- Inkscape Board of Directors

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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Linking to djangoCMS
by Martin Owens 30 Nov '20

30 Nov '20

Website update, I've added djangoCMS to the website on request from the djangoCMS project. They've added Inkscape to their website too, you can see it here https://www.django-cms.org/en/partnerships/ Added here: https://inkscape.org/support-us/sponsors/ (infrastructure) Background: djangoCMS is a project we've used for a long time for our inkscape website (inkscape.org) and they are undergoing reforms to make their project more sustainable. Hopefully a positive relationship will help make the website a little cheaper to maintain (especially if we can upstream some of our patches). Best Regards, Martin Owens

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[REFERENDUM] Community Development Book Campaign
by Bryce Harrington 11 Nov '20

11 Nov '20

2020 Developer Education Book Campaign ====================================== Proposal: --------- https://wiki.inkscape.org/wiki/index.php?title=Community_Development 1. Purchase and distribute an Inkscape-related educational book for the most active Inkscape contributors. Where we focused on programmers in past campaigns, this will be open to all community contributors. 2. In total, the Inkscape Board intends to spend up to $2000 for purchase of books for community contributors, including shipping and handling costs. Our expectation is that most books will cost $40 plus up to another $10 shipping, but that the range may be more like $25-100 per person generally in total. We anticipate 10-30 people participating in this, with a cost of less than 20*($40+$10) on average. 3. Recipients must have been actively contributing to the Inkscape community in some tangible form for at least six months, with the intention to continue, and the selected book should be one that will aid in their continued contributions to Inkscape. Valid forms of contribution include, but are not limited to: community development, website content, visual design, user experience design, and programming. 4. The campaign proposer (Tavmjong Bah, or their designee) will be empowered to officially announce and introduce the campaign to the larger community, and to encourage applicants. They will define the schedule with deadlines for a) book suggestions, b) start of applications, and c) end of applications. They will also be charged with vetting applicants to verify they meet the criteria listed here. 5. The list of books allowed to be selected will be open for public suggestion up to the deadline date specified in (3). All books must be topical to improvement of Inkscape's software, usage, or community; the campaign proposer is charged with determination of which books meet the criteria. All books must be orderable through at least two major booksellers; the actual selection of which bookseller to use is per the discretion of the Software Freedom Conservancy (SFC). 6. Recipients must provide a valid name, shipping address, and desired book to the campaign proposer (or their designee), who will then provide the compiled and finalized list to SFC for purchasing and shipment of the educational materials after the end of applications deadline. 7. Appeal of any of the above should be made to the Inkscape Board of Directors. * [ ] a. Yes, conduct this campaign as defined above * [ ] b. No, we should not conduct this campaign * [ ] c. Maybe, but I disagree with some definition of the campaign Background ---------- The rational is the same as the 2013 and 2014 campaigns. Give a "thank you" present to our contributors and enhance their knowledge for continued contributions. https://wiki.inkscape.org/wiki/index.php?title=Community_Development

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Inkscape Board Meeting this week!
by Ted Gould 07 Nov '20

07 Nov '20

Howdy Inkscapers! Board meeting this week, sorry for the late notice! It will be Friday at it is usual time. It is important to note that the website was wrong, so if you've used the ical feed there it may be wrong on your calendar. Here is the time for you locally: https://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?iso=20201106T10&p1=202 (https://link.getmailspring.com/link/BC846A37-A1BF-478B-AC0A-379CF668536B@ge…) The agenda is up here: (I need to update it as of this writing, but it's a wiki, it should be better soon) https://wiki.inkscape.org/wiki/index.php?title=Board_Meetings (https://link.getmailspring.com/link/BC846A37-A1BF-478B-AC0A-379CF668536B@ge…) Hope to see everyone there! Ted

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[vote] Gitlab gold plan
by Marc Jeanmougin 12 Oct '20

12 Oct '20

Hi board, Gitlab has updated the contract to make it clear that if there is no renewal, no one is charged and we are "simply" back to the free plan, so we can vote on it. [a] Decide on signing the attached paper and get on the Gitlab OSS program [b] Do not sign it [c] Ask for more clarifications first ? | Board Member | 1. | | -------------------- |:--:| | Bryce Harrington | | | Josh Andler | | | Tavmjong Bah | | | Ted Gould | | | Martin Owens | | | Marc Jeanmougin | | | Chris Rogers | | Thanks all, -- Mc

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[Vote] Allocate budget to apply to the Outreachy program
by Marc Jeanmougin 12 Oct '20

12 Oct '20

Hi board, as per our discussion at the last board meeting, here is a vote: [a] Allocate 6500$ of our budget to apply to the Outreachy program in a future cohort [b] Do not allocate those funds | Board Member | 1. | | -------------------- |:--:| | Bryce Harrington | | | Josh Andler | | | Tavmjong Bah | | | Ted Gould | | | Martin Owens | | | Marc Jeanmougin | | | Chris Rogers | | Thanks all, -- Mc

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Board Meeting this week!
by Ted Gould 02 Oct '20

02 Oct '20

Howdy Inkscapers, We have a board meeting this Friday, October 2nd at high noon Texas time and you're invited! In your time that is: https://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?iso=20201002T10&p1=202 There is also a list of things we plan to discuss: https://wiki.inkscape.org/wiki/index.php?title=Board_Meetings If your name is next to one of those items, and you can't make it, please make sure to designate someone in your place. It'll make the meeting flow more smoothly. See you there! Ted

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Board diversity
by Bryce Harrington 30 Sep '20

30 Sep '20

At the meeting today, Martin raised a point about improving the diversity of the board. Since we did not have full attendance I took the action to start a thread on the mailing list, so we can all discuss it prior to making any tangible proposals. Hopefully a recording of today's meeting is captured and available somewhere for Josh and Ted to review. The two points that would need worked out is first identifying a plan for recruiting for the diversity we wish to gain, and second making room on the board for new members. Let's hear everyone's thoughts and opinions on both matters. Bryce

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Inkscape 1.0.1
by Marc Jeanmougin 07 Sep '20

07 Sep '20

Inkscape 1.0.1 ============== Inkscape 1.0.1 is now released. You can download it at: https://inkscape.org/release/inkscape-1.0.1/ then, if you want to support Inkscape, donate to the project at: https://inkscape.org/support-us/ ---------------- Inkscape 1.0.1 is mainly a stability and bugfix release. It also comes with a few new features that hadn't been stable enough to make it into Inkscape 1.0: * Selectors/CSS dialog is now available * Experimental color-managed PDF export through Scribus * Many crash fixes and bugs fixed ----------------------------- 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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It's a Board Meeting!
by Ted Gould 01 Sep '20

01 Sep '20

Howdy Inkscapers! We have a board meeting this week, and you're invited! It'll be Friday at high-noon Texas-time. Some of you may not be fortunate enough to live in Texas, if so you can find the time in your timezone here: https://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?iso=20200904T10&p1=202 For an overview of what we'll be talking about you can find the agenda in the Wiki: https://wiki.inkscape.org/wiki/index.php?title=Board_Meetings See you there! Ted

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