- Inkscape Board of Directors

[REFERENDUM] Hackfest attendance for Ryan Gorley
by Bryce Harrington 09 Feb '18

09 Feb '18

A majority vote of the current board members is required for the following matter. Proposal: --------- Reimburse Ryan Gorley up to $1000 for travel expenses to attend the 2018 Inkscape Hackfest in Boston. - [ ] a. Yes, approve the reimbursement as stated above. - [ ] b. No, do not approve reimbursement as stated above. Votes: ------ | Board Member | 1. | | -------------------- |:--:| | Bryce Harrington | | | Josh Andler | | | Tavmjong Bah | | | Ted Gould | | | Martin Owens | | | Marc Jeanmougin | | | Chris Rogers | | Resolution: ----------- Background: ----------- Ryan Gorley is lead for Inkscape's Vectors team, in which role he is heavily involved in marketing, fundraising, and infrastructure activities for the project. He will be bringing camera equipment (tripod, lighting, etc.) to the event for capturing interviews and audio recording. Due to this activity his attendance at the 2018 Hackfest in Boston is vital to the project. He is a relatively new member of Inkscape (will be 11 months as of the date of the event), however, and the types of contributions he makes are not directly measurable as patches, so the established hackfest reimbursement rules do not cover the expected expenses for his attendance. His sponsorship was discussed at the Feb 2018 Inkscape Board meeting and there was a rough consensus favoring holding a vote for sponsoring him. Martin Owens has offered to share lodging, so Ryan's expected expenses should total less than $1000, which is the allocation level we generally provide for 1-year contributors. Note, this resolution does not increase the budget for the hackfest nor does it open up invitations to any other person without board consent.

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[REFERENDUM] Accept hosting sponsorship from DigitalOcean
by Bryce Harrington 08 Feb '18

08 Feb '18

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@lists.sourceforge.net/msg01019.…

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Inkscape Board Meeting
by Bryce Harrington 03 Feb '18

03 Feb '18

Our monthly board meeting is scheduled for this Friday, Feb 2nd, 10am Pacific time in #inkscape-devel. All members are welcome. http://wiki.inkscape.org/wiki/index.php/Board_Meetings (Note that a Release Team meeting will follow immediately after. The Vectors Team will be meeting the next day, Saturday the 3rd.) Agenda: + Madras Printer's and Lithographers' Association + Boston Hackfest (March) [doctormo] + Merchandise sales [crogers] + Board election process review [tedg] + Infrastructure hosting [bryce] + LGM 2018 [Tav] + GSoC [ScislaC] + Other Business Action Items from last meeting: ♦ ACTION: Re-ping Madras Printer's and Lithographer's Assoc. [bryce] ♢ ACTION: Find out who did the Indian language translation [Tav/Moini] ♢ ACTION: Calls for fundraising for the hackfest [bryce/Moini] ♦ ACTION: Arrange vote for Boston hackfest [bryce] ♦ ACTION: Arrange vote for LGM [bryce] ♦ ACTION: Port credential repo changes from bzr to git [doctormo] ♦ ACTION: Move credentials repo to a new git project [bryce] ♦ ACTION: Ping Brett regarding DigitalOcean [bryce] ♦ ACTION: Investigate CloudScale.ch [bryce] ♢ ACTION: Kickoff the 0.92.3 release [bryce] ♢ ACTION: Arrange vote on Budget 2018 [bryce] ♦ ACTION: Connect with Diego about CMYK planning [bryce] ♦ ACTION: Kickoff GSoC 2018 registration [ScislaC] ♢ ACTION: Make a list of projects for cleaning up our code base [Tav] ♢ ACTION: Pursue the RedHat option for the hackfest [doctormo] ♢ ACTION: Send invites to old Inkscapers to attend hackfest [bryce] ♢ ACTION: Collect CMYK ideas into Color_management wiki page [alface] Bryce

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credentials repo moved to new location
by Bryce Harrington 30 Jan '18

30 Jan '18

Just a quick note that the credentials repository has been moved, as discussed last board meeting. When we switched from bzr to git, the credentials repository was moved over as a branch of the inkscape codebase. Apart from being awkward it also made it very slow to download (since it was downloading the entirety of the inkscape code history, only to replace all the code with the credentials stuff...) Anyway, I exported the git history and imported it as a new project, which will live here in its new permanent location: https://gitlab.com/inkscape/infra/credentials I've also made this private to logged in Inkscape project team members only. No one outside our project should really need this so I think that is appropriate. Let me know if you run into problems, and I can adjust permissions and things to improve convenience. (You'll also notice I'm putting project internal service-ish stuff like this into a subcategory 'infra'. As we go through updating mailing lists, wiki, forums and other such things we can use this to collect random bits and pieces like service configs here.) Bryce

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[Fwd: Platinum Sponsor Request]
by Bryce Harrington 30 Jan '18

30 Jan '18

Hello Mr. Visvakumar, The Inkscape board members were very pleased to hear of your interest, and look forward to partnership with you in achieving these goals. Thank you for your interest in platinum level sponsorship. There are several ways to process the $10,000US, listed at https://inkscape.org/en/support-us/donate/, including paypal, check/money order, or wire transfer. This donations is fully tax-deductable. We will follow up with more detailed proposals for technical and training support. Thanks, Bryce ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Dear, I am G N Visvakumar, President of Madras Printers' and Lithographer's Association and also a part of The All India Federation of Master Printers which represents around 2,50,000 printers across India. Most of the designers and printers in India are using Coreldraw and Adobe Illustrator, Indesign softwares. Though India is a very big market the prices of the above products are very high and not affordable to the small printers of India. Moreover Adobe is now available in Cloud only and it is almost impossible for the small printers and designers. Recently Adobe and Coreldraw are harassing the designers and printers to buy licence for all the systems they use, whether they use them for designing or not. In this circumstances we are searching for softwares which is more or less equivalent or better in performance of Coreldraw and Adobe products. We are ready to support such programmes. Please send us a detailed mail what you require from us Financial Support, Technical Support Training Support etc. An early reply is highly appreciated. G.N. Visvakumar President, Madras Printer's and Lithographers' Association Chennai, India. Mobile : +91 81480 40818 / 94442 40818 Inkscape-board mailing list Inkscape-board(a)lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/inkscape-board

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Future hackfest ideas
by Bryce Harrington 23 Jan '18

23 Jan '18

When drafting the vote for this coming hackfest, a couple things occurred to me regarding making our events more welcoming and inviting. First, while I like the fairness of our reimbursement schedule for longer term contributors, I wonder if it might be a bit exclusionary for situations where we do want to encourage newer developers to get involved and join in. It makes me wonder if we should revisit the tiers and make sure the numbers aren't hindering attendance at these events? Second, the tiers quantify based on patchcount, but many of our developers are making numerous important contributions that can't be measured in git commits. Where we do use a tiered system, it would be beneficial if we could find ways to structure it to recognize that work. Lastly, I worry a bit that not all types of people may feel comfortable attending a hackfest - language, gender, age, work duties, family requirements, etc. can affect someone's choice to attend. We invest a fair amount of the project's money into these hackfests, but if they are only effectively open to a subset of our membership it makes me wonder if we need to broaden our thinking for other kinds of gathering activities that might suit some of these other participants. Anyway, nothing here to do regarding the upcoming hackfest, time's too short. But what do you guys think of these ponderings in relation to making our future activities more inclusive of a wider variety of people? Bryce

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[REFERENDUM] LGM Attendance 2018
by Bryce Harrington 19 Jan '18

19 Jan '18

A second mini-hackfest is tentatively planned be held in conjunction with the LGM meeting in Seville, Spain April 26th through April 30th. Google may be providing some support for travel to LGM. They are interested in adding Variable Font support to Inkscape. Details are available on the Inkscape wiki at: Seville: http://wiki.inkscape.org/wiki/index.php/Hackfest2018_LGM Proposal: [ ] a. Cover travel and hotel expenses for Inkscape developers to participate in LGM 2018, at half our typical hackfest rates. [ ] b. The budgeted funds for LGM should be used some other way: ________________________________________________________ Allocation for attending hackfest: * Up to $1000 each for Inkscape developers who have contributed for 3+ years and > 200 commits. * Up to $750 each for Inkscape developers who have contributed for 2+ years and > 100 commits. * Up to $500 each for Inkscape developers who have contributed for 1+ year and > 50 commits. * Up to $250 each for any Inkscape contributor listed in AUTHORS file with at least 10 commits by Jan 1, 2018. Votes: ------ | Board Member | 1. | | -------------------- |:--:| | Bryce Harrington | a. | | Josh Andler | | | Tavmjong Bah | | | Ted Gould | | | Martin Owens | | | Marc Jeanmougin | | | Chris Rogers | | Resolution: ----------- Background: ----------- LGM is an important meeting for the Libre graphics movement. While we won't be having a separate, distinct hackfest apart from it, as we've done in the past, this event serves as a good opportunity for European Inkscapers to meet up and to interact with the larger FOSS graphics community. Sample Announcement from Past LGM: ---------------------------------- Interested in meeting up with fellow Inkscapers? Thanks to generous donations to the project, we are able to provide funds to reimburse five developers up to $500 each for attendance at the Libre Graphics Meeting in Leipzig in April. Anyone in the AUTHORS file as of Feb 19th, 2014 is eligible to apply. To register, please email Tavmjong Bah, our coordinator for the event, by March 6th to get on the list. He'll let you know what position you are in the list. Then, register for the conference, enjoy your time, and save your receipts. Afterwards email copies of the receipts to Tav, who will forward them along to SFC for reimbursement. A maximum of $500 US each will be reimbursed to five attendees for travel, hotel room, and food. Note that the LGM meeting may also give partial reimbursements, so if your total costs exceed $500 they may be able to help. In addition, the board is sponsoring Tavmjong Bah to attend both LGM as a speaker and as our event coordinator, and the co-located SVG Working Group Meeting. Tav will be representing Inkscape's interests at the SVG meeting, and will be working with them on features including mesh gradients, hatched fills, and auto-flowed text. Thank you to everyone who has contributed to Inkscape in the past. Your funding has made these sponsorships possible. We've found these face-to-face meetings invaluable both for sharing ideas and as general inspiration for advancement of the project. Previous Years' Website Blurb: Thanks to generous donations from users, the Inkscape Project is pleased to pay for five developers to attend the Libre Graphics Meeting, to be held in Leipzig in April. Tavmjong Bah will be presenting and is sponsored to go as Inkscape's event coordinator; please contact him if you are an Inkscape developer and would like added to the sponsorship list. Tav will also be sponsored to attend the co-located SVG Working Group Meeting. Tav will be representing Inkscape's interests at the SVG meeting, and will be working with them on features including mesh gradients, hatched fills, and auto-flowed text.

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[REFERENDUM] Boston Hackfest 2018
by Bryce Harrington 19 Jan '18

19 Jan '18

We'll be having our 2018 Hackfest in Boston in March. Funding for this will follow the same model as last year's Paris hackfest. We do not have attendance estimates yet, but expect it to be similar to past events and so are budgeting for 9 attendees. Your vote is needed on the planned Inkscape Hackfest. Proposals: ---------- 1. Sponsor a hackfest in Boston for March, 2018: Total cost estimate for 9 people is roughly $13k. - [ ] a. Yes, sponsor hackfest in Boston as proposed. - [ ] b. Approve holding a hackfest, but recommend making the following alterations: ___________________________________________________ - [ ] c. Do not approve holding a hackfest 2. Reimburse using a ranked system similar to 2015/2016/2017 hackfests. - [ ] a. Use ranked reimbursement. Long term, high commit developers are sponsored up to a higher maximum than new developers. - [ ] b. Use open ended. We'll fully cover all valid expenses incurred by the sponsorees. - [ ] c. Other: ___________________________________________________ - [ ] d. Do not reimburse for Paris hackfest expenses 3. The Inkscape Board sponsors a dinner event, to be funded from the Inkscape general fund (instead of the hackfest fund), for Hackfest attendees and guests. - [ ] a. Yes. Allocate $600 from Inkscape's general fund for a dinner. - [ ] b. Yes, but handle funding the dinner in a different way: ____________________________________________________ - [ ] c. No, do not fund a sponsored dinner for the hackfest. Allocation for attending hackfest: * Up to $2000 each for Inkscape developers who have contributed for 3+ years and > 200 commits. * Up to $1500 each for Inkscape developers who have contributed for 2+ years and > 100 commits. * Up to $1000 each for Inkscape developers who have contributed for 1+ year and > 50 commits. * Up to $500 each for any Inkscape contributor listed in AUTHORS file with at least 10 commits by Jan 1, 2018. Votes: ------ | Board Member | 1. | 2. | 3. | | -------------------- |:--:|:--:|:--:| | Bryce Harrington | a. | a. | a. | | Josh Andler | | | | | Tavmjong Bah | | | | | Ted Gould | | | | | Martin Owens | | | | | Marc Jeanmougin | | | | | Chris Rogers | | | | Resolution: ----------- Background: ----------- Past hackfests have provided excellent opportunities for Inkscape developers to meet in person, discuss the project and coordinate work on bug-fixing, feature planning, and other efforts. In the past we've sometimes sought to align the location and time of the event with conferences or groups in the area to permit external collaborations as well. Boston is home to Red Hat and a number of other important companies in the FOSS community, and we hope to extend invitations. Martin Owens has volunteered as event coordinator for the hackfest event (with help from Tav).

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Trademark Issue
by Martin Owens 12 Jan '18

12 Jan '18

Wacom has a service called 'Inkspace' http://www.wacom.com/en-us/products/apps-services/inkspace I'm getting support requests from people who think Inkscape is Inkspace. I can sanitise the website and make sure there's no cross terms. But to be honest, this looks like a case for the lawyers, since it's so close to Inkscape's trademark that it's going to cause confusion. Thoughts? Best Regards, Martin Owens

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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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