- Inkscape Board of Directors

Sydney SVG WG Meeting
by Tavmjong Bah 06 Feb '15

06 Feb '15

Hi, I would like to attend the SVG working group meeting in Sydney next month. The working group is targeting this meeting to move the SVG 2 specification into "last call" at which point no new features can be added and incomplete features can be dropped. It is an important meeting to attend to make sure that features that are important to Inkscape remain in the specification. The full justification for attending is in the attached proposal (which is also checked into the Inkscape board bzr repository). The cost of attending (both financial and time) is higher than previous meetings that I have attended with Inkscape's support but I think the importance of this meeting justifies it. Note, reports from previously attended SVG WG meetings can be found on my blog: http://tavmjong.free.fr/blog/ Tav Proposal: [ ] a. Approve funding Tav to attend the Sydney SVG WG meeting as outlined below, for a total of up to $2250. [ ] b. Do not approve funding Tav. Background: I (Tav) would like funding to attend the Sydney SVG working group meeting, to be held February 11-14, 2015. The first day will be a joint meeting with the CSS working group. At this meeting, the SVG working group plans on moving the SVG 2 specification to "Last Call". At this point the specification is essentially feature complete with no new features to be added and incomplete features removed. It is an important meeting to attend in person to make sure that features important to Inkscape such as mesh gradients, hatched fills, and auto-flowed text are not dropped. It also is a last chance to add new features adopted like text-on-a-shape or resolve problems such as getting proper closing of paths. The meeting also is an opportunity to lobby the browsers to implement SVG 2 features already supported by Inkscape such as the 'context-fill' and 'context-stroke' values for the 'fill' and 'stroke' properties which allows automatically matching marker fill color to path stroke color and the 'auto-reverse-start' value for the marker orientation which allows an arrow marker to be used both at the start and end of a path. Progress on SVG 2 can be followed at: https://svgwg.org/svg2-draft/ My presentations at the last SVG working group meeting can be found at: http://tavmjong.free.fr/SVG/tpac_2014.html and a meeting report at: http://tavmjong.free.fr/blog/?p=1154 Approximate cost for Sydney Transportation: Paris to Syndey: $1500 6 nights lodging/meals: $ 750 Tavmjong Bah

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Jenkins email
by Johan Engelen 24 Jan '15

24 Jan '15

Hi all, What email service do you want to use for Jenkins to send us mails? For example, I can set up a Gmail account for this. thanks, Johan

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Resignation
by Johan Engelen 12 Jan '15

12 Jan '15

Hi all, I want to give you a heads-up that I am probably going to resign my board membership soon. There are many reasons. Not worrying about Inkscape for the past few weeks has been very nice, without any bad emotions behind the keyboard. It is a pity, and I feel sorry about it. I'd like to stay on to finish the FSA thing, so that we get that done, and then resign shortly after. regards, Johan

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OSUOSL contribution
by Bryce Harrington 04 Jan '15

04 Jan '15

Some years ago we made a $200 donation to OSUOSL in thanks for services provided[1]. I'd like to propose we make another $200 donation this year. Thoughts? Bryce 1: http://sourceforge.net/p/inkscape/mailman/message/172490/

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Developer book campaign 2014
by Johan Engelen 03 Dec '14

03 Dec '14

Hi all, I'd like to get the developer book campaign done before the holiday season this year. The proposal is in board-docs: proposals/developer_education_book_campaign_2014.txt Differences with last year are: - *sum* of ohloh.net 12-month rankings for Inkscape *and lib2geom* - extended book choice: Stackoverflow list of good C++ books We had a bit of a discussion on IRC about this. For simplicity, I think it'd be good if we keep this a developer education campaign, i.e. C++ books. And then have another something for the non-coders. We of course appreciate those efforts too, I just don't know how to "rank" them and what to give. Something fun was proposed: add randomization to it. So, we pick 10 out of the top 25 committers. The picking is done randomly, where your win-chance is proportional to your commit count (p = your #commits / total #commits) regards, Johan

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Weekly meeting today
by Tavmjong Bah 03 Dec '14

03 Dec '14

Hi, We'll be having an IRC meeting today (Wednesday, Dec. 3rd, 20:00 UTC). The agenda and IRC channel info can be found at: http://wiki.inkscape.org/wiki/index.php/Board_Meetings Everybody is welcome to join the discussion. We'll continue the discussion of raising money for the Hackfest we'll be holding before the LGM meeting in Toronto as well as discussing other topics. You can read more about the Hackfest at: http://wiki.inkscape.org/wiki/index.php/Hackfest2015 Hope to see you there, Tav

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Continuous Integration
by Johan Engelen 28 Nov '14

28 Nov '14

Hi all, The Jenkins server seems to work well. Today we got extra space (30GB total now), so now we should have plenty for: - trunk build, unittest, etc. - release, unittest, etc. - rendertest (trunk only?) - 2geom trunk, tests, etc. - wishes? 1. I want to give more people access to Jenkins. If only to be able to restart builds if something simple goes wrong (bzr sometimes crashes, which fails the build. Simply clicking the Build Now button fixes that). Ping me on IRC for login details. I prevented people from signing up, because it quickly creates a mess of users in my previous experience. Perhaps there is a better way. Access rights are pretty granular btw. No root rights required for everybody, keeping OSUOSL happy. 2. I would greatly appreciate it if someone can help me to quickly forward port 80 to 8080, so that we can access jenkins simpler through http://jenkins.inkscape.org 3. Bryce, when we have released and things are quieter for you, let's set up Coverity together. 4. Simple mail send-only capability must be set up. I have no experience with this. Help is welcome. 5. I'll try to get rendertests going. Tomasz's branch output looks great. 6. Remember Josh's post about inkscape-tester, sign up for it! cheers, Johan

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Next Inkscape board meeting
by Tavmjong Bah 26 Nov '14

26 Nov '14

Hi, We'll be having an IRC meeting today (Wednesday, November 26th, 20:00 UTC). The agenda and IRC channel info can be found at: http://wiki.inkscape.org/wiki/index.php/Board_Meetings Everybody is welcome to join the discussion. We'll continue the discussion of the Hackfest we'll be holding before the LGM meeting in Toronto as well as discussing fund raising, testing, etc. You can read more about the Hackfest at: http://wiki.inkscape.org/wiki/index.php/Hackfest2015 Hope to see you there, Tav

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Assembly
by Johan Engelen 21 Nov '14

21 Nov '14

http://www.theverge.com/2014/11/21/7258667/assembly-collaborative-work-open…

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Next Inkscape board meeting: focus on Hackfest 2015
by Tavmjong Bah 18 Nov '14

18 Nov '14

Hi, Our next IRC board meeting is schedule for Wednesday, November 12th, 20:00 UTC. The agenda and IRC channel info can be found at: wiki.inkscape.org/wiki/index.php/Board_Meetings Everybody is welcome to join the discussion. This is an important meeting as we need to finalize some of the details for the LGM Hackfest. We need to decide: * Place (Toronto or Boston) * Date (before or after LGM) * Duration (two or three days) * Attendance You can read more about the proposed meet up at: http://wiki.inkscape.org/wiki/index.php/Hackfest2015 See you Wednesday, Tav

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