- Inkscape Board of Directors

Bugfest and hackfest
by Tavmjong Bah 04 Nov '19

04 Nov '19

Hi, I've prepared pages on the Wiki for the proposed bugfest in December and Hackfest in May at LGM: https://wiki.inkscape.org/wiki/index.php/Bugfest2019 https://wiki.inkscape.org/wiki/index.php/Hackfest2020_Rennes Bugfest: * We need to decide on exact dates once Mc can reserve a room. Given the short lead time, it might be good to have the bugfest overlap a weekend. I'm personally available from Sunday, the 1st of December through Saturday, the 7th (except Wednesday). We need to send out invitations ASAP, especially if we'll reimburse travel costs. * I would propose that we treat this as a mini hackfest and offer reimbursement of up to $1000 for travel costs (I'll have zero cost as I live about a 20 minute drive away from the venue). We'll need a vote on this. * I've included MIT as a possible North American site but that would depend on if anybody can join Martin there. Hackfest: * I've sent an email to Elisa asking if there is space for us to have a hackfest before or after LGM. I personally can only attend if it is before. Tav

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Board meeting Oct 4th
by Bryce Harrington 29 Oct '19

29 Oct '19

Our monthly board meeting is scheduled for Friday, Oct 4th, at 10am Pacific in #inkscape-devel. All members are welcome. http://wiki.inkscape.org/wiki/index.php/Board_Meetings I unfortunately have an all-day event for work downtown on Friday, can someone else please run the Inkscape board meeting? I should be able to attend in lurk mode. Agenda: ------- * Hackfest planning * Infrastructure - mailing list migration off SourceForge - Wiki migration off OSUOSL - Weblate service deployment * Software Release status - Inkscape 1.0beta - Inkscape 1.0 * GSoC * Bug migration off Launchpad * Other Business Action Items from last meeting: ------------------------------- Transcripts of previous meetings: --------------------------------- http://alpha.inkscape.org/board/meetings/transcripts/ Bryce

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by Marc Jeanmougin 24 Sep '19

24 Sep '19

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Board meeting today at 10am
by Bryce Harrington 02 Aug '19

02 Aug '19

Super late notice but we'll go ahead with the regular board meeting at the usual time. I know a lot of folks are on vacation or unavailable right now (e.g. Tav). We'll keep the meeting short. Bryce

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board meeting postponed
by Marc Jeanmougin 12 Jul '19

12 Jul '19

Since a lot of board members can't attend this week's board meeting, it will be postponed to *next week* : July 12, 10AM EST (7pm european time) Thanks, -- Marc

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Postpone meeting this week?
by Bryce Harrington 02 Jul '19

02 Jul '19

Our monthly board meeting would normally be this Friday, but it's a holiday weekend here in the US. Ted and I at least will be unavailable that day. Would you guys mind if we cancel or postpone the meeting? Or alternatively if people want to keep it on the 5th could someone else run it this month? Bryce

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Board meeting Friday Jun 7th at 10am Pacific
by Bryce Harrington 08 Jun '19

08 Jun '19

Our monthly board meeting is scheduled for Friday, Jun 7th, at 10am Pacific in #inkscape-devel. All members are welcome. http://wiki.inkscape.org/wiki/index.php/Board_Meetings Agenda: ------- * CoC: escalation point person needed * Hackfest debrief [http://libregraphicsmeeting.org/2019/ LGM 2019] * Infrastructure ** mailing list migration off SourceForge ** Wiki migration off OSUOSL * GSoC * Other Business ** CoC Escalation Point *** Need someone to handle escalated complaints re CoC, since Krzysztof Kosiński has resigned. Hopefully someone with training or experience with conflict resolution or mediation. Not much time needed, probably would never happen, but need to be ready just in case. Currently it's vacant. ** Forums: Should a job postings area be included? *** Discuss the possibility of having something like a jobs board on the new forum. Something similar to https://forum.inkscapecommunity.com/index.php?board=12.0 Would need strict rules to prevent misuse, spam, liability, etc. Action Items from last meeting: ------------------------------- == Bug Migration == ♢ ACTION: (Blocked) Check with SFC if amounts of $100 / $50 / $25 for 1st, 2nd, 3rd is within IRS limits [bryce] ♢ ACTION: (Blocked) Hold referendum on top game prizes after confirmed by SFC [bryce] == Inkscape 1.0 beta == ♢ ACTION: Check in with people doing test case conversion [Tav] ♢ ACTION: ping jimmac/barbara about the symbolic icons for adding the theme to Inkscape [scislac] ♢ ACTION: Plan video for Inkscape 1.0 release [crogers] ♢ ACTION: Brainstorm plans for 1.0beta / 1.0 commemorative merch [crogers, tedg] === Sponsorship Management === ♢ ACTION: Find out about the new event insurance from #conservancy [tedg] Transcripts of previous meetings: --------------------------------- http://alpha.inkscape.org/board/meetings/transcripts/ Bryce

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Quick report on Hackfest
by Tavmjong Bah 07 Jun '19

07 Jun '19

Discussions during the Hackfest =============================== Fund raising and what the money is used for: We had both Krita and Gimp developers present. Krita view: Receives $6000 per month from both the Windows and Steam store. They charge $9.99. Windows does not allow links to "free" copies. Steam can handle all platforms but is difficult to set up. MacStore might have GPL issues, easier with GPL 2. Krita pays four full-time developers. Gimp view: Gimp receives lots of donations ($100,000 from one source). Gimp does not pay developers but spends its funds on buying equipment for developers and getting them together. There was general agreement that we should start charging on the Windows store. We though $19.99 was a good price. We do want to offer a free download option but that is difficult with Windows store policy. One way of working around this is to make a download link prominent on our home page (it already is) and linking to that. A second way is to have two Window store entries, one for payed and one free. We can include a link to a free version of Inkscape on the Steam store. Marc is going to look at how hard it is to put Inkscape on that store. There was general agreement that hiring a full time person to handle infrastructure/fund raising/etc. is a good idea. We also discussed the "nofollow" keyword in the links to our sponsors and how it is effecting the sponsorship renewals. Recognizing that there are two types of sponsors: those that are truly interested in promoting Inkscape and those that are using the links to raise their profile in search engines. We thought that charging extra for removing the "nofollow" keyword might be worth doing. Inkscape dependencies: This is only an issue for the Linux builds. We agreed that we should support: * Debian Stable (9) * Ubuntu Last LTS (18.04) * Last CentOS/Redhat (as best effort) * Fedora Last 2 And we shouldn't break for point releases. MacOSX: A lot of work was done on the 1.0 MaxOSX build during the hackfest. It was noted that MacOS 10.15 will no longer support 32bit builds. This will cause problems for those using the 0.92 builds. 1.0 will likely not be ready by the time 10.15 is out. One solution is to point people to the "Curated MacOSX" builds, although this is not an "Official" Inkscape build. 1.0 Release: Marc came up with a new schedule for the 1.0 release that was agreed to by those present. Key items to solve before beta: * Merge Jabier's improvements to the XML dialog (attributes/styling/selectors). * Fix missing icons on startup. Alpha 2 at end of LGM. (DONE) Extensions: There was a general annoyance with breaking API and with losing file import via Uniconvertor. Uniconvertor is no longer being packaged separately so this is not just an Inkscape problem. Hackfest dinner: We shared a space with Gimp and Krita. Bill came to 283 Euros ($321).

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[ANNOUNCE] This mailing list is moving soon!
by Bryce Harrington 29 May '19

29 May '19

The Inkscape project is upgrading its mailing lists, and will be moving off SourceForge on June 8th, 2019. Between now and then, please subscribe to the new lists at to ensure you don't miss any Inkscape discussions. Subscribe to the new list here: https://lists.inkscape.org Bryce

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[REFERENDUM] 2019 Budget
by Bryce Harrington 20 May '19

20 May '19

Proposal: --------- A majority vote of the current board members is required for approving this budget. Allocate from general fund to item pools for FY2019 (03/2019 - 03/2020) following past budgets, including for hackfest sponsorships, conference attendance, development funding, and Vectors team marketing outreach as shown in the table below: | | FY2018 | FY2018 | FY2018 | FY2019 | Total | | Funding Pool | Balance | Income | Expenses | Allocation | Pool | | ------------ | ---------- | ------- | -------- | ---------- | -------- | | + Hackfests | $21,467.60 | $887 | $16,255 | $10,000 | $16,016 | | + Conferences | $2000.00 | $0 | $35 | +$3,000 | $4,965 | | + SVG WG | $2426.11 | $78 | $0 | $0 | $2,504 | | + GSoC Travel | $0.00 | $0 | $0 | $0 | $0 | | + Vectors | $200.00 | $0 | $65 | +$1,000 | $1,135 | | + Projects | $6000.00 | $0 | $1,250 | +$2,000 | $6,750 | | General Fund | $45,732.00 | $70,625 | $6,144 | -- | $94,213 | [ ] a. Adopt allocations from general fund as shown above [ ] b. Revise budget with the following changes recommended: _____________________________________________________ _____________________________________________________ [ ] c. Do not establish a budget for this year Background: ----------- Our historical cash flow is summarized in this table: | Year | Income | Expenses | Change | Total | | ------ + ------------ + ------------ + ------------ + ----------- + | FY2006 | $3,399.50 | $0.00 | $3399.50 | $3399.50 | | FY2007 | $10,232.65 | $-4,718.00 | $5514.65 | $8914.15 | | FY2008 | $358.48 | $-460.98 | $-102.50 | $8811.65 | | FY2009 | $2,784.57 | $-500.00 | $2284.57 | $11096.22 | | FY2010 | $4,803.28 | $-2,081.60 | $2721.68 | $13817.90 | | FY2011 | $8,798.50 | $-2,314.98 | $6483.52 | $20301.42 | | FY2012 | $6,957.72 | $-1,653.90 | $5303.82 | $25605.24 | | FY2013 | $8,068.04 | $-2,501.70 | $5566.34 | $31171.58 | | FY2014 | $13,338.47 | $-9,604.68 | $3733.79 | $34905.37 | | FY2015 | $12,829.87 | $-10,970.43 | $1859.44 | $36764.81 | | FY2016 | $13,058.44 | $-8,077.25 | $4981.19 | $41746.00 | | FY2017 | $43,932.18 | $-4,772.44 | $39159.74 | $80905.74 | | FY2018 | $71,589.96 | $-23,749.24 | $47840.72 | $128746.46 | | FY2019 | $7,376.46 | $-1,873.61 | $5502.85 | $134249.31 | During FY2018 our total assets rose from $80906 to $128746, thanks to generous donors and sponsors small and large who provided Inkscape with $71,589.96 in income. Our expenses in FY2018 were higher than usual years, amounting to $-23,749, due in large part to our presence at a lot of events: LGM, two hackfests, an awards ceremony, and SCALE. While donations are continuing to increase in FY2019, for sponsorship it is less clear - with changes to Inkscape's website linking policy, most past sponsors are declining to renew this year, and solicitation of new sponsors has not yet made up the difference. Anticipated expenditures for FY2019 and actual expenses for FY2018 are shown below: | | FY2018 | FY2018 | FY2019 | FY2019 | | Expense Item | Actual | Expenses | Estimate | Est. Total | | ----------------------- | --------- | ---------- | -------- | ---------- | | Hackfests/LGM | | $16,255 | | $16,000 | | Boston | $6,502.20 | | | | | Seville (LGM) | $2,006.44 | | | | | Kiel | $7,746.56 | | | | | Pasadena (+SCALE) | | | $6,000 | | | Saarbrücken (+LGM) | | | $10,000 | | | Conferences | | $35 | | $3,000 | | Bremen OSBAR | 35.29 | | | | | Other Conferences | | | $3,000 | | | SVG WG | | | | | | GSoc Travel | | | | | | Vectors | | $65 | | $1,085 | | SCALE Booth | 65.32 | | | | | Stickers | | | $261 | | | Saarb. Booth | | | $224 | | | Other outreach | | | $600 | | | Projects | | $1,250 | | | | Mailman3 | $1,250.00 | | | | | General | | $6,144 | | $4,000 | | Trademarks reg fees | $1,275.00 | | $0 | | | Trademark legal | $300.00 | | $0 | | | Legal action | $800.00 | | $0 | | | Bank Fees | $3,754.39 | | $4000 | | | Misc | $ 14.85 | | $0 | | Like in FY2018, 2019 will also see two hackfests, but these will be done in conjunction with LGM and SCALE events which should make more efficient use of our funds, even though overall event attendance is likely to grow larger. The board has expressed an interest in seeing Inkscape attendance at more events, especially for speakers on Inkscape-related topics; this budget increases our funding pool by $3000 to a total of $4965 available. The new Vectors team is very active and will be increasing. They are planning use of their budget for printing of handouts and signage for technical events. This budget increases their funding pool to $1000. The board will continue to review and approve expenditures as normal. A contract for development of Ansible scripted Mailman3 installation was completed and paid in FY2018, enabling the Inkscape project to move from Sourceforge mailing list hosting to self-hosted services in 2019. As a final note, I've been working on creating scripts to present our budget data and summarize it in a way that helps the board make more sense of the numbers. Unfortunately, there's a lot of idiosyncracies in our ledger records (multi-currency conversions, tardy reimbursements, event miscategorization, variations in how expenses are summed up from event to event, etc.) that are tricky to account for, and hard to process mechanically (I sometimes have to rely on contextual information to figure out where each ledger post belongs). Since I've run low on time to get the scripting smart enough, I've set that aside and done it manually; oh well, maybe next year. So, the data is correct to the best of my abilities, and I'll just have to apologize if I've overlooked an item or miscalculated. Votes: ------ | Board Member | 1. | | -------------------- |:--:| | Bryce Harrington | | | Josh Andler | | | Tavmjong Bah | | | Ted Gould | | | Martin Owens | | | Marc Jeanmougin | | | Chris Rogers | | Resolution: -----------

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