.inkscape.org > > To unsubscribe send an email to > > inkscape-devel-leave(a)lists.inkscape.org > > > _______________________________________________ > Inkscape Devel mailing list -- inkscape-devel(a)lists.inkscape.org > To unsubscribe send an email to > inkscape-devel-leave(a)lists.inkscape.org

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TODAY: Meeting; hiring an administration position in Inkscape
by Martin Owens 30 May '21

30 May '21

Hello everyone, We have scheduled today's meeting to discuss the specific details of hiring an administrator who can help organise the inkscape project. This is a budgeting request from the Developer Team to alleviate a lot of the stress from running the project and better organise. Starting Questions * Should they be familiar with the project? * They probably shouldn't not be a developer? * Should they be part time or full time? * Should we ask the SFC to fill the role for us? The goal is to flesh out the request so we can offer the board a set of requirements and desires around what we (as the developer team) would like to have. Calendar: https://inkscape.org/cals/event/25/ Date/Time: TODAY, 1:00PM EDT (see above link for your local time) Video Link: https://digimedia1.r2.enst.fr/b/mar-9wm-vj2 Best Regards, Martin Owens Developer Hat

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Inkscape 1.1 released
by Marc Jeanmougin 24 May '21

24 May '21

================ = Inkscape 1.1 = ================ Inkscape version 1.1 is now released. ---------------- You can watch our showcase at: https://inkscape.org/release-video-1-1/ and download it for your platform on: https://inkscape.org/release/inkscape-1.1/ then, if you want to support Inkscape, donate to the project at https://inkscape.org/support-us/ ---------------- Inkscape 1.1 is the latest major release of Inkscape, following one year of development after the 1.0 major release. The highlights of this release are: * A Welcome dialog, where the look of Inkscape can be selected, and some choices for the new document's size or file to open are available * A Command palette that opens when the '?' key is pressed, that allows to search and use many functions without having to use a keyboard shortcut or going through the menus * It is now possible to copy, cut and paste parts of paths with the Node tool * The dialog docking system has been rewritten, which resolves many issues with Inkscape's docked dialogs and allows you to dock dialogs on either side of the screen * New Outline Overlay mode that displays object outlines while also showing their real colors * Preferences options are now easier to find by using the new search field * It is no longer necessary to remember to click on 'Export' in the PNG Export dialog, as the exporting will already happen after the click on 'Save' in the file selection dialog. * Export as JPG, TIFF, optimized PNG and WebP directly from Inkscape * When pasting a copied object, Inkscape now pastes it directly on top of the currently selected object by default * An extension for updating extensions and installing additional extensions, called the Extension Manager (currently in beta stage) We also introduced a long list of new features outlined in detail and illustrated at https://media.inkscape.org/media/doc/release_notes/1.1/Inkscape_1.1.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 on https://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 freenode/#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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Developer Team Budget
by Martin Owens 24 May '21

24 May '21

Dear Developer team, Thank you to everyone who made the developer meeting today; we talked a lot about what the budget should look like from the developer team. I have comprised the ideas here which I will be bringing to the next board meeting to be held on June 4th 2021 ( https://inkscape.org/cals/event/2/) Current items to be requested immediately: * The Developer team requests a General Administrator who can take care of many of the organisational tasks which we currently struggle to. This is deemed more important than any funding for specific features. I'd like to invite everyone to join me for a meeting to flesh out what this would look like, we'll use previous work as a base and work from there. Please come to BigBlueButton next Sunday 30th May at 17:00UTC (https://inkscape.org/cals/event/25/) to make sure our proposal is detailed enough. * We would like to budget $5k on macOS speed problems; this is to be spent on analysis first, and then solutions second. The whole developer team recognises how dire the situation is with René specifically saying that without a fix we should not release for macOS in the future. Future budget requests which we do not have a consensus for, or details are missing: * CMYK support; Tav would like this, developers feel it's not important enough. A user study would be useful to know for sure. * PathFinder; Taking over, or working with the Linux foundation for their Rust based pathfinder is a great way to bring GPU rendering to Inkscape. Marc is to contact the linux foundation and Linkmauve about collaboration or taking over the project. * ARM Machine for René; If we continue to develop macOS, René will need one of the newer ARM based macOS machine which would be set up to do CI builds. Improving the ability to check and build testing builds for macOS. Thanks everyone for attending, we had quite a lot of the developer team there today and a lot of students so I feel good that we got to see a lot of different opinions. But let me know in this thread if you have details to add, or can't make the above meeting and want to make sure something is included. Best Regards, Martin Owens Developer Team Hat

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Re: [Inkscape-devel] CMYK Review, WAS: Budget
by Martin Owens 24 May '21

24 May '21

On Mon, 2021-05-24 at 13:58 +0100, John Cliff wrote: > > * I'd definitely support Tavs push for CMYK support, its got to be > one of the most common questions we've had from users about > capability for years. Its also one of the stumbling blocks to being > more useful in serious print type jobs. Thanks John, I'm looking for someone who could gather a list of users who have requested CMYK (or similar) and ask them about what they want. Specifically the difference between producing pdfs with named colours, or just saving cmyk values in the svg (very different problems). Would you be available to gather more information from our users to solidify a case for investing in it? Maybe Tav can help too, but as volunteers we're always somewhat busy. Best Regards, Martin Owens

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Inkscape Board Meeting this Friday
by Ted Gould 05 May '21

05 May '21

Hello Inkscapers, We've got the monthly board meeting this Friday at Noon Texas Time. Check on what time that is for you here: https://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?iso=20210507T10&p1=202 Agenda: https://wiki.inkscape.org/wiki/index.php?title=Board_Meetings#Agenda Everyone is invited! Ted

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Inkscape 1.1 release candidate is available !
by Marc Jeanmougin 04 May '21

04 May '21

Hi to all Inkscapers! We just launched the Release Candidate of Inkscape 1.1, with a plan to have roughly three weeks of testing for a release around May 24th. You can get it here: ================================= https://inkscape.org/release/inkscape-1.1/?latest=1 ================================= (source tarball, linux appimage, windows installers and macOS dmg are available) We encourage you to use it as you would use Inkscape 1.1 stable, in order to find any problems people may encounter with the release. In particular, if you find any regressions, please do submit a bug report as soon as possible on https://inkscape.org/report : if nothing major is reported, the state of that release candidate should be close to the release. If you want to help with the translations to your language, it's still possible to submit those until close to the release date. Thanks to everyone involved in this release ! -- Marc

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Potential change of venue for Board meetings
by C R 30 Apr '21

30 Apr '21

Hey folks. In order to collect discussions that are related to Inkscape's internal processes, ethics and policies, we've been kinking the idea around for a RocketChat Channel #board_room, which will be a place to house not only our board meetings, but also conversations that need the board's attention. Reasoning for this is: 1. To make it easy for board members to see conversation which is relevant to decisions the board will have to make, all in one place. 2. To keep the #team_devel channel for code development matters. 3. To keep other channels such as #team_vectors uncluttered 4. To allow project members who wish to participate in the discussion a place where their points are likely to be seen by board members (to reduce having to explain nuanced conversation again) Thus this new channel will be a digest for board members to scan through and see board-related matters before and after board meetings. This room would be open to everyone in the project just as board meetings have always been. Thoughts?

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