- Inkscape Board of Directors

Inkscape Board Meeting
by Bryce Harrington 04 Jan '18

04 Jan '18

Our monthly board meeting is scheduled for next Friday, Jan 5th, 10am Pacific time in #inkscape-devel. All members are welcome. http://wiki.inkscape.org/wiki/index.php/Board_Meetings Agenda: + Madras Printer's and Lithographers' Association + Boston Hackfest (March) + Merchandise sales + Board election process review [tedg] + DigitalOcean Infrastructure hosting [bryce] + Preliminary preparations for 0.93 [tav] + Other Business Bryce

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[Fwd: Platinum Sponsor Request]
by Martin Owens 28 Dec '17

28 Dec '17

This seems like a very interesting sponsorship proposition. It fits with what we do and would be useful for them too. I'm not sure what extra services they may want in terms of training and etc. but we can probably work that out. Merry Regards, Martin Owens

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Re: [Inkscape-board] [Inkscape-devel] Request for hosting sponsorship for the Inkscape Project
by Bryce Harrington 27 Dec '17

27 Dec '17

Hi Monifa, Thank you for your generous offer, and we're looking forward to initiating services with you in 2018. We're in process of working with our non-profit organization regarding the legal/financial arrangements; I will contact you once that work is complete and we have an account registered. We will look forward to including your badge on our site this coming year. Thanks again, Bryce On Thu, Nov 02, 2017 at 02:36:52PM -0400, DO Sponsorships wrote: > Hi Bryce, > > Thank you for reaching out and your interest in DigitalOcean hosting your > project. > > We’d be proud to support your endeavor by offering you $500 in DigitalOcean > hosting credit. Unfortunately, due to the number of requests we receive, we > cannot offer any more than that. If you would like to accept our offer, > please email us back with your DigitalOcean email login and we’ll credit > the account directly there. > > Should you have the opportunity to display who hosts your project, you can > find our logos/badges here: https://www.digitalocean.com/ > company/logos-and-badges/ > > Let us know if you have any questions/concerns, or if there is anything > else we can assist you with. > > Warm regards, > > Monifa Contaste > > > > On Sun, Oct 15, 2017 at 1:53 AM, Ryan Gorley <ryan@...148...> wrote: > > > Good DO Peeps, > > I've forwarded a call for a new hosting sponsor for the Inkscape > > <https://inkscape.org/en/> project. This is a well-established, > > broadly-used, open source project. A recent survey showed that a > > substantial portion of its users match the profile for potential DO > > customers: > > > > - 41% UI/UX Designers > > - 27% Web Developers > > - 27% Web Designers > > - 26% Software Engineers > > - 16% Scientists/Researchers > > > > I've been a long-time DO user and naturally thought of you when I saw this > > email. I've cc'd Bryce Harrington, who is one of the project founders and > > the originator of the request. It seems like there would be great synergy > > is such a sponsorship, and I hope you'll reach out to Bryce. Thanks for > > being so willing to use your influence to make the world more awesome. > > > > *Ryan Gorley* > > Managing Partner | Dijt > > <https://dijt.co> > > > > 1.801.999.1530 <(801)%20999-1530> ×101 | 1.801.898.7926 <(801)%20898-7926> > > 3336 S 300 E, Salt Lake City, UT 84115 > > <https://maps.google.com/?q=3336+S+300+E,+Salt+Lake+City,+UT+84115&entry=gma…> > > > > ---------- Forwarded message ---------- > > From: Bryce Harrington <bryce@...2...> > > Date: Thu, Oct 12, 2017 at 12:51 PM > > Subject: [Inkscape-devel] Request for hosting sponsorship for the Inkscape > > Project > > To: inkscape-announce@...5..., inkscape-devel@...5... > > > > > > Inkscape is seeking to improve its online service hosting. To this end > > we're soliciting proposals for donation/sponsorship of hosting services > > for the project. > > > > The Inkscape Project is a non-profit, volunteer-driven organization that > > develops and maintains the popular Inkscape vector drawing software, > > provided freely to millions of artists, designers, and other drawers of > > lines. Our website is at http://www.inkscape.org > > > > If you would be interested in sponsoring us through a donation of > > hosting service, we would be happy to add you to our sponsors page, with > > a mention & link on our main website's footer. Proposals can be sent to > > me as contact point. These will be presented to Inkscape's board, who > > will make the final determination in about a month's time. > > > > > > == Background == > > > > We currently have various services hosted at a number of different > > locations with widely varying administrative capacities. We would like > > to centralize the administration of these services, such as > > consolidating them onto one platform. We also want room and flexibility > > to easily install additional services as we grow. > > > > Services high on our priority list to migrate soon include mailing > > lists, Mattermost, and wiki. Bug tracking, web forum and gitlab are > > potential secondary priorities. Our Django-based main website may also > > be worth consolidating at some point in the future. > > > > For redundancy, we'd like to engage two distinct hosts, with one as a > > primary and the other backup/space, preferrably in geographically > > distinct areas (e.g. Europe and Canada). > > > > > > == Requirements == > > > > We think that a suitable machine would look something like this: > > > > Minimum Desired > > Required Ideal > > CPU: dual core quad core > > RAM: 4 gb 256 gb > > Storage: 500GB >1 TB (HW RAID-1) > > HDD SDD > > Bandwidth: 1 TB/mo 2 TB/mo > > OS: Any linux Ubuntu 16.04 > > > > We like the straightforwardness of physical (metal) hardware, but could > > consider virtual options if we can get similar levels of flexibility and > > expandability. > > > > > > * UPS power backup > > > > * 24h support at the datacenter > > - For hardware (metal) options, a technician would need to be > > available for handling hardware issues, to do OS > > installation/reinstallation, hook up KVM/IP if available, and to > > investigate faults that can't be diagnosed remotely. > > > > * Server would be under the administrative and technical management of > > the Inkscape admin team (about 6-8 people). We would have root access > > to the machine for doing system updates and to install/configure > > software and services. > > > > * We expect to be managing/maintaining our software ourselves. Items we > > anticipate migrating to this include (in rough order of priority): > > > > + Mailman3 > > + Mattermost > > + Wiki (mediawiki currently) > > + Forum (e.g. hosting for inkscapeforum.com) > > + Bug tracker (TBD) > > + Gitlab > > + Other project management tools > > + Website / Django > > > > * Inkscape does not handle anything particularly controversial. No > > copyright infringing materials, nothing political, nothing > > intentionally offensive. Our windows binary has been false-positived > > by virus software in the past, but we clear this up ourselves. > > > > * Currently our website hosting is sponsored and managed by OSUOSL. > > It's a root access virtual machine running postgresql, memcached, > > nginx and the django site itself. Memory usage is 450MiB per web host > > thread, currently 2 threads, plus 500MB for postgresql and 500MB for > > memcache. CDN is hosted by Fastly, currently serving 32TB per month > > for Inkscape (1:1.5 ratio US:EU, so more EU hits overall). There's > > enough dynamic content that we still see a decent load (1/2 TB/mo) on > > the server, notably around major releases (once every year or two); we > > are continuously tweaking optimizations. > > > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------ > > ------------------ > > Check out the vibrant tech community on one of the world's most > > engaging tech sites, Slashdot.org! http://sdm.link/slashdot > > _______________________________________________ > > Inkscape-devel mailing list > > Inkscape-devel(a)lists.sourceforge.net > > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/inkscape-devel > > > > > > > -- > > > We're hiring! <https://www.digitalocean.com/company/careers/> | > digitalocean.com | @digitalocean <https://twitter.com/digitalocean>

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spreadshirt merch
by C R 27 Dec '17

27 Dec '17

So after setting up a gpg key, and looking over bzr documentation to try and get access to the password for spreadshirt, to then set up shirts and other merchandise for Inkscape, i realise i don't have enough time at the moment to learn bzr and do artwork for the store. Please let me know which activity I should do with my very limited time. Thanks. -C

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liberapay
by Nathan Hurst 11 Dec '17

11 Dec '17

Hi board, Due to the recent cash grab by patreon, I have moved all my funding to liberapay. Inkscape does not appear to have an account with liberapay, and furthermore, there is a 'fork' account which we might want to investigate. https://liberapay.com/search?q=inkscape -- Nathan Hurst njh@...19...

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Re: [Inkscape-board] [REFERENDUM] Accept hosting sponsorship from DigitalOcean
by C R 01 Dec '17

01 Dec '17

A - Yes as long as there is no obligation to stay after the 500 is spent. It will likely give us an idea of how much we need to spend for hosting. Also, we may be able to convince them to give us another package for promoting their services. Digital ocean is very well known and supports all sorts of FLOSS projects, podcasts, etc. I think they deserve our support as well if we can set that up in the future. If not, well we can explore other options in the mean time. On 30 Nov 2017 05:17, "Bryce Harrington" <bryce@...2...> wrote: On Wed, Nov 29, 2017 at 09:03:20PM -0500, Martin Owens wrote: > b. No > > There are questions I have about an on going committment. A one year > credit will doom us to pay Digital Ocean in the future, a $500 credit > /per year/ would be better. > > I'd rather no invest the sys-admin time into a platform that we don't > know what will happen in a year's time. Totally valid concerns there, although I think you've misunderstood - it's not a one year credit, it's a $500 credit we can stretch as far as we want. The entry level node is $5/mo, and even bumped up a few levels it could last for multiple years. I too would prefer a more open ended sponsorship with higher capacity hosting, but there's no guarantee of finding one. These nodes appear to be pretty standard Ubuntu 16.04 images with docker and other typical provisioning. If service installation is done orderly and kept well-documented, migration to another platform (if we can find one) could be expected to be fairly straightforward. I could imagine using this as our backup host, if we were lucky in securing a higher capacity host at some point in the future. Finally, yes, I get your concerns about not wanting to invest your sysadmin time on a platform that may end up being temporary, so will impose no expectations on you. To some degree I can probably handle it myself, but my plan would be to establish it as co-maintained by several volunteers in order to avoid bottlenecking. Bryce > Best Regards, Martin Owens > > On Wed, 2017-11-29 at 17:32 -0800, Bryce Harrington wrote: > > Your vote is needed to accept hosting sponsorship from DigitalOcean. > > > > 1. Accept DigitalOcean's offer of $500 credit on their virtual > > hosting > > system for use in provisioning various Inkscape web > > services. Add > > DigitalOcean as a Bronze level sponsor for 2018. Authorize > > Conservancy to initiate registration with DigitalOcean for > > Inkscape. > > > > - [ ] a. Yes, accept DigitalOcean's sponsorship > > - [ ] b. No > > > > Votes: > > ------ > > > > > > > > Board Member | 1. | > > > -------------------- |:--:| > > > Bryce Harrington | | > > > Josh Andler | | > > > Tavmjong Bah | | > > > Ted Gould | | > > > Martin Owens | | > > > Marc Jeanmougin | | > > > Chris Rogers | | > > > > Resolved: > > --------- > > > > Background: > > ----------- > > > > In 2017, the Inkscape Board [solicited sponsorship offers][1] for web > > hosting. We [received an offer][2] from DigitalOcean that provides > > a credit for $500 in service on their virtual hosting platform. It > > doesn't match all the requirements we had called for, but it may be > > able > > to address near term service needs while we continue our search. > > > > Registration with DigitalOcean requires entry of financial > > information > > so will need to be performed by the Software Freedom Conservancy > > staff > > for us. This vote authorizes them to do so. > > > > [1]: https://sourceforge.net/p/inkscape/mailman/message/36074233/ > > [2]: https://www.mail-archive.com/inkscape-board@...149... > > t/msg01019.html > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------- > > ----------- > > 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 ------------------------------------------------------------ ------------------ 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

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Inkscape Board Meeting
by Bryce Harrington 30 Nov '17

30 Nov '17

Our monthly board meeting is scheduled for this friday, December 1st, 10am Pacific time in #inkscape-devel. All members are welcome. http://wiki.inkscape.org/wiki/index.php/Board_Meetings Agenda: + Board election process review [tedg] + Infrastructure backup/alternate hosting + Preparations for 0.93 + Merchandise sales + Hackfest + Other Business

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Sponsor for (limited) infrastructure hosting
by Bryce Harrington 22 Nov '17

22 Nov '17

Digital Ocean has taken interest in helping us with our infrastructure needs, with the offer listed below. It's not a perfect match for the requirements I had in mind, and will be too limited in storage and bandwidth to address all the services we'd like. It's also just one host, where we were aiming for a pair. However, it looks like it could handle a few services for Inkscape, which would at least give us a near term starting point. Would anyone have an objection if I proceeded with getting signed up with them and secure the hosting credit? Then I can have some time to test it out and report next meeting as to plans. Meanwhile, I'd like to continue our hosting search for at least one more host, to complete our pair. Bryce ----- Forwarded message from DO Sponsorships <sponsorships@...147...> ----- Date: Thu, 2 Nov 2017 14:36:52 -0400 From: DO Sponsorships <sponsorships@...147...> To: Ryan Gorley <ryan@...148...>, bryce@...2... Subject: Re: [Inkscape-devel] Request for hosting sponsorship for the Inkscape Project Hi Bryce, Thank you for reaching out and your interest in DigitalOcean hosting your project. We’d be proud to support your endeavor by offering you $500 in DigitalOcean hosting credit. Unfortunately, due to the number of requests we receive, we cannot offer any more than that. If you would like to accept our offer, please email us back with your DigitalOcean email login and we’ll credit the account directly there. Should you have the opportunity to display who hosts your project, you can find our logos/badges here: https://www.digitalocean.com/ company/logos-and-badges/ Let us know if you have any questions/concerns, or if there is anything else we can assist you with. Warm regards, Monifa Contaste On Sun, Oct 15, 2017 at 1:53 AM, Ryan Gorley <ryan@...148...> wrote: > Good DO Peeps, > I've forwarded a call for a new hosting sponsor for the Inkscape > <https://inkscape.org/en/> project. This is a well-established, > broadly-used, open source project. A recent survey showed that a > substantial portion of its users match the profile for potential DO > customers: > > - 41% UI/UX Designers > - 27% Web Developers > - 27% Web Designers > - 26% Software Engineers > - 16% Scientists/Researchers > > I've been a long-time DO user and naturally thought of you when I saw this > email. I've cc'd Bryce Harrington, who is one of the project founders and > the originator of the request. It seems like there would be great synergy > is such a sponsorship, and I hope you'll reach out to Bryce. Thanks for > being so willing to use your influence to make the world more awesome. > > *Ryan Gorley* > Managing Partner | Dijt > <https://dijt.co> > > 1.801.999.1530 <(801)%20999-1530> ×101 | 1.801.898.7926 <(801)%20898-7926> > 3336 S 300 E, Salt Lake City, UT 84115 > <https://maps.google.com/?q=3336+S+300+E,+Salt+Lake+City,+UT+84115&entry=gma…> > > ---------- Forwarded message ---------- > From: Bryce Harrington <bryce@...2...> > Date: Thu, Oct 12, 2017 at 12:51 PM > Subject: [Inkscape-devel] Request for hosting sponsorship for the Inkscape > Project > To: inkscape-announce@...5..., inkscape-devel@...5... > > > Inkscape is seeking to improve its online service hosting. To this end > we're soliciting proposals for donation/sponsorship of hosting services > for the project. > > The Inkscape Project is a non-profit, volunteer-driven organization that > develops and maintains the popular Inkscape vector drawing software, > provided freely to millions of artists, designers, and other drawers of > lines. Our website is at http://www.inkscape.org > > If you would be interested in sponsoring us through a donation of > hosting service, we would be happy to add you to our sponsors page, with > a mention & link on our main website's footer. Proposals can be sent to > me as contact point. These will be presented to Inkscape's board, who > will make the final determination in about a month's time. > > > == Background == > > We currently have various services hosted at a number of different > locations with widely varying administrative capacities. We would like > to centralize the administration of these services, such as > consolidating them onto one platform. We also want room and flexibility > to easily install additional services as we grow. > > Services high on our priority list to migrate soon include mailing > lists, Mattermost, and wiki. Bug tracking, web forum and gitlab are > potential secondary priorities. Our Django-based main website may also > be worth consolidating at some point in the future. > > For redundancy, we'd like to engage two distinct hosts, with one as a > primary and the other backup/space, preferrably in geographically > distinct areas (e.g. Europe and Canada). > > > == Requirements == > > We think that a suitable machine would look something like this: > > Minimum Desired > Required Ideal > CPU: dual core quad core > RAM: 4 gb 256 gb > Storage: 500GB >1 TB (HW RAID-1) > HDD SDD > Bandwidth: 1 TB/mo 2 TB/mo > OS: Any linux Ubuntu 16.04 > > We like the straightforwardness of physical (metal) hardware, but could > consider virtual options if we can get similar levels of flexibility and > expandability. > > > * UPS power backup > > * 24h support at the datacenter > - For hardware (metal) options, a technician would need to be > available for handling hardware issues, to do OS > installation/reinstallation, hook up KVM/IP if available, and to > investigate faults that can't be diagnosed remotely. > > * Server would be under the administrative and technical management of > the Inkscape admin team (about 6-8 people). We would have root access > to the machine for doing system updates and to install/configure > software and services. > > * We expect to be managing/maintaining our software ourselves. Items we > anticipate migrating to this include (in rough order of priority): > > + Mailman3 > + Mattermost > + Wiki (mediawiki currently) > + Forum (e.g. hosting for inkscapeforum.com) > + Bug tracker (TBD) > + Gitlab > + Other project management tools > + Website / Django > > * Inkscape does not handle anything particularly controversial. No > copyright infringing materials, nothing political, nothing > intentionally offensive. Our windows binary has been false-positived > by virus software in the past, but we clear this up ourselves. > > * Currently our website hosting is sponsored and managed by OSUOSL. > It's a root access virtual machine running postgresql, memcached, > nginx and the django site itself. Memory usage is 450MiB per web host > thread, currently 2 threads, plus 500MB for postgresql and 500MB for > memcache. CDN is hosted by Fastly, currently serving 32TB per month > for Inkscape (1:1.5 ratio US:EU, so more EU hits overall). There's > enough dynamic content that we still see a decent load (1/2 TB/mo) on > the server, notably around major releases (once every year or two); we > are continuously tweaking optimizations. > > > ------------------------------------------------------------ > ------------------ > Check out the vibrant tech community on one of the world's most > engaging tech sites, Slashdot.org! http://sdm.link/slashdot > _______________________________________________ > Inkscape-devel mailing list > Inkscape-devel(a)lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/inkscape-devel > > -- We're hiring! <https://www.digitalocean.com/company/careers/> | digitalocean.com | @digitalocean <https://twitter.com/digitalocean> ----- End forwarded message -----

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[Fwd: Website Feedback]
by Martin Owens 06 Nov '17

06 Nov '17

Probably rubbish, but sending along anyway.

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Inkscape sponsor requirements
by C R 05 Nov '17

05 Nov '17

Hey all. As requested of me at the board meeting, I've typed up a "common sense" draft of what I think is in-line with the project's purpose and goals. I thought about all the ways I could think of that a sponsor could make the project look bad with their actions, so here's the result: Sponsorship Requirements: The Inkscape project was founded to serve a world-wide community of artists, hobbyists, designers, scientists, engineers, and people everywhere by providing free and open source software (FLOSS) tools for vector graphics production. Since our sponsorship offerings include the service of exposure on our website, we require that all sponsors meet the following criteria to ensure a mutual compatibility with the spirit of the Inkscape Project. Thus to qualify for sponsorship, a sponsor must be: 1. A Legal, Law-Abiding Business - Must be registered as a business, pay taxes, and maintain a good standing with their customer base, and the country(s) in which they do business. 2. Politically Neutral - Our community is vast, and serves users from all walks of life and political views. The Inkscape Project does not, and therefore must not be seen to support one any particular ideology (beyond that of our belief in the essential software freedoms), and thus can not accept support from organisations of a political or religious nature. 3. Supportive of User Freedoms - A sponsor must not have a history of abusing user freedoms. This includes the sale of and promotion of proprietary software as part of the sponsor's core business, which we consider incompatible with the project's goals of user freedom. 4. Supportive of the Environment and the Future - The Inkscape Project can not accept donations from companies which promote the destruction of the environment. This includes companies which fund climate change denialism, anti-science groups, and members of the tobacco and fossil fuel industries. 5. Supportive of Equal Rights, Free Speech and Gender Equality - A sponsor must not fund groups which seek to deny the rights and freedoms of others based on gender, race, creed, religion (or lack thereof), or sexual preference. If a sponsor is found at odds with any of these essential compatibility points, the Inkscape Project reserves the right to pull the sponsor from our website, at which point a prorated refund of the donation amount will be returned to the sponsor.

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