- Inkscape Board of Directors

inkscapeforum.com
by Maren Hachmann 02 May '16

02 May '16

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Dear Board, I would like to ask for the board's help about the following issue: The main Inkscape forum, at http://www.inkscapeforum.com, is maintained by a single admin (microugly, see whois entry of the site for more details), who is the only one with access to server, database and user permissions. The admin seems to be 'alive', indicated by private messages to microugly being read, and the 'Last active' display in the user's profil e (http://www.inkscapeforum.com/memberlist.php?mode=viewprofile&u=2). Unfortunately, for a long time, nobody has been able to successfully make contact with microugly (the last time I got a response was in October last year). Martin Owens and I tried to contact microugly via email and launchpad account, and other forum members report sending private forum messages repeatedly. There is currently only a single moderator taking care of spam (Lazur), and the spamming is getting more. The moderator has already declared that he will (understandably) not go on doing this forever, if the admin does not answer his requests for more spam protection and allowing more people to help soon. There are other users who would volunteer to help, but aside from the forum owner, there's nobody who could give them the required permissions (or do updates to the site etc.). As the forum is labelled "The official Inkscape 'users' forum", and is a very valuable resource for users, I think this is important for the Inkscape project. It would be a pity for the domain name and the collected info being drowned in spam when the only active moderator gives up. Can you help with this issue? Additional info: - ---------------- An alternative forum is maintained by Brynn, at http://inkscapecommunity.com/. It's currently a lot less active than inkscapeforum.com and thus, has a smaller information base. It's also quite a bit slower. Its maintainer, however, is very responsive, and it has a collection of well-curated information. The Inkscape project itself does not have a forum, but there have been discussions about this on the devel mailing list (but no volunteers to add one to the website). The current forum community discussion can be found here: http://www.inkscapeforum.com/viewtopic.php?f=30&t=20489 Kind regards, Maren -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.22 (GNU/Linux) iQIcBAEBAgAGBQJXJ2uSAAoJELavtZto4hQPhZAQAL9+KoLQVBXklZb1crgUryuH d310ACHwJfyzAlnpycN0DYGvSErKZBANZI4b1QlniqFE/rtnNaS/KcsOPnaUXdiZ Bcqfjn5I5duhR5aPKPWeUilCfIVydwN581JmmhWShrK1DoAfY62IcIwTu90Ujet9 Vh80fn5YOZAhbXEYgjaLKHPEIr99oD0v6WMg4+9Wn8j9Cibjo/K/ohfg+1KN7JhY JZIR6BGbq/hdNUsIASAnbG9JQYAXrh4AkuZni8lR3cQkIfwCiQTfra231vNZiuhu HRxMYHSk9gV5o77arrYijVdaKBAMgLIZCa8hzOLeXTsY8m7w+z5YoKM3N4t2vydm sNLK7txo20f+5sZur6zdEMA1fIKW7zJRPzZHfpYPYNZfMLJKnlv5m98ALW30X9Eq tY2tqvD/pynBxPpyboPcS3H3Dc+KUru6LV3N8MlNKm66XNYkM3z7Lv3Li1g0wzyQ F5DjUWsTbFklMjrDJhGCHfTqumTY7d+9wvRLKekz48jdPNE8dWbr8yxeFBKzUu1K DDhgawN2d/E6iuBfj6RiTAtdMeHoSQKNcl3M/IwSUJohW7l59GAYpSjJKXWKlvNJ gkrtjCWvXfK4y4mbWs2/fsC0qgKqdNttsG1RDR0OlpAp9OGL3LjoLkq4YJ4rOO27 J16Bm+kDIObWkEuzS50p =XpXZ -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

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Conservancy at OSCON
by Josh Andler 22 Apr '16

22 Apr '16

Hey all, So I'm sure you all saw Karen reach out to member orgs for help with manning their booth at OSCON. I would be willing to go help them do this, however, I would need some funding assistance from the project to make it happen. As they had said, we would be able to promote our project there and I feel like it might be good to reach out at a higher profile event like this. I would also seek outside donation to our project to help facilitate this but wanted to bring it up to see if other board members feel like this is a worthwhile cause. Thoughts? Cheers, Josh

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Re: [Inkscape-board] Conservancy at OSCON
by Jon A. Cruz 21 Apr '16

21 Apr '16

Sounds good to me. It would be a good opportunity. Sent from my mobile device. -------- Original message -------- From: Josh Andler <scislac@...23...> Date: 4/20/2016 20:05 (GMT-08:00) To: Inkscape Board <inkscape-board(a)lists.sourceforge.net> Subject: [Inkscape-board] Conservancy at OSCON Hey all, So I'm sure you all saw Karen reach out to member orgs for help with manning their booth at OSCON. I would be willing to go help them do this, however, I would need some funding assistance from the project to make it happen. As they had said, we would be able to promote our project there and I feel like it might be good to reach out at a higher profile event like this. I would also seek outside donation to our project to help facilitate this but wanted to bring it up to see if other board members feel like this is a worthwhile cause. Thoughts? Cheers, Josh

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Hackfest and LGM Impressions
by Tavmjong Bah 18 Apr '16

18 Apr '16

Hi, I just want to let the board know a bit about the hackfest and LGM. I assume that you've read the posts on Google+ and seen all the activity on IRC and in Bazaar. I think this year's hackfest was very successful. We got a lot of hacking done including fixing the GTK3 flashing bug and getting a lot closer to being able to switch to CMake. This hackfest had a different tone than last year's. We spent a lot more time coding and a lot less time discussing (only an hour or two). I think we did need to spend a lot of time last year on discussions as that was the first time we really sat down together. Our monthly board meetings have probably also reduced the need to spend a lot of time on discussions. I also think the LGM meeting was more useful this year than last year, not because the talks were better (perhaps they were a bit on average) but because we were able to both continue working on the code and spend a lot of time discussing with others issues that effect Inkscape. We had a good meeting with some designers who use Inkscape everyday and have started an Inkscape interface group which should come in handy as we rework the GTK3 dialogs. I met with people concerning better library support in HarfBuzz for accessing OpenType features which would allow a better interface to font features. Martin talked to the Gimp people about their plans for GTK3. Tom Lechner gave a nice talk demoing some interesting ways of interfacing with text which might be of interest to us. (He also gave a workshop on his very interesting engraving tool.) I would recommend we start thinking about another hackfest, either in the Fall or Spring. LGM will be in Rio de Janeiro in late April or early May. While I would love to visit Rio, I'm not sure we would get a large enough turnout for a hackfest there (hotel/food would be cheap but flights expensive). Martin has suggested a hackfest in Boston. That might be a good location as it's not so far from both Europe and the US west coast. LGM 2018 will most likely be in Europe, possibly Milan. Tav

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[REFERENDUM] Sponsor Olof Bjarnason for $500
by Bryce Harrington 11 Apr '16

11 Apr '16

A majority vote of the current board members is required for the following matter. Proposal: Reimburse Olof Bjarnason up to $500 for travel expenses to attend the 2016 Inkscape Hackfest. [ ] a. Yes, approve the reimbursement as stated above. [ ] b. No, do not approve reimbursement as stated above. Votes: Bryce Harrington Josh Andler Tavmjong Bah Jon A. Cruz Ted Gould Krzysztof Kosiński Martin Owens Resolved: Background: I (Tav) was asked by another Inkscape developer if it would be possible to invite Olof Bjarnason to the Inkscape hackfest with a sponsorship level of $500. Olaf has been participating on the Inkscape developer's mailing list since September 2015 and was active in helping Marc with adding additional node alignment options this year. He is not in the Inkscape authors file thus does not qualify for sponsorship under the current criteria (he has had a few patches accepted for lib2geom including one in 2015). As an enthusiastic relatively new Inkscape developer it seemed prudent to invite him to the hackfest. I queried the board members through the mailing list, and after getting positive responses by four other members I invited Olof. This resolution is to formalize the decision. 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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[scislac@...23...: Re: [REFERENDUM] Sponsor Olof Bjarnason for $500]
by Bryce Harrington 04 Apr '16

04 Apr '16

----- Forwarded message from Josh Andler <scislac@...23...> ----- Date: Mon, 4 Apr 2016 00:11:04 -0700 From: Josh Andler <scislac@...23...> To: Bryce Harrington <bryce@...2...> Subject: Re: [Inkscape-board] [REFERENDUM] Sponsor Olof Bjarnason for $500 I vote A. Cheers, Josh On Apr 3, 2016 11:53 PM, "Bryce Harrington" <bryce@...2...> wrote: > A majority vote of the current board members is required for the > following matter. > > Proposal: > > Reimburse Olof Bjarnason up to $500 for travel expenses to > attend the 2016 Inkscape Hackfest. > > [ ] a. Yes, approve the reimbursement as stated above. > [ ] b. No, do not approve reimbursement as stated above. > > Votes: > > Bryce Harrington > Josh Andler > Tavmjong Bah > Jon A. Cruz > Ted Gould > Krzysztof Kosiński > Martin Owens > > Resolved: > > > Background: > > I (Tav) was asked by another Inkscape developer if it would be possible > to invite Olof Bjarnason to the Inkscape hackfest with a sponsorship > level of $500. Olaf has been participating on the Inkscape developer's > mailing list since September 2015 and was active in helping Marc with > adding additional node alignment options this year. He is not in the > Inkscape authors file thus does not qualify for sponsorship under the > current criteria (he has had a few patches accepted for lib2geom > including one in 2015). As an enthusiastic relatively new Inkscape > developer it seemed prudent to invite him to the hackfest. > > I queried the board members through the mailing list, and after getting > positive responses by four other members I invited Olof. This resolution > is to formalize the decision. > > Note, this resolution does not increase the budget for the hackfest nor > does it open up invitations to any other person without board consent. > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > _______________________________________________ > Inkscape-board mailing list > Inkscape-board(a)lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/inkscape-board > ----- End forwarded message -----

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Board Meeting @ Friday Mar 4th, 2016
by Bryce Harrington 31 Mar '16

31 Mar '16

Let's plan on doing a short meeting tomorrow, March 4th. It'll be in #inkscape-devel at noon Pacific time (2000 UTC). http://wiki.inkscape.org/wiki/index.php/Board_Meetings Shortened Agenda is: * Hackfest 2016 * GSoC 2016 * Other business If time permits we'll tackle some of remaining topics from last meeting, but I'd like to keep the meeting to under an hour for folks, and to reserve as much as necessary for the hackfest and gsoc planning work. Bryce

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little-and-often micro-donations for Inkscape
by Justin Maxwell 30 Mar '16

30 Mar '16

Hi Bryce, Martin, Tavmjong, Krzysztof, Ted, Josh, & Jon... Apologies for the cold group email, but I'm hoping that this will be of interest, and maybe mutually beneficial. I'm Justin Maxwell, and I'm the founder of London startup tibit <http://www.tibit.com/>. We're also just a tiny wee early-stage company, taking on one of the great unsolved Internet problems of the past couple of decades - casual micropayments (and micro-donations!). This gives us a big 'chicken and egg' problem - to succeed we need sites and software that are 'tibbable', to bring in the users - and we need the users to bring in the recipients. We're different to Flattr etc, in that we address the cognitive barrier to making small 'in-the-moment' payments or donations online. We set out to achieve making a micro-donation as easy as dropping a couple of coins into a buskers hat, once a user has signed up. Specifically, we're hoping to tib button on your donations page, but the longer term plan is to give appreciative users of Inkscape (and similarly other appreciated software and content) a way to tangibly show that appreciation repeatedly, perhaps with a means to tib directly from the application help menu. Not so much as a request for donations as much as enabling users to easily show their support. We have pretty basic tib buttons on the Notepad++ donate page <https://notepad-plus-plus.org/donate/donate-action.html> and PyDev home page <http://www.pydev.org/>, and we see open-source software as a real beneficiary of our service once we get some traction. We use bitcoin at the back-end, but local currency for the donating user, paid with their existing Visa/MasterCard. You don't seem to currently have a bitcoin donation option, and there might be some minor issues with passing payment along to the Software Freedom Conservancy, but if we add to the reasons why Inkscape might get and publish a donations bitcoin address, so much the better. Here's how it works: Users buy a bundle of ten-or-more tokens (we call them tibs) of a value they set (say €0.25) and can then give/pay them out wherever they see a tib button (it also works as a simple link). Because the tibs have already been paid for, and the value pre-set, the user doesn't have to think twice, consider price fairness, or decide how much, for each tiny transaction. This makes deciding to show some support or reward something worthwhile a near-instinctive decision for a user. Once five tibs are collected for a particular bitcoin address, the combined value is paid out to your bitcoin address. We take 2p (~3¢) regardless of the value of the users tib. Because it's bitcoin, there isn't any signup required by the recipient, just set the bitcoin address as a parameter. Have a look at this codepen <http://codepen.io/tibit/pen/cabc38c7a517a2756b2a20922dc70e94> - it's set up to use a testnet bitcoin address, so operates in demo mode, but it'll give you an idea of how slick and easy the tibbing process is, and a feel for why this can work where so many other attempts to solve 'The Micropayments Problem' have not. (note that there is a Chrome bug relating to Codepen sand-boxed child windows that makes it work better in other browsers) or you can spend the two free tibs we give every new user via our home <http://tibit.com> or about us <https://tibit.com/about-us/> pages, or the other projects linked above. I’m not going to pretend anyone has made a lot of $£€ from one of our buttons yet! But as tib buttons pop-up in more and more places people will start to give, little and often, to the services, products, and content that they use and appreciate. We’d love to work with you on this. If you’d like to, you can just use the button from the Codepen after getting a bitcoin address, but if we can can help in anyway to integrate it further, please drop me an email. Meanwhile, as someone who uses every few days, I wouldn't be reaching out to you if *I* wouldn't be sending tibs your way... Best regards, --Justin

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Hackfest budget etc.
by Tavmjong Bah 26 Mar '16

26 Mar '16

Hi, So far we have allocate $9000 for travel expense for the hackfest, $3000 for travel to LGM, $1300 for the venue (includes lunches, snacks). $600 for Hackfest dinner. The actual amount for travel should be considerably less (for example, it include $2000 for Alex who is local). See: http://wiki.inkscape.org/wiki/index.php/Hackfest2016_Attendees I believe we allocated $7500 for the hackfest + $5000 for LGM + $600 for the dinner. At the end of 2015 we had $11,600 in the hackfest "account". Bryce, can you confirm these numbers? It has been suggested to me that we selectively invite recently new active participants in the Inkscape community who would not otherwise qualify for travel assistance. I like this idea as it would help to encourage new participants to keep contributing. I would propose asking the Inkscape community to nominate people for a $500 special invitation. Tav

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Contract for room use in Leeds.
by Tavmjong Bah 23 Feb '16

23 Feb '16

Hi, I've attached the contract for using the room in Leeds as well as their customer form. Please look it over. I noted the 180£ charge for 15 outlets and have asked Alex if it is really necessary to have professionally taped down outlets. What is the mechanism for paying this through SFC. Can we get them to transfer the fee directly? Thanks, Tav

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