- Inkscape Board of Directors

[REFERENDUM] Hackfest 2019 Pasadena (SCALE)
by Bryce Harrington 06 Jan '19

06 Jan '19

Voting is needed on funding for sponsorship of attendees at the Pasadena Hackfest planned for March 2019. Ted Gould is the hackfest organizer for this event. Proposal: --------- 1. Travel Sponsorship to Kiel Germany. - [ ] a. Reimburse specific attendees listed below for up to $2000 each, to cover airfare, lodging, and meals. - [ ] b. Reimburse using the ranked system used for the previous hackfest in Boston. - [ ] c. Reimburse with open ended limits to extent permitted by Software Conservancy policy. - [ ] d. Recommend a change: _______ - [ ] e. No, do not fund. 2. Board-sponsored Dinner. The Inkscape Board will fund a dinner out for Hackfest attendees and their guests, to be paid for by an attending board member. An estimated 8 people averaging $30 each gives a budget of $240. - [ ] a. Authorize reimbursement of up to $240 to attending board member. - [ ] b. Recommend a change: ___________ - [ ] c. No, do not fund. 3. Refreshments. The hackfest organizer will ensure there are snacks and beverages, and procure other incidentals as needed for attendees. An estimate of 8 attendees * 5 days * $5 suggests a budget of $200. - [ ] a. Authorize reimbursement of up to $200 to hackfest organizer for snacks, beverages, and other incidentals relating to the event hosting. - [ ] b. Recommend a change: _______ - [ ] c. No, do not fund. Votes: ------ | Board Member | 1. | | -------------------- |:--:| | Bryce Harrington | | | Josh Andler | | | Tavmjong Bah | | | Ted Gould | | | Martin Owens | | | Marc Jeanmougin | | | Chris Rogers | | Approved Attendees: ------------------- Resolution: ----------- Background: ----------- # Note: On resolution, CC accounting@...41..., inkscape@...41...

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Board meeting Friday Jan 4th at 10am Pacific
by Bryce Harrington 05 Jan '19

05 Jan '19

Our monthly board meeting is scheduled for Friday, Jan 4th, at 10am Pacific in #inkscape-devel. All members are welcome. http://wiki.inkscape.org/wiki/index.php/Board_Meetings Agenda: ------- * Hackfest [http://www.socallinuxexpo.org/scale/17x/ SCALE] ** March 7th-10th, 2019 (Pasadena, California) ** Need to identify potential attendees to invite. * Hackfest [http://libregraphicsmeeting.org/2019/ LGM 2019] ** May 30th-June 3rd (Saarbrucken, Germany) Proposed. ** Need event host/coordinator * Spreadshirt ** Final touchups ** Schedule for public kickoff ** Marketing * Bug tracker transition plan * Weblate service deployment * Sponsorship management + Meeting w/ Karen on Conservancy assistance + Sponsor acceptance policy + Renewal of old sponsors + Sponsor soliciting / outreach * 2019 Budget + Current balances + Plans for next year * Other Business Action Items from last meeting: ------------------------------- === SCALE + Hackfest === ♦ ACTION: Hold vote for March hackfest [bryce] ♢ ACTION: Check into pre/post SCALE meeting options & AirBNB [tedg, scislac] ♢ ACTION: Set up hackfest fundraiser web page for SCALE hackfest [maren] ♢ ACTION: Put together list of people to invite to 2019 SCALE hackfest [tedg] ♢ ACTION: Identify/recruit Inkscape presenters for SCALE [ryangorley] === LGM + Hackfest === ♦ ACTION: Send email to recruit a volunteer to coordinate May hackfest in Germany [bryce] === Merchandise Sales === ♢ ACTION: Coordinate announcement of spreadshirt with hackfest [crogers, vectors team] ♦ ACTION: Check with Conservancy on status of sticker production [doctormon] ♢ ACTION: Email Bryce with evaluation/details about hellotux.com merchandise service, for preparing board vote [crogers] ♢ ACTION: Board vote on hellotux.com [bryce] ♦ ACTION: Follow up with Cr on status of Spreadshirt rollout [bryce] === Bug Tracker Transition === ♢ ACTION: Write up an orientation web page for new bug triagers, for gitlab migration [Mc] ♢ ACTION: Announce move to gitlab for new Inkscape & 2geom bug reports, once inkscape 1.0-alpha is released [bryce] == Inkscape 1.0 alpha release == ♢ ACTION: Start Inkscape 1.0-alpha release once 2geom is released [bryce] ♢ 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] === Inkscape 0.92.4 Release === ♢ ACTION: Kickoff 0.92.4 release once 1.0-alpha is released [bryce] ♢ ACTION: Remember to put correct version string in AC_ for 0.92.4 [bryce] ♢ ACTION: Plan PR for 0.92.4 (with mention of availability of alpha) [vectors team, ryangorley] === Inkscape 1.0 Release === ♢ 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] ♢ ACTION: See if Karen or other Conservancy members will be at SCALE to discuss sponsorship management ♢ ACTION: Generate summary of our financial situation [bryce] Transcripts of previous meetings: --------------------------------- http://alpha.inkscape.org/board/meetings/transcripts/ Bryce

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Board meeting Friday Dec 7th at 10am Pacific
by Bryce Harrington 09 Dec '18

09 Dec '18

Our monthly board meeting is scheduled for Friday, Dec 7th, at 10am Pacific in #inkscape-devel. All members are welcome. http://wiki.inkscape.org/wiki/index.php/Board_Meetings Agenda: ------- * Future meetings/hackfests. ** [http://www.socallinuxexpo.org/scale/17x/ SCALE] - March 7th-10th, 2019 (Pasadena, California) ** [http://libregraphicsmeeting.org/2019/ LGM 2019] - May 30th-June 3rd (Saarbrucken, Germany) Proposed. (About two hours by train from Paris.) * Merchandise sales ** Spreadshirt ** Evaluate self-serve merchandise sales - spreadshirt, cafepress, Golden Ribbon, Think Penguin or similar [Mc] * Bug tracker transition plan * Weblate service deployment * Sponsorship management + Meeting w/ Karen on Conservancy assistance + Sponsor acceptance policy + Sponsorship procedures & defined contact point + Sponsor soliciting / outreach * Action Items * Other Business Action Items from last meeting: ------------------------------- === SCALE === ♢ ACTION: Check into pre/post SCALE meeting options & AirBNB [tedg, scislac] ♢ ACTION: Propose some options and concrete plans for hackfest at SCALE [tedg] ♢ ACTION: Email board about status on SCALE venues by Nov 9th [tedg] ♢ ACTION: Lock in commitment for SCALE hackfest venue by Nov 16th, else plan to reschedule hackfest [tedg] ♢ ACTION: Set up hackfest fundraiser web page for SCALE hackfest ♢ ACTION: Put together list of people to invite to 2019 SCALE hackfest [tedg] ♢ ACTION: Identify/recruit Inkscape presenters for SCALE [ryangorley] === Merchandise Sales === ♢ ACTION: Coordinate announcement of spreadshirt with hackfest [crogers, vectors team] ♢ ACTION: Check with Conservancy on status of sticker production [doctormon] ♢ ACTION: Email Bryce with evaluation/details about hellotux.com merchandise service, for preparing board vote [crogers] ♢ ACTION: Board vote on hellotux.com [bryce] ♢ ACTION: Follow up with Cr on status of Spreadsheet rollout [bryce] === 0.92.4 Release === ♢ ACTION: Kickoff 0.92.4 release [bryce] ♢ ACTION: Remember to put correct version string in AC_ for 0.92.4 [bryce] ♢ ACTION: Start 0.92.4 release once Inkscape 1.0-alpha is released [bryce] ♢ ACTION: Plan PR for 0.92.4 (with mention of availability of alpha) [vectors team, ryangorley] == Inkscape 1.0 alpha release == ♢ ACTION: Start Inkscape 1.0-alpha release once 2geom is released [bryce] ♢ 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] === Bug Tracking === ♦ ACTION: Recruit folks to help plan gitlab bugs transition [bryce] ♢ ACTION: Write up an orientation web page for new bug triagers, for gitlab migration [Mc] ♢ ACTION: Announce move to gitlab for new Inkscape & 2geom bug reports, once inkscape 1.0-alpha is released [bryce] === Trademarks === ♦ ACTION: Ask SFC opinion for widening our trademark registrations beyond US [bryce] === 1.0 Release === ♢ ACTION: Brainstorm plans for 1.0beta / 1.0 commemorative merch [crogers, tedg] Transcripts of previous meetings: --------------------------------- http://alpha.inkscape.org/board/meetings/transcripts/ Bryce

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Re: [Inkscape-board] Support Conservancy's Year-end fundraiser?
by unknown＠example.com 22 Nov '18

22 Nov '18

I've created a new inkscape-vector issue to track and hopefully attract a person who can coordinate what we should do: https://gitlab.com/inkscape/vectors/general/issues/76 Deb: Does the conservancy have a media pack and press release? These would make it easier to roll out a news article and create banners etc. Best Regards, Martin Owens On Wed, 2018-11-21 at 12:30 -0500, Deb Nicholson wrote: > Hi Project Representatives! > > As some of you may know, we're in the process of fundraising for > general Conservancy donations - so we can raise the money we need to > help you! The administrative percentage we receive from our member > projects together doesn't pay for all the work we do for our projects > so we are always going full tilt to get everything done and fund our > scrappy staff of four people while supporting nearly 50 projects. > > Private Internet Access, along with eight individual donors have > challenged us to raise $90K by mid-January. That sounds like a long > time, but we are competing with many other worthy causes for > attention > -- and financial support at this time of year. As member project > reps, > you are uniquely positioned to help us reach just a few more of the > people who care deeply about free software. > > Things that our member projects have done in the past that have been > really helpful: > > * Using social media to share and promote the fundraiser > * Posting an item on techy or nerdy websites, like Reddit, Hackernews > or Slashdot > * Putting an enthusiastic announcement up on your project website > * Emailing your community list(s) where free software supporters hang > out > * Adding a banner to your project website > * Writing blogposts about our shared work (we could post this on > Conservancy's site!) > * Recording a short video saying why you support Conservancy and > asking > others to support us too! > > Anything you can do to help us amplify the message about > Conservancy's > work and this match would be so appreciated! And let us know if we > can > return the favor and share any fundraising or year-end news you've > got > happening -- we're always up for sharing what our member projects > have > happening! > > Thanks so much!! > Deb >

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Moving from Inkscapeforum. Do we need to vote?
by C R 14 Nov '18

14 Nov '18

Brynn has been trying to get in touch with InkscapeForum hosts for three months regarding the possibility of bringing it under the project's control, since it has served our community for so long as the go-to for Inkscape help and community questions. Three months down the line, no response. Since it's not moving forward, and indeed the hosts may not even be active in the community anymore, our thoughts are to set up an official Inkscape forum to host our community ourselves. Of course, this is no small decision, so I thought I'd bring it to the board for a vote. The options as I see it are: A. Make our own forum, which we can link off the official website, and begin answering questions there to migrate users to the official site. B. Wait longer and hope the hosts of Inkscapeforum contact us back at some point. C. Something else Open to alternatives, but since Brynn and other forum gurus are leaning towards setting up our own forums, I figured we owe it to them to get a good answer and solid direction as soon as possible. Thanks for your attention! -C

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Board meeting Friday Nov 2nd at 10am Pacific
by Bryce Harrington 03 Nov '18

03 Nov '18

Our monthly board meeting is scheduled for Friday, Nov 2nd, at 10am Pacific in #inkscape-devel. All members are welcome. http://wiki.inkscape.org/wiki/index.php/Board_Meetings Agenda: ------- * Future meetings/hackfests. ** [http://www.socallinuxexpo.org/scale/17x/ SCALE] - March 7th-10th, 2019 (Pasadena, California) ** [http://libregraphicsmeeting.org/2019/ LGM 2019] - May 30th-June 3rd (Saarbrucken, Germany) Proposed. (About two hours by train from Paris.) * Merchandise sales ** Spreadshirt ** Evaluate self-serve merchandise sales - spreadshirt, cafepress, Golden Ribbon, Think Penguin or similar [Mc] * Inkscape 1.0 alpha release & bug strategy * Infrastructure + Bug tracking transition + Weblate service deployment * Trademarks - Should we pursue registration in locations other than the US? * Action Items * Other Business Action Items from last meeting: ------------------------------- == Merchandise Sales == ♢ ACTION: Coordinate announcement of spreadshirt with hackfest [crogers, vectors team] ♢ ACTION: Check with Conservancy on status of sticker production [doctormon] ♢ ACTION: Email Bryce with evaluation/details about hellotux.com merchandise service, for preparing board vote [crogers] ♢ ACTION: Board vote on hellotux.com [bryce] === Future meetings/hackfests === ♢ ACTION: Check into pre/post SCALE meeting options & AirBNB [tedg, scislac] ♢ ACTION: Propose some options and concrete plans for hackfest at SCALE [tedg] ♢ ACTION: Review hackfest fundraising in/out progress [bryce] === 0.92.4 Release === ♢ ACTION: Kickoff 0.92.4 release [bryce] ♢ ACTION: Remember to put correct version string in AC_ for 0.92.4 [bryce] === 1.0 Release === ♢ 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] ♢ ACTION: Review bug fix list http://wiki.inkscape.org/wiki/index.php/1.0_Release_Bug_Fix_List [bryce] Transcripts of previous meetings: --------------------------------- http://alpha.inkscape.org/board/meetings/transcripts/ Bryce

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Request for Sponsorship
by unknown＠example.com 27 Oct '18

27 Oct '18

This one is an interesting request that might need some discussion. See attached.

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Inkscape polos are ready!
by C R 25 Oct '18

25 Oct '18

https://www.hellotux.com/inkscape They want to give 3 euros per sale to Inkscape. Can someone liase with them to get them the information to make payment to Inkscape? Our contact is : Gabor Kum friends@...164... Thanks all! -C

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[Fwd: Website Feedback]
by unknown＠example.com 25 Oct '18

25 Oct '18

Another sponsor request.

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[Fwd: Platinum Sponsor Request]
by unknown＠example.com 22 Oct '18

22 Oct '18

A request.

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