- Inkscape Board of Directors

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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Sponsorship
by Josh Andler 23 Feb '16

23 Feb '16

Hi, It would be really great if we could get the sponsorship reward level stuff nailed down sooner rather than later. The last off-list email I sent regarding this didn't seem to get any response, so I figured we'd just move the discussion on to the list to see if it helps move things forward. I received a follow-up email from the potential donor with $5,000 and I still had nothing new to tell him. A donor having to follow-up because I didn't have a substantive response to provide is not a good thing... especially when weeks later I have literally no new info for them. I was also contacted again by someone who produces educational courses for Inkscape who would like to donate via profit sharing if we'd be willing to promote his courses. Since he originally contacted me a year ago, he has garnered 5,000 sales of his courses. His proposal is to donate half of the proceeds moving forward. So, in his case it would be a unique situation since his donation amount wouldn't be predictable. I think it has the potential to be hugely beneficial to both parties. Any thoughts, comments, or questions would be appreciated just so the conversation goes somewhere. Cheers, Josh

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Competition
by Martin Owens 18 Feb '16

18 Feb '16

Hi guys, I've been asked to spread this openclipart competition, before I go ahead though, I'd like to get a nod from one other board member that this looks legit and ok: http://blog.fossasia.org/fossasia-and-openclipart-launch-internet-things-t-… Best Regards, Martin Owens

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Leed's hackfest: Location reservation
by Tavmjong Bah 15 Feb '16

15 Feb '16

Hi, Alex has tentatively reserved a place for the hackfest. He needs to know ASAP if he can go through with the reservation. The rough cost is: For ten people (the number signed up at the moment): Room: 150£ per day: 450£ Tea, coffee, biscuits: 5£ per person per day: 150£ Finger buffet: 8.50£ per person per day: 255£ Total: 955£ Exchange rate: 0.69£ to 1 US$ $1383 This seems like a reasonable amount to me. Tav

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Gitlab accounts
by Krzysztof Kosiński 10 Feb '16

10 Feb '16

Please send me your Gitlab account names, so I can add you to the Inkscape group on Gitlab. Best regards, Krzysztof

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Hackfest Venue
by Tavmjong Bah 26 Jan '16

26 Jan '16

Hi, As most of you already know, our original venue for the Leeds hackfest fell through. Alex is looking for another venue which will probably not be free. What would be a reasonable amount to allocate for a venue? I've already suggested to Alex that a few hundred pounds would seem reasonable to me for a three day hackfest. What do you all think? Tav

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Fwd: Upgrade to Project Summary Pages - Inkscape
by Josh Andler 16 Jan '16

16 Jan '16

I received this email and assume anyone else that's a project owner of Inkscape on SF received it too. I'm in the home stretch for SCALE with deadlines up to my eyeballs, so I can't really add this to my todo list to take care of in the next week. I'm not a fan of them initiating this, especially given our desire to move away from them completely at some point. Cheers, Josh ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Elizabeth Daniels <edaniels@...125...> Date: Fri, Jan 15, 2016 at 4:16 PM Subject: Upgrade to Project Summary Pages - Inkscape To: sfcommunity <communityteam@...126...> To help you enhance your project summary pages so visitors can quickly decide if your software fits their needs, we added a new feature to the page called the "Editor's Review <https://sourceforge.net/blog/announcing-new-editors-reviews>". Our Community Team, along with myself as the Senior Editor at SourceForge, manages this review. The Editor's Review includes a written review with the top features and images and/or a short video preview, depending on the project. For example, here’s a video we’ve come up with for your project: https://youtu.be/DbFrLE91CmU If we don’t hear from you in a week, we’ll go ahead and add this video review to your SourceForge project page. If you wish us to edit or improve it, please let us know and we'll pause it until edited. If you think that this video just doesn't fit your Project Summary Page let us know, and we'll remove it right away. We can also help you obtain up-to-date screenshots that promote the best qualities of your product (or you can them to your project summary page). As you know, nothing grabs a user’s attention like images when they’re trying to decide on a product. Let us know if you have any questions and thanks for being part of the SourceForge community! -- Elizabeth Daniels Senior Content Editor SourceForge.net <http://sourceforge.net> | 415.713.0229

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[REFERENDUM] Donation to Software Freedom Consortium for 2016
by Bryce Harrington 14 Jan '16

14 Jan '16

== Proposal == Should a $600 donation be made to the Software Freedom Consortium in thanks for their services provided? == Votes == Tavmjong Bah Ted Gould Jon A. Cruz Bryce Harrington Josh Andler Krzysztof Kosiński Martin Owens == Resolved == A $600 donation should be made to SFC. == Background == 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 * Note that many employers will match on donations to charities, so this is worth checking into as it'll double the impact of your donation. * Currently 10% of Inkscape's net income is provided to SFC, as is standard for all projects SFC manages. * Inkscape made a one-time donation to SFC as part of our Fiscal Services Agreement effort last year, in the amount of $1600 ($400 per year from 2009-2012), plus a retroactive payment of 10% for income received since 2012.

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