- Inkscape Board of Directors

Proposal to for donation to SFC
by Tavmjong Bah 12 Jan '16

12 Jan '16

Hi, As you all know, SFC is launching a big fundraiser on Monday. As we heavily rely on SFC I think we should consider making a donation to show our support. They are currently 81 annual supporters short of their minimum goal. Perhaps we could donate the equivalent of 5 annual subscription (5 x $120 = $600)? Donations before the end of January will be matched. Tav

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Board Meeting @ Friday Jan 8, 2016
by Bryce Harrington 11 Jan '16

11 Jan '16

Reminder that the meeting is tomorrow at Noon Pacific time. For agenda and past meeting logs please see: http://wiki.inkscape.org/wiki/index.php/Board_Meetings Bryce

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Re: [Inkscape-board] [REFERENDUM] Budget for 2016
by Jon A. Cruz 03 Jan '16

03 Jan '16

I vote [a] Sent from my mobile device. -------- Original message -------- From: Bryce Harrington <bryce@...2...> Date: 1/1/2016 18:17 (GMT-08:00) To: inkscape-board(a)lists.sourceforge.net Subject: [Inkscape-board] [REFERENDUM] Budget for 2016 A majority vote of the current board members is required for approving this budget. Proposal: 1. Adoption of the Rev1 budget in the attached spreadsheet for use as guidance in 2016 finances. 2. Align the 2016 budget to the Software Freedom Conservancy's fiscal year, which runs 3/1/2016 to 2/28/2017. We will stretch the 2015 budget to cover expenses through 2/29/2016. 3. Formalize the division of Inkscape's funds into distinct "pools", each carrying balances year to year, and registered in Paypal to allow donors to directly target the pool they wish to fund, as we did in 2015 for hackfest:2015 donations. We will still have a General Fund for general expenses and untargeted donations. 4. Generalize last year's Hackfest:2015 pool to cover future Hackfests. The money in this pool will be used exclusively for Hackfest sponsorship and related organizational costs. Assume an increase of 150% in the budgeted amounts over last year, to make provision for increased attendance. Since the hackfest-targeted fundraising has proven successful, no additional money is being allocated from the General Fund; we'll rely on the balance from last year and ongoing fundraising to cover these expenses. 5. Establish a new SVG Working Group funding pool. Seed this pool with $2250 from the General Fund, usable retroactively (i.e. the pool can be used to cover the Feb 3-6 meeting in Sydney, Australia.) 6. Allocate $250 each to the three existing funded project proposals, and to three new funded projects (to be determined in a subsequent board vote). Each funded project will have its own pool, in order to track per-project donations. 7. Other budgeted expenses follow the 2015 budget. An OSUOSL grant, Developer Education (details tbd), and sponsorship for LGM and SCALE are budgeted with the same amounts as 2015. The Contingency line item from 2015 is eliminated since we didn't have a use for it, and its $500 is lumped into Other Events. 8. Board chairman will document the budget on the Inkscape website, and follow up with subsequent votes on individual expenses as appropriate or as they come up. [ ] a. Yes, adopt budget as described in "Rev #1" (below) [ ] b. Revise budget with the following changes recommended: _____________________________________________________ _____________________________________________________ [ ] c. Do not establish a budget for 2016 Background: At the end of 2015 we have a balance of $38,000, with $11,613.10 of that allocated to the Hackfest "pool", and $750 allocated to three funded project efforts. As detailed above, the 2016 budget is an evolution from 2015. The most notable change is the formalization of funding pools. This structural change to the budget is partly to facilitate the funded project system currently under development, but also helps establish the philosophy of empowering our donors in helping guide Inkscape's future through their contribution choices. The attached spreadsheet shows two tables. First is a listing of expenses including allocations of money from the General Fund to other pools (with expense amounts indicated in blue), and estimates for the expenses. The second table summarizes the expenses, expected donation income, and allocations between pools (with income amounts indicated in blue). Numbers in italic indicate the amounts are just guesses, and will be revised when actual amounts become known. The budget is more complex this year, I hope the spreadsheet helps make it comprehensible and apologize if it doesn't. (Advice for helping make it clearer would be appreciated.) Votes: Resolution: ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ Inkscape-board mailing list Inkscape-board(a)lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/inkscape-board

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2015 Budget actuals
by Bryce Harrington 13 Dec '15

13 Dec '15

Donna and I have gone through the ledger records to add an Actuals column for the 2015 budget: https://inkscape.org/en/about/governance/budget/ Note that FY2015 isn't over yet, so there could well be more expenses to come. Also I'm not certain we've captured everything 100% perfectly so if anything looks weird lemme know. For 2016, I think we could be more aggressive in our spending plans. It feels to me that we could afford to be more liberal in our conference attendance sponsorships. It would be great to also see more activities like last year's book program; main limiting factor has just been finding folks to do the coordination legwork, so anyone interested in organizing something like that please send in a proposal. Bryce

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SVG Working Group travel support
by Tavmjong Bah 09 Dec '15

09 Dec '15

Hi, The SVG Working Group will be holding a face-to-face meeting in Sydney at the beginning of February. I know we've discussed funding SVG Working Group travel through dedicated fund raising but as that system is not yet functional (and as we've been quite successful in raising funds the past two years) I would like to see how board members feel about my asking for funding to travel to this meeting. The SVG 2 specification is firming up. The one big section that still needs work is the text chapter. The major difficulty here is the need to interface to all the relevant CSS text specifications, some of which are not very far advanced. I've got a ton of issues that need addressing. At the Sydney meeting there will be a one day joint meeting with the CSS working group. Being able to sit down with the CSS people is the best way of making progress. I've been doing most of the work for the text section. I've had some help from another group member but he's in the process of ramping down his participation in the working group. The Sydney meeting is likely the last meeting he'll attend. I estimate the cost for attending the Sydney meeting to be about the same as last year: a bit under $2500 (I was reimbursed $2250 last year). Last year's Sydney meeting was very successful from our perspective. One can read my report at: http://tavmjong.free.fr/blog/?m=201502 This year's meeting will be more on dotting the 'i's and crossing the 't's as we try to get the spec out the door. BTW, as I work on the spec, I've also been working on Inkscape's text rendering. I've recently fixed some issues with vertical text as well as issues with multi-line text. I've also implemented the new 'text- orientation' attribute and there is a rendering only implementation of SVG 2.0 wrapped text. Tav

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December meeting log
by Bryce Harrington 09 Dec '15

09 Dec '15

On Dec 4th, 2015 we met to discuss the following items: Budget 2016 Hackfest 2016: Leeds Funded development Licensing Action items: √ Post meeting minutes [bryce] √ New agenda for next month [bryce] * Ensure KK and Alex discuss sponsor recognition [Tav] * Invite Alex to make a proposal for Leeds [bryce] * Get Project Suggestions list ready for GSoC [bryce] * Draft budget [bryce] * Do a vote for another OSUOSL donation [bryce] Some other topics we wanted to discuss (but lacked the right people): Sponsorship levels Code of Conduct & Privacy Policy GSoC 2016 C++11 Licensing issues (GPL v2+) For details of our meeting please see: https://inkscape.org/en/gallery/item/7056/ Our next meeting will be held January 8th, 2016. Bryce From: inkscape-board-request(a)lists.sourceforge.net Subject: confirm 11339c53f676616da863412bd91937fba974b335 If you reply to this message, keeping the Subject: header intact, Mailman will discard the held message. Do this if the message is spam. If you reply to this message and include an Approved: header with the list password in it, the message will be approved for posting to the list. The Approved: header can also appear in the first line of the body of the reply.

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Next Inkscape board meeting.
by Tavmjong Bah 02 Dec '15

02 Dec '15

Hi all, The next Inkscape board meeting is schedule for December 4th at 20:00 UTC/Noon PST/21:00 CEST: http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?month=12&day=4&yea r=2015&hour=20&min=00&sec=0&p1=0 All member of the Inkscape community are welcome to participate. We meet on the #inkscape-devel IRC channel on Freenode. For more details see: http://wiki.inkscape.org/wiki/index.php/Board_Meetings Tav

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Relicensing to GPL v2+
by Krzysztof Kosiński 29 Nov '15

29 Nov '15

Hello board, Section 9 of GNU GPL says: The Free Software Foundation may publish revised and/or new versions of the General Public License from time to time. Such new versions will be similar in spirit to the present version, but may differ in detail to address new problems or concerns. Each version is given a distinguishing version number. If the Program specifies a version number of this License which applies to it and "any later version", you have the option of following the terms and conditions either of that version or of any later version published by the Free Software Foundation. If the Program does not specify a version number of this License, you may choose any version ever published by the Free Software Foundation. Almost all of our files say "released under GNU GPL" without specifying the version; thus they are effectively under GPL v1+. The only offenders I've identified are: src/xml/quote.cpp src/main-cmdlineact.h src/main-cmdlineact.cpp src/live_effects/lpe-jointype.h src/live_effects/lpe-jointype.cpp which are GPL v2 only. If we rewrote those files or contacted the authors to release under GPL v2+, we could change the advertised license from GPL v2 to GPL v2+. What do you think? Best regards, Krzysztof

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License issue with Scour
by Tavmjong Bah 26 Nov '15

26 Nov '15

Hi, Scour is now licensed solely under the Apache 2.0 license. This license in principle is not compatible with GPLv2.[1] Eduard Brown would like to merge an updated version of Scour into Inkscape trunk. He claims that as we are only calling Scour as an external program (script) we do not need to worry about the license incompatibility. Is this true? Tav [1] http://www.apache.org/licenses/GPL-compatibility.html [2] https://code.launchpad.net/~eduard-braun2/inkscape/scour/+merge/278 387

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[cpglamming@...120...: Re: Thanks for your donation of $50.00 on 2015-11-10 to Conservancy (directed for Inkscape)]
by Bryce Harrington 25 Nov '15

25 Nov '15

I usually don't see these thank yous from donors, but this one popped in my box this morning, thought I'd forward it along. Bryce ----- Forwarded message from Chris Lamming <cpglamming@...120...> ----- Date: Tue, 24 Nov 2015 09:31:06 +0000 From: Chris Lamming <cpglamming@...120...> To: Software Freedom Conservancy <inkscape@...41...> Subject: Re: Thanks for your donation of $50.00 on 2015-11-10 to Conservancy (directed for Inkscape) You are very welcome Bradley. As I sit here at work, just about to use the software yet again for another graphic, I feel that donating some money after years of benefiting from Inkscape, was absolutely the right thing to do. I hope very much that Inkscape continues to grow and improve - it is wonderful software. best wishes, Chris On Tue, Nov 24, 2015 at 3:06 AM, Software Freedom Conservancy < inkscape@...41...> wrote: > Thank you for your donation to the Software Freedom Conservancy on > 2015-11-10 > in the amount of $50.00. The Software Freedom Conservancy is a USA > 501(c)(3) charity incorporated in the state of New York, and our federal > tax-exempt identification number is 41-2203632. > > The donation will be directed toward Inkscape, with 10% going to > Conservancy's general fund, per wishes of the Inkscape project. > > > We will use the money to continue our work to support and promote software > freedom. Your donation is very meaningful to us and we really appreciate > it. > > Would you like your donation to do even more? If you work for a company > based in the USA, your company may have a donation matching program for > 501(c)(3) charities. Please contact your HR, Personnel, or charitable > giving department and ask! Many programs match the donation > dollar-for-dollar! If you need assistance in talking with your company > about this, please don't hesitate to ask for Conservancy's help! > > Sincerely, > Bradley M. Kuhn > President, Software Freedom Conservancy > ----- End forwarded message -----

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