- Inkscape Board of Directors

Inkscape Board Meeting Sep 2nd
by Bryce Harrington 29 Aug '16

29 Aug '16

Hi Inkscapers, For September's board meeting, I'd like to plan on getting together this Friday, September 2nd, at the usual time, noon Pacific, in #inkscape-devel. http://wiki.inkscape.org/wiki/index.php/Board_Meetings Last meeting we discussed hackfest locations. My wife's been helping me scope out some awesome places in the area, and we have a good option to present. We'd also talked about sending a few folks to a GNOME event this fall; this meeting will be the last opportunity to get that underway if we want to do it. Another important agenda item is to follow up on the Inkscape Forum transition, and discuss follow up tasks. I've also started working on setting up an Inkscape account on Spreadshirt and put some Q's in to SFC regarding bank info and taxes, but am hoping that will be ready for usage soonish. So I'd like to chat with Mc and anyone else that would like to participate in getting that off the ground. Bryce

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Board meeting Aug 5th
by Bryce Harrington 05 Aug '16

05 Aug '16

Let's get together this Friday, August 5th, for a board meeting in #inkscape-devel at noon Pacific time. http://wiki.inkscape.org/wiki/index.php/Board_Meetings Bryce

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Re: [Inkscape-board] [Inkscape-devel] PayPal-Me
by Martin Owens 29 Jul '16

29 Jul '16

This is a good idea. The person who needs to set up these accounts though, is Software Freedom Conservancy, Inc. since the money will need to make its way to their accounts under our name. I'm adding the inkscape board. We can add this to the next meeting agenda, or we could go directly to bradly and ask him to do more work ;-) Martin, On Fri, 2016-07-29 at 16:11 +0200, Jabier Arraiza wrote: > Hi to all. > What about create a paypal.me page for inkscape? > > http://paypal.me > > Thanks Rita for the idea. > > Cheers, Jabier. > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------- > ----------- > _______________________________________________ > Inkscape-devel mailing list > Inkscape-devel(a)lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/inkscape-devel

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Board meeting July 8th
by Bryce Harrington 07 Jul '16

07 Jul '16

Hope everyone's summer is going well. I'd like to call the next board meeting for this Friday, July 8th. As usual, it will be held in #inkscape-devel at noon Pacific time. http://wiki.inkscape.org/wiki/index.php/Board_Meetings We'll continue discussions about the forum. As well, we had a number of action items at May's meeting that we didn't cover in June's meeting, that I hope we can tackle at this meeting too. Thanks, Bryce

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Board meeting June 3rd
by Bryce Harrington 02 Jul '16

02 Jul '16

Reminder that our June board meeting will be this Friday in #inkscape-devel at noon Pacific time. http://wiki.inkscape.org/wiki/index.php/Board_Meetings Agenda is above. There were a lot of action items out of the May meeting, so please doublecheck on your tasks and come ready to report. There will be an informal 0.92 release meeting after the board meeting (1pm US pacific time). Potential topics include a run through of release critical bugs, the about screen contest, translation work, platform packages of the release candidate, etc. Thanks, Bryce On Sun, May 08, 2016 at 01:22:35PM -0700, Bryce Harrington wrote: > On Tue, May 03, 2016 at 12:34:18PM -0700, Bryce Harrington wrote: > > May's meeting is coming up. It'll be in #inkscape-devel at noon Pacific > > time (2000 UTC). > > > > http://wiki.inkscape.org/wiki/index.php/Board_Meetings > > > > This will be a good opportunity to debrief from the hackfest and > > identify followup actions that the board should work on in coming > > months. > > > > Bryce > > Thanks everyone for attending, that ended up being an impressively > productive meeting. I've gone through the meeting log and pulled out > action items: > > http://wiki.inkscape.org/wiki/index.php/Board_Meetings > > I've penciled in Friday, June 3rd as our next meeting, and jotted in an > agenda to followup on a number of the items we touched on this week. > > Bryce > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Find and fix application performance issues faster with Applications Manager > Applications Manager provides deep performance insights into multiple tiers of > your business applications. It resolves application problems quickly and > reduces your MTTR. Get your free trial! > https://ad.doubleclick.net/ddm/clk/302982198;130105516;z > _______________________________________________ > Inkscape-board mailing list > Inkscape-board(a)lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/inkscape-board

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License Page
by Martin Owens 02 Jun '16

02 Jun '16

Because of a number of questions about file licenses, I've constructed this license page for the website: https://inkscape.org/en/about/license/ The text at the top is what's important, the rest is just the gplv2. Also, I noticed that our trunk repository has the LGPLv2 text but not the GPLv2 text, is this a mistake? Martin,

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[REFERENDUM] SVG Working Group Meetings for 2016
by Bryce Harrington 19 May '16

19 May '16

[Resending to the correct list this time... sheesh.] ----- Forwarded message from Bryce Harrington <bryce@...2...> ----- Date: Sun, 15 May 2016 23:14:31 -0700 From: Bryce Harrington <bryce@...2...> To: inkscape-devel@...5... Subject: [Inkscape-devel] [REFERENDUM] SVG Working Group Meetings for 2016 A majority vote of the current board members is required for the following matter. Proposal: Authorize SVG WG travel by Tav up to the amount in the SVG WG fund. "Inkscape's Project Leadership committee authorizes Conservancy to pay any invoice from Tav between 2016-03-01 and 2017-02-28 for SVG Working Group meetings, up to the amount presently available in Inkscape's SVG WG Fund, $2384.91. Tav must of course also comply with Conservancy's travel policy." [ ] a. Yes, authorize SVG WG expenses up to amount in fund [ ] b. No, do not authorize these expenses Votes: Resolved: Background: In the past we've had to vote on each of Tav's meeting attendances on a case by case basis. But now that we have set aside a fund specifically for these meetings, I think we should just approve any and all travel he may do, up to the total in that fund. This will eliminate uncertainty for him in making his travel plans, and simplify our voting. I enquired with Bradley Kuhn about how we can do this, and this is what he replied: <quote> Bryce Harrington wrote: > Tav attends these SVG WG meetings pretty routinely now, and I don't > recall us ever not approving his attendance. Now that we have a > dedicated fund set up for this, that isn't going to be used for > anything *but* funding Tav's SVG WG trips, would it be permissible to > give him approval to arrange his attendance at these meetings at his > own discretion, so long as the expenses are within the limit of what's > in the funding pool, without requiring board votes on each individual > meeting? I'd suggest you approve an annual maximum budget that Tav can send invoices for regarding SVG meetings, and instruct Conservancy to pay them provided Tav's within the Conservancy travel policy. That way, you only have to think about it once per year, or when he goes over budget. Something like: "Inkscape's Project Leadership committee authorizes Conservancy to pay any invoice from Tav between now and 2017-01-01 for SVG Working Group meetings, up to a maximum 2016 Travel Budget for Tav's SVG Working Group meetings of $Nk. Tav must of course also comply with Conservancy's travel policy." -- bkuhn <endquote> I aligned the dates to fiscal year 2016 since we decided to shift our budget to those dates. Below is a tally of the SVG WG fund balance as of what's in SFC's ledger system for us: ---- FY 2015 ---- Initial fund $ 0 + $2250.00 Budgeted from Inkscape General Fund 2015 $ 2250 - $ 346.82 SVG WG Sweden $ 1903.18 - $ 12.89 " " $ 1890.29 - $ 12.95 " " $ 1877.34 - $ 37.24 " " $ 1840.10 - $ 15.19 " " $ 1824.91 - $ 49.53 " " $ 1775.38 - $ 394.00 " " $ 1381.38 - $ 31.38 " " $ 1350.00 + $2250.00 Retroactive from FY 2016 Ink. Gen. Fund $ 3600.00 - $ 12.99 SVG WG Sydney Feb 3-5 $ 3587.01 - $ 12.44 " " $ 3574.57 - $1586.80 " " $ 1987.77 - $ 15.55 " " $ 1972.22 - $ 11.67 " " $ 1960.55 - $ 244.29 " " $ 1716.26 - $ 68.89 " " $ 1647.37 ---- FY 2016 ---- + $ 736.54 Donation income Dec 2015 - May 2016 $ 2383.91 This will cover Tav's recent London SVG editor's meeting (which he reports ran to about $500), an editor's meeting in Amsterdam, and other travel he'll undertake through the remainder of FY 2016. If Tav needs to spend in excess of this sum, and there have been additional donation income that covers the overage, at that point we'll need to re-vote to increase the budget limit. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Mobile security can be enabling, not merely restricting. Employees who bring their own devices (BYOD) to work are irked by the imposition of MDM restrictions. Mobile Device Manager Plus allows you to control only the apps on BYO-devices by containerizing them, leaving personal data untouched! https://ad.doubleclick.net/ddm/clk/304595813;131938128;j _______________________________________________ Inkscape-devel mailing list Inkscape-devel(a)lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/inkscape-devel ----- End forwarded message -----

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Re: [Inkscape-board] [REFERENDUM] SVG Working Group Meetings for 2016
by Jon A. Cruz 16 May '16

16 May '16

I vote a Sent from my mobile device. -------- Original message -------- From: Bryce Harrington <bryce@...2...> Date: 5/16/2016 09:21 (GMT-08:00) To: inkscape-board@...5... Subject: [Inkscape-board] [REFERENDUM] SVG Working Group Meetings for 2016 [Resending to the correct list this time... sheesh.] ----- Forwarded message from Bryce Harrington <bryce@...2...> ----- Date: Sun, 15 May 2016 23:14:31 -0700 From: Bryce Harrington <bryce@...2...> To: inkscape-devel@...5... Subject: [Inkscape-devel] [REFERENDUM] SVG Working Group Meetings for 2016 A majority vote of the current board members is required for the following matter. Proposal: Authorize SVG WG travel by Tav up to the amount in the SVG WG fund. "Inkscape's Project Leadership committee authorizes Conservancy to pay any invoice from Tav between 2016-03-01 and 2017-02-28 for SVG Working Group meetings, up to the amount presently available in Inkscape's SVG WG Fund, $2384.91. Tav must of course also comply with Conservancy's travel policy." [ ] a. Yes, authorize SVG WG expenses up to amount in fund [ ] b. No, do not authorize these expenses Votes: Resolved: Background: In the past we've had to vote on each of Tav's meeting attendances on a case by case basis. But now that we have set aside a fund specifically for these meetings, I think we should just approve any and all travel he may do, up to the total in that fund. This will eliminate uncertainty for him in making his travel plans, and simplify our voting. I enquired with Bradley Kuhn about how we can do this, and this is what he replied: <quote> Bryce Harrington wrote: > Tav attends these SVG WG meetings pretty routinely now, and I don't > recall us ever not approving his attendance. Now that we have a > dedicated fund set up for this, that isn't going to be used for > anything *but* funding Tav's SVG WG trips, would it be permissible to > give him approval to arrange his attendance at these meetings at his > own discretion, so long as the expenses are within the limit of what's > in the funding pool, without requiring board votes on each individual > meeting? I'd suggest you approve an annual maximum budget that Tav can send invoices for regarding SVG meetings, and instruct Conservancy to pay them provided Tav's within the Conservancy travel policy. That way, you only have to think about it once per year, or when he goes over budget. Something like: "Inkscape's Project Leadership committee authorizes Conservancy to pay any invoice from Tav between now and 2017-01-01 for SVG Working Group meetings, up to a maximum 2016 Travel Budget for Tav's SVG Working Group meetings of $Nk. Tav must of course also comply with Conservancy's travel policy." -- bkuhn <endquote> I aligned the dates to fiscal year 2016 since we decided to shift our budget to those dates. Below is a tally of the SVG WG fund balance as of what's in SFC's ledger system for us: ---- FY 2015 ---- Initial fund $ 0 + $2250.00 Budgeted from Inkscape General Fund 2015 $ 2250 - $ 346.82 SVG WG Sweden $ 1903.18 - $ 12.89 " " $ 1890.29 - $ 12.95 " " $ 1877.34 - $ 37.24 " " $ 1840.10 - $ 15.19 " " $ 1824.91 - $ 49.53 " " $ 1775.38 - $ 394.00 " " $ 1381.38 - $ 31.38 " " $ 1350.00 + $2250.00 Retroactive from FY 2016 Ink. Gen. Fund $ 3600.00 - $ 12.99 SVG WG Sydney Feb 3-5 $ 3587.01 - $ 12.44 " " $ 3574.57 - $1586.80 " " $ 1987.77 - $ 15.55 " " $ 1972.22 - $ 11.67 " " $ 1960.55 - $ 244.29 " " $ 1716.26 - $ 68.89 " " $ 1647.37 ---- FY 2016 ---- + $ 736.54 Donation income Dec 2015 - May 2016 $ 2383.91 This will cover Tav's recent London SVG editor's meeting (which he reports ran to about $500), an editor's meeting in Amsterdam, and other travel he'll undertake through the remainder of FY 2016. If Tav needs to spend in excess of this sum, and there have been additional donation income that covers the overage, at that point we'll need to re-vote to increase the budget limit. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Mobile security can be enabling, not merely restricting. Employees who bring their own devices (BYOD) to work are irked by the imposition of MDM restrictions. Mobile Device Manager Plus allows you to control only the apps on BYO-devices by containerizing them, leaving personal data untouched! https://ad.doubleclick.net/ddm/clk/304595813;131938128;j _______________________________________________ Inkscape-devel mailing list Inkscape-devel(a)lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/inkscape-devel ----- End forwarded message ----- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Mobile security can be enabling, not merely restricting. Employees who bring their own devices (BYOD) to work are irked by the imposition of MDM restrictions. Mobile Device Manager Plus allows you to control only the apps on BYO-devices by containerizing them, leaving personal data untouched! https://ad.doubleclick.net/ddm/clk/304595813;131938128;j _______________________________________________ Inkscape-board mailing list Inkscape-board(a)lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/inkscape-board

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Board Meeting @ Friday May 6th, 2016
by Bryce Harrington 08 May '16

08 May '16

May's meeting is coming up. It'll be in #inkscape-devel at noon Pacific time (2000 UTC). http://wiki.inkscape.org/wiki/index.php/Board_Meetings This will be a good opportunity to debrief from the hackfest and identify followup actions that the board should work on in coming months. Bryce

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regarding the forum issue
by Jill Davis 04 May '16

04 May '16

Hi Friends, Sorry, but I don't know how to reply to a thread when I'm not subscribed to the list. This is in regard to the issue with InkscapeForum.com. I'm the longest time active member there, and moderated for several years. This current situation has been the status quo for several years. If I had any idea the board or development community would take any interest, I would have contacted you long ago! Part of the reason I started Inkscape Community, was because I thought IF could go under any day. And I wanted to make sure there would be a forum, if that happened. Regarding any potential new "official" forum, I am ready and willing to moderate and/or admin. I can't handle network-level issues, or database issues. Although I'm willing to learn, if anyone is willing to teach. Also, I wanted to comment about the "official Inkscape forum" logo. When IF first opened, it was my understanding that the development community was not interested, and some were even opposed (based on a discussion with the owner/admin). It was for that reason, that the logo for that forum was "the unofficial Inkscape forum". It was only changed to "official" later, for reasons that I never completely understood. As fas as I understand, it was because a few members asked for it. If there was any designation, I'm not aware of it. That's all I have to contribute :-) All best, brynn

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