- Inkscape Board of Directors

Future meetings/hackfests
by Bryce Harrington 22 May '18

22 May '18

Summarizing the plans from the meeting today: ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Fall 2018 - Hackfest: Kiel, Germany (Maybe September?) Coordinator: Maren Spring 2019 - SCALE: Pasadena, California (March 7-10) Coordinator: Josh & Ted - LGM: Saarbrücken, Germany (May 30-June 3) Coordinator: Tav Fall 2019 - Hackfest: TBD Coordinator: TBD ------------------------------------------------------------------------ For the Kiel hackfest, we'll need a proposal and a board vote. Maren, can you set up some pages in wiki; you can use the past hackfests for reference. What should the dates be? When it's ready I'll send out the vote. Start also contacting people that might be interested in going. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ For SCALE, probably worth doing wiki pages, if we're going to try and stimulate attendance. Josh and Ted, can you set these up? If we have enough people, should we also do a mini-hackfest for a couple days before or after the event? ------------------------------------------------------------------------ For LGM Saarbrücken, guessing we can probably do the same as for this recent one. Tav, mind setting up wiki pages for it? Bryce

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Re: [Inkscape-board] Future meetings/hackfests
by Maren Hachmann 22 May '18

22 May '18

Am 20.05.2018 um 21:12 schrieb Tavmjong Bah: > On Sun, 2018-05-20 at 18:47 +0200, Maren Hachmann wrote: >> Hi Board members, >> >> sorry for the late reply! I've been waiting on confirmation of the >> possible dates from everyone involved in trying to get a piece of the >> available rooms (they are much in demand). >> >> We can use the small conference room in the Kieler Innovations- und >> Technologiezentrum ('Kitz') from (Saturday, Sept. 8th - ) Sunday, >> Sept. >> 9th to Thursday, Sept. 13th 2018 (R007 in this pdf: >> http://www.kilux.de/downloads/Raumuebersicht.pdf) >> >> Tav has kindly already created and prepared the Wiki pages for me to >> fill in - thank you! >> >> I've added lots of info to >> http://wiki.inkscape.org/wiki/index.php/Hackfest2018_Kiel >> >> If the suggested dates don't fit with the developers and community >> members, it's going to be possible to find other dates that fit >> better. >> >> I'll start contacting people who could be interested tomorrow. >> >> If any board members would like to and can join us in Kiel, please >> let >> me know (also about your preferences for a start date). As you're all >> reading this, Tav, CR, Mc, Martin, Bryce, Josh and Ted, you won't get >> an >> extra email :) > > This looks great to me. I should be able to come. That would be cool :) Btw. I've heard back from Christoph about the color meeting in Germany that I mentioned in a previous board meeting. It has been canceled, because they achieved some of their goals already via other routes, and because they've all already been working very hard on the color specs, and couldn't invest any more time into meeting in-person. I've asked him back if there would be someone from Scribus who would potentially like to join us in Kiel. Tav, is there any specific thing or couple of things you might like to work on during a potential hackfest in Kiel? (i.e. do you have suggestions for topics already, maybe?) Maren > Tav > > PS. My email will probably be rejected by the list as my internet > provider has been marked as a source of spam. > > >

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Board meeting Friday May 4th at 10am Pacific
by Bryce Harrington 04 May '18

04 May '18

Our monthly board meeting is scheduled for this Friday, May 4th, at 10am Pacific in #inkscape-devel. All members are welcome. http://wiki.inkscape.org/wiki/index.php/Board_Meetings Agenda: ------- * LGM Debrief * Future meetings/hackfests. + [https://wiki.gnome.org/GUADEC/2018 GUADEC 2018] - July 6th-11th (Ameria, Spain) GTK conference + [http://libregraphicsmeeting.org/2019/ LGM 2019] - May 30th-June 3rd (Saarbrucken, Germany) Proposed. (About two hours by train from Paris.) + SCALE * Sponsorships * Merchandise sales + Spreadshirt [cr] + Evaluate self-serve merchandise sales - spreadshirt, cafepress, Golden Ribbon, Think Penguin or similar [Mc] * Action items * Other Business Action Items from last meeting: ------------------------------- === LGM Hackfest 2018 === ♢ ACTION: LGM 2018 reminder email [Tav] ♢ ACTION: Arrange vote on a sponsored dinner at LGM 2018 [bryce] ♢ ACTION: Clarify funding rules to include contributors to inkscape-web, 2geom (maybe more?) [Tav] === Outreachy === ♢ ACTION: Initial planning/contacts for Outreachy [bryce] Transcripts of previous meetings: --------------------------------- http://alpha.inkscape.org/board/meetings/transcripts/ Bryce

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[Fwd: Website Feedback]
by Martin Owens 03 May '18

03 May '18

Another request.

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[Fwd: Bronze Sponsor Request]
by Martin Owens 30 Apr '18

30 Apr '18

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Board meeting Fri Apr 6
by Bryce Harrington 06 Apr '18

06 Apr '18

Sorry for the late notice on this one. Our monthly board meeting is scheduled for this Friday, Apr 6th, at 10am Pacific in #inkscape-devel. All members are welcome. http://wiki.inkscape.org/wiki/index.php/Board_Meetings Agenda: + Merchandise sales [crogers] + LGM 2018 [Tav] + GSoC [ScislaC] + Other Business

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[RESEND] [REFERENDUM] Printed banner for technical events
by Bryce Harrington 28 Mar '18

28 Mar '18

----- Forwarded message from Mail Delivery System <Mailer-Daemon@...126...> ----- Date: Sun, 04 Mar 2018 02:23:19 +0000 From: Mail Delivery System <Mailer-Daemon@...126...> To: bryce@...2... Subject: Mail delivery failed: returning message to sender This message was created automatically by mail delivery software. A message that you sent could not be delivered to one or more of its recipients. This is a permanent error. The following address(es) failed: inkscape-board(a)lists.sourceforge.net host sfs-lb-ml.sog [172.30.20.202] SMTP error from remote mail server after RCPT TO:<inkscape-board(a)lists.sourceforge.net>: 550 Unknown user Reporting-MTA: dns; sfi-mx-1.v28.lw.sourceforge.com Action: failed Final-Recipient: rfc822;inkscape-board(a)lists.sourceforge.net Status: 5.0.0 Remote-MTA: dns; sfs-lb-ml.sog Diagnostic-Code: smtp; 550 Unknown user Date: Sat, 3 Mar 2018 09:35:11 -0800 From: Bryce Harrington <bryce@...2...> To: inkscape-board@...5... Cc: Tavmjong Bah <tavmjong@...47...>, Martin Owens <doctormo@...23...>, Marc Jeanmougin <marc@...143...>, Josh Andler <scislac@...23...>, Ted Gould <ted@...1...>, C R <cajhne@...23...> Subject: [REFERENDUM] Printed banner for technical events We've gotten enough votes on IRC to pass this, but re-posting here to make it official. SourceForge seems to be extremely borked right now; all my emails to the list are getting delayed. (As if we needed any further motivation to get migrated... *sigh*) Bryce ----- Forwarded message from Mail Delivery Subsystem <MAILER-DAEMON@...20...> ----- Date: Fri, 2 Mar 2018 14:13:07 -0800 From: Mail Delivery Subsystem <MAILER-DAEMON@...20...> To: bryce@...2... Subject: Warning: could not send message for past 4 hours ********************************************** ** THIS IS A WARNING MESSAGE ONLY ** ** YOU DO NOT NEED TO RESEND YOUR MESSAGE ** ********************************************** The original message was received at Fri, 2 Mar 2018 10:09:58 -0800 from static-50-53-76-183.bvtn.or.frontiernet.net [50.53.76.183] ----- Transcript of session follows ----- <inkscape-board@...5...>... Deferred: Connection timed out with mx.sourceforge.net. Warning: message still undelivered after 4 hours Will keep trying until message is 5 days old Reporting-MTA: dns; vinyl.outflux.net Arrival-Date: Fri, 2 Mar 2018 10:09:58 -0800 Final-Recipient: RFC822; inkscape-board@...5... Action: delayed Status: 4.4.1 Remote-MTA: DNS; mx.sourceforge.net Last-Attempt-Date: Fri, 2 Mar 2018 14:13:07 -0800 Will-Retry-Until: Wed, 7 Mar 2018 10:09:58 -0800 Date: Fri, 2 Mar 2018 10:09:48 -0800 From: Bryce Harrington <bryce@...2...> To: inkscape-board@...5... Subject: [REFERENDUM] Printed banner for technical events A majority vote of the current board members is required for the following matter. Proposal: --------- Create a booth banner for Inkscape to be displayed at events such as SCALE, up to a total amount of $80. - [ ] a. Yes, fund the printing of the proposed banner - [ ] b. Recommend a change - [ ] c. No, do not fund. Votes: ------ | Board Member | 1. | | -------------------- |:--:| | Bryce Harrington | a. | | Josh Andler | | | Tavmjong Bah | a. | | Ted Gould | a. | | Martin Owens | | | Marc Jeanmougin | a. | | Chris Rogers | | Resolution: ----------- Background: ----------- The Vectors team is printing a hanging banner for Inkscape to be displayed at technical conferences such as SCALE. Ryan Gorley has taken the lead on getting it designed and printed. Similarly designed banners will be created for other open source projects including GIMP, and perhaps Darktable, Krita, Kdenlive, etc. Previews of the final design can be seen here: https://gitlab.com/inkscape/vectors/general/issues/29#note_61420053 The cost estimate includes funding for the printing itself, the hardware to hang it, and packaging as needed. The labor for the design in the amount of 30 hours is being sponsored by dijt. ----- End forwarded message ----- ----- End forwarded message -----

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[REFERENDUM] Budget 2018 (v2)
by Bryce Harrington 28 Mar '18

28 Mar '18

Re-posting budget for vote. This version has additional money allocated to Hackfests, as suggested by Tav. --- A majority vote of the current board members is required for approving this budget. Proposal: --------- Allocate budget for FY2018 (03/2018 - 03/2019) following past budgets, including allocations to funding pools for hackfest sponsorships, development funding, and Vectors team marketing outreach as before. | | FY2017 | FY2017 | FY2017 | FY2018 | Total | | Funding Pool | Balance | Income | Expenses | Allocation | Pool | | ------------ | ------- | ------- | -------- | ---------- | ---------- | | + Hackfests | $15722 | $732.45 | $2,986.85 | +$8000 | $21467.60 | | + SVG WG | $2010 | $416.11 | $0 | +$0 | $2426.11 | | + GSoC Travel | | | | | $0 | | + Vectors | $100 | $0 | $0 | +$100 | $200 | | + Projects | $4500 | | $750 | +$2250 | $6000 | | + Conferences | $1000 | | | +$1000 | $2000 | | General Fund | $18414 | | $1661.95 | | $45732.29 | [ ] a. Adopt budget as shown above [ ] b. Revise budget with the following changes recommended: _____________________________________________________ _____________________________________________________ [ ] c. Do not establish a budget for this year Background: ----------- During FY2017 our total assets rose from $41,746 to $74,826, thanks to generous donors and sponsors small and large who provided Inkscape with $37,728.90 in income. Our expenses in FY2017 were lower than in past years, amounting to $4,648.80. Our last hackfest came in well under budget. We are looking at doing two hackfests this year and expect about half a dozen sponsorships; we are offering sponsorships totalling $10,000 but expect the actual expenses to be smaller. The new Vectors team is very active and will be attending SCALE and other events. They are planning use of their budget for printing of handouts and signage for technical events. This budget increases their funding pool another $100. The board will continue to review and approve expenditures as normal. FY2017 saw our first funded development work. We hope to expand this program in 2018 with more projects funded. We added a new fund last year to help cover travel costs to non-hackfest conferences and other technical events. While this was not utilized last year, we'll continue adding funds to it in hope it will be of value going forward. Votes: ------ | Board Member | 1. | | -------------------- |:--:| | Bryce Harrington | a. | | Josh Andler | | | Tavmjong Bah | | | Ted Gould | | | Martin Owens | | | Marc Jeanmougin | | | Chris Rogers | | Resolution: -----------

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Re: [Inkscape-board] Inkscape donation
by Bryce Harrington 09 Mar '18

09 Mar '18

Hi Mr. Young, I can help you with your request. We are able to earmark donations for spending specifically on hackfest expenses - typically this covers travel and lodging sponsorships for attendees. For the written explanation, would an invoice be the type of documentation you're looking for? Or are you thinking something more along the lines of a description of the event, list of attendees, etc.? As it happens, we have several Inkscape members right now at the Southern California Linux Expo (SCALE), which runs March 8-11 at the Pasadena Convention Center. Ted Gould, one of Inkscape's founders, is presenting about Inkscape tomorrow at 11:00am. Other Inkscapers attending are Ryan Gorley and Josh Andler. If you would be at all interested, I'm sure they'd all be happy to chat with you. https://www.socallinuxexpo.org/scale/16x/presentations/extending-inkscape-s… One of the most straightforward ways to help Inkscape is to become an Inkscape sponsor. It would be great to include your organization as one of our official sponsors. More info is here: https://inkscape.org/en/support-us/sponsors/ If you're interested in other, more directed ways of using funds to help development, I have been working on setting up a process for sponsoring specific development projects. I can give more info on this if you'd like. Thanks again for your generous donation! Bryce ----- Forwarded message from Martin Owens <doctormo@...23...> ----- Date: Thu, 08 Mar 2018 11:46:50 -0500 From: Martin Owens <doctormo@...23...> To: inkscape-board <inkscape-board@...5...> Subject: [Inkscape-board] [Fwd: Website Feedback] This is an interesting request. Does anyone have any good ideas about how to be sure how money will be spent for hackfests? I could say that the money will go into the pool used to transport people and allow them to stay here in Boston? Best Regards, Martin Owens Date: Thu, 08 Mar 2018 06:55:31 -0000 From: Anonymous User <danny.young@...117...> To: Martin Owens <doctormo@...23...> Subject: Website Feedback Hello, My name is Danny Young. I'm on the board of directors of ASIFA-Hollywood in Los Angeles. I'm our designated liaison with the open source community. We're interested in making a donation of $250USD with some of our funds earmarked for open source projects. The proposal is to donate towards the March Hackfest. Because this would be an international transfer for us, the board said it would be most comfortable if we could receive a written explanation of what specifically the money would go towards. As a non-profit organization these things go a long way towards keeping us in good faith with our membership. If you don't mind doing that for us then I'd be happy to forward the info along to our CFO who could make the donation. Furthermore, if you have ideas or suggestions as to how we can help support Inkscape and the open source community in general, please feel free to share that with me. I'd love to hear it. Thank you for your time. I hope to hear from you soon. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Check out the vibrant tech community on one of the world's most engaging tech sites, Slashdot.org! http://sdm.link/slashdot _______________________________________________ Inkscape-board mailing list Inkscape-board(a)lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/inkscape-board ----- End forwarded message -----

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[Fwd: Website Feedback]
by Martin Owens 09 Mar '18

09 Mar '18

This is an interesting request. Does anyone have any good ideas about how to be sure how money will be spent for hackfests? I could say that the money will go into the pool used to transport people and allow them to stay here in Boston? Best Regards, Martin Owens

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