- Inkscape Board of Directors

Supporting the board - and Hello!
by Donna Benjamin 22 Feb '15

22 Feb '15

Howdy Inkscape Board List! I responded to Bryce's call for volunteers to support the board's work. So thought I'd pop in, say Hi, and introduce myself. I'm a long time fan and user of Inkscape, after being introduced to it by Andy Fitzsimon at linux.conf.au way back in 2006! I've been involved in various free and open source software groups of one kind of another for even longer. From software freedom day, to being president of my local linux user's group, to my current involvement with the Drupal project and Drupal association. I can't code, but I can help with administrivia, event organising and community communications. So, Hi, I'm Donna and I'm here to help ;) Bryce forwarded some docs, so I've just published some small changes to the english version of the Governance page. https://inkscape.org/en/about/governance/ Unfortunately, I'm not multi-lingual, so haven't attempted to update the French, German and Spanish pages. (is there a process for coordinating with people around this?) cheers Donna

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Needed: Hackfest Coordinator
by Bryce Harrington 21 Feb '15

21 Feb '15

We'll be having a hackfest for the 3 days prior to the Libre Graphics Meeting in Toronto. I'd like to put out a call for a volunteer to serve as event coordinator for this. Responsibilities will include coordinating expense reimbursements, liaising with the LGM coordinators, and handling other misc. tasks that come up. I'll be attending and will be available to help, but I'd like to focus more on technicals so would appreciate a dedicated events person. Contact me off list if interested and we'll sort out details. Bryce

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SVG Working Group - Sydney report
by Tavmjong Bah 20 Feb '15

20 Feb '15

Hi, I have posted a report from last weeks SVG face-to-face meeting in Sydney: http://tavmjong.free.fr/blog/?p=1226 It was a very successful meeting: * We worked through many of the remaining issues on auto-flowed text with the participation of the CSS working group. * My proposal for text-on-a-shape was approved. * My proposal for 'auto-closing' of curved paths was approved. * My proposal for 'auto-smoothing' of mesh gradients was approved. * A new "clipped' miter line-join was approved. (Instead of falling back to a bevel line join when the miter-limit is exceeded, the line-join is clipped at the limit.) * How the miter-limit effects the arc line-join was decided. * We resolved most of the important issues blocking moving the SVG 2 spec to the next stage of the specification process and targeted the next face-to-face meeting in June for making the transition. * None of the important features for Inkscape were removed from the core SVG 2 specification (except marker knockouts which still needs a lot of work). Tav

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[REFERENDUM] Budget for 2015
by Bryce Harrington 20 Feb '15

20 Feb '15

A majority vote of the current board members is required for approving this budget. Proposal: 1. Adoption of the Rev2 budget described below for use as guidance in financial voting for 2015. 2. 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 #2" (below) [ ] b. Revise budget with the following changes recommended: _____________________________________________________ _____________________________________________________ [ ] c. Do not establish a budget for 2015 Background: We have $31,000 in savings presently. We typically get between $3,000 and $8,000 in yearly donations, with a trend averaging at $7,000 in the last few years. However, this year we are experimenting with allowing donors to earmark their donations to specific budget items (i.e. Hackfest). This is not intended to be a formal budget, but rather to serve as a planning aid and to inform decisionmaking. The board must still vote on each specific expense, and in particular they are not restricted from voting larger or smaller amounts than is budgeted here. Item Amount ------------- ------ SVG Working Group(*) $2,250 LGM 2015 2,500 [1] Hackfest 2015 2,500 (+ sponsorship) [2] SCALE(*) 250 Other events 500 [3] Funded Development 750 [4] Developer Education 500 [5] Grants (OSUOSL)($) 250 Contingency 500 ------ ------ Total $10,000 Reserve $21,000 Expected Income $ 5,000 [6] Notes ----- (*): Budget item already approved by board ($): Budget item already paid out [1]: With the hackfest co-located with LGM, we anticipate charging half of airfair costs against LGM, half against Hackfest. [2]: The plan for the hackfest is to pay for it 100% through sponsorship and earmarked fundraising. This budget item allocates $2,500 as contingency in case the hackfest fundraising does not raise its full amount. [3]: This budget item covers material costs (buttons, stickers, banners, etc.) as well as travel sponsorship, for events where Inkscape will have a presence (e.g. booth, presentation, development discussion, etc.) [4]: This is intended as seed money for three projects ($250 each), with earmarked fundraising used for further funding. [5]: This amount covers books, training courses, and other expenses that result in improvements to our community's skills, knowledge, and abilities for research, development, QA, producing, and marketing the Inkscape software. [6]: This budget item provides for donations to other non-profit organizations. [7]: This is just a guess for how much will be donated to Inkscape's General Fund. This assumes $2,000 less than 2014's ~$7,000 due to redirecting donors to the hackfest for the first few months of the year.

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[accounting: $200 sent to OSU (was Re: [Re: OSUOSL contribution])]
by Bryce Harrington 14 Feb '15

14 Feb '15

----- Forwarded message from "Bradley M. Kuhn" <accounting@...41...> ----- Date: Fri, 13 Feb 2015 19:08:19 -0500 From: "Bradley M. Kuhn" <accounting@...41...> To: inkscape@...41... Subject: $200 sent to OSU (was Re: [bryce@...2...: Re: [Inkscape-board] OSUOSL contribution]) > On Mon, Jan 05, 2015 at 06:08:17PM -0800, Bryce Harrington wrote: >> Tony/Karen/Bradley, please cut a check in the amount of $200 from >> Inkscape to "OSU Foundation", and send to: Bryce Harrington wrote on 19 January: > Could someone let me know when this check has been sent, so we can > mention it on our website? I apologize for not replying to this email sooner. The check was sent during the week of 2015-02-02. -- Bradley M. Kuhn President & Distinguished Technologist of Software Freedom Conservancy |------> & also, de-facto Bookkeeper since we can't afford to hire one. Pls donate so we can increase staff: https://sfconservancy.org/supporter/ ----- End forwarded message -----

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Inkscape board resignation
by MenTaLguY 13 Feb '15

13 Feb '15

I'm stepping down from the Inkscape board, effective immediately. I haven't had a lot of time or energy to invest in Inkscape development or board activities for the past few years, and I think it's time I let someone else have a go. -mental (Tim)

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Re: [Inkscape-board] draft Inkscape FSA
by Bryce Harrington 12 Feb '15

12 Feb '15

On Wed, Feb 11, 2015 at 07:07:45PM -0500, Tony Sebro wrote: > On 02/11/2015 06:57 PM, Bryce Harrington wrote: > > On Wed, Feb 11, 2015 at 05:31:08PM -0500, Tony Sebro wrote: > >> Inkscape's PLC is already bound by Conservancy's conflict of interest > >> policy [1]. > > Fwiw, this is the first I've seen of that. > Hmm. I'm fairly certain we sent the policy around to the > project-reps@...41... address. If we didn't, I apologize. > Either way, we need to do a better job of making sure that projects are > aware of our organization's policy. I don't recall receiving anything to or from a 'project-reps@...41...' address. Perhaps I got excluded? http://lists.sfconservancy.org shows no such list name. > >> The goal here is to prevent a corporation from taking > >> control over the project by hiring PLC members and/or otherwise > >> dominating the PLC, so that they could exploit Conservancy's nonprofit > >> structure to handle activities that really should fall under their > >> for-profit structure. It's not my intent to make this section onerous; > >> we can discuss ways to make it fit Inkscape's community standards. > > For much of the life of the project, Ted, Tim, and I all worked for > > Canonical, and served on the board as the project founders. Canonical > > could have cared less about Inkscape and had zero influence on board > > matters. > > > > Presently Jon and I both work for Samsung, having both just recently > > joined there. Samsung cares even less about Inkscape than Canonical > > did. Yet if this provision goes into effect, one or the other of us > > will have to step down. > > > Understood. For what it's worth, I've never received anyone complain or > insinuate that Inkscape is controlled or influenced by any one > corporation. Still: if an issue were to come up in the future, the > Inkscape Committee may benefit from avoiding even the optics of influence. > > What if we moved from "more than one member employed" to "more than 1/3" > or "more than 40%"? Would that give the Committee enough wiggle room > going forward? Probably should speak in fractions of sevenths, otherwise rounding is ambiguous. A hard limit of 3/7th would avoid majority control by any one employer while being flexible with membership. Bryce

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Code of Conduct Vote
by Martin Owens 12 Feb '15

12 Feb '15

Dear Board, The website's code of conduct text needs redrafting and formally voting on. It should be a document reflecting the social norms we have and that these would be in force on the website with moderation and art submissions. This is what we have so far, it's a bit of a fragment paste bin at the moment: https://inkscape.org/en/community/coc/ We could do with the help from a friendly inkscape docs contributor to draft it into something usable as well as the inkscape board to ratify it with a vote. Thanks for all your help. Best Regards, Martin Owens

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Pre-approving projects for funding
by Bryce Harrington 11 Feb '15

11 Feb '15

One of the capabilities the new funded development policy[0] gives us is the ability to specify some projects as immediately fundable, without needing to wait the proscribed 6 months. I would like to propose we select a few projects to pre-approve, in order to prime the pump, and to serve for testing out the process. When we started this whole effort, KK suggested a number of good projects. These perhaps need a bit more elaboration but give something to select from. Would you guys please look through this list for 2-3 projects you think would make good initial fundable projects? Nominate ones that are well-contained and straightforward - things that would make appropriate GSoC projects for example. Please feel free to expound on the project definitions. http://wiki.inkscape.org/wiki/index.php/Projects I'll collect everyone's nominations into a list, and we'll vote on them. Projects that get >50% vote will be made pre-approved. Bryce 0: See "Section 6: Process Exceptions" http://inkscape.org/en/contribute/funded-devel/

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[REFERENDUM] Produce materials for SCALE 13x
by Jon A. Cruz 10 Feb '15

10 Feb '15

A majority vote of the current board members is required for this matter. Proposal: Reimburse the cost of producing: * Up to $200 for a one-time expense to create an Inkscape stand-up banner for shows and conferences * Up to $80 for hand-out materials including mini-stickers and mini-cards with hackfest fundraising info. * Total limit of $250 for the one-time and hand-out expenses combined. Jon A. Cruz will coordinate acquisition of items and setup for the Inkscape booth at SCALE 13x. [ ] a. Yes, approve this funding proposal. [ ] b. I might vote yes for a more limited proposal [ ] c. No, do not provide funding for conference materials Background: Inkscape has participated in SCALE conferences for several years now. The exhibit floor reaches a wide audience including businessmen from various industries, students and educators, other open source projects and the general population. Some years back we used a generic Libre Graphics banner that had been provided by Andy Fitzsimon. It has gotten worn out over the years, but also was never Inkscape-specific. Currently as one project member noted "Our barren booth at SCALE is kind of an embarrassment... we're a graphics app and we have the stock generic "banner" they provide us with." A non-retracting two-sided floor banner should be about $170 plus tax and shipping. This item should last several years, and can be shipped as needed to different conferences. The mini-card portion of the hand-out materials runs about $20 plus shipping and handling. It has been noted that them bringing in just a few small donations (perhaps 3-4) could more than make up for their expense. But at the least they can help raise awareness of Inkscape and appreciation for it in the general population. -- Jon A. Cruz jon@...9...

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