- Inkscape Board of Directors

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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Regular meetings
by Johan Engelen 11 Nov '14

11 Nov '14

Hi all, (just got back from a very nice long weekend at the GSoC summit in San Jose :)) We had a nice discussion with Brad and Karen over lunch at the GSoC summit. What came up is having regular board meetings. I think this would be great for us and make things a bit more structured / easier to follow. How about we schedule a meeting (for board only) once every month, e.g. every first Monday of the month? What do you think? cheers, Johan

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Code of Conduct Page
by Martin Owens 02 Nov '14

02 Nov '14

Dear Board, To help move the code of conduct forwards, we've (by which I mean Maren) has put together a draft page. All board members have editing rights on the website so you should be able to edit it directly if you need to. https://inkscape.org/en/community/coc/ Once you're happy with the draft, we'll make it live (in the menu) and add links from various social spots such as the comment boxes and IRC page. So do respond to this email with your thoughts too. Thanks for your time. Best Regards, Martin Owens Webmaster

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Document Foundation (OpenOffice)
by Tavmjong Bah 29 Oct '14

29 Oct '14

Hi, I am thinking it might be good to look at other projects for ideas on how they handle various issues in raising money. Here are some links for OpenOffice: Good discussions: http://planet.documentfoundation.org/ (Why can planet.inkscape.org be like this?) Donation page: http://donate.libreoffice.org/ Supporters page: https://www.documentfoundation.org/supporters/ Tav

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Website CoC
by Martin Owens 27 Oct '14

27 Oct '14

Dear Board, Maren Hachmann is adding commenting functionality into the website. We have an empty link to a code of conduct page which we'd like to have, which describes the kind of behavior expected of community participants. Untimely we want to be able to deal with flagged comments without causing fuss. Having set rules and processes would be good. If there is an existing CoC, we should copy it onto the website. Please let me know either way. Best regards, Martin Owens

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Hacking Sessions
by Tavmjong Bah 15 Oct '14

15 Oct '14

Hi, I propose we have two hacking sessions: The first would be at RedHat in January as proposed by Máirín Duffy. This session would focus on GTK problems and the user-interface. I think the opportunity to have RedHat GTK+ experts help us is too good of an offer to pass up. A specific goal would be to improve the Mac OSX port which is suffering from GTK related canvas redraw issues. I envision this hacking session be small so it would be easy to organize. It would be open to only those who have already dealt with GTK, Mac OSX, interface issues, or have deep knowledge of the Inkscape code base. Candidates to invite include: su_v, LiamW, Johan, JazzyNico, Alex Valenis, and Jon Cruz. We can ask Martin to coordinate event. This can be viewed as a "warm-up" session where we can gain some experience in organizing this type of event. The second hacking session would be at LGM in April. This would be a larger session, open to all Inkscape developers and covering more issues. What do you all think? Tav

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Inkscape Website T&C
by Martin Owens 13 Oct '14

13 Oct '14

Dear Karen, Sorry if you're not the right person for this question. Please forward tot he right person at the Conservancy. I'm Martin, the webmaster for inkscape.org, we're currently offering the ability to upload files into galleries (10MB quota) and soon will email users alerts if they are involved with translations or when a new release appears etc. These website services should probably mean the website needs a terms and conditions, which would inform users of the limits capacity and service remit we're going for. Something like: "this website and it's services are provided "as is", and you should not expect the services to continue to work or serve any particular need. Your files should never be assumed to be safe here and you should back everything up. Plus we'll email you announcements and other alerts if you want, see your profile settings for details." We could do with some help putting together the right language in the right way to make it clear to users. Thoughts? Best Regards, Martin Owens

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Re: [Inkscape-board] [Inkscape-devel] IRC meeting for hackfest planning and fundraising
by Josh Andler 15 Sep '14

15 Sep '14

1900 UTC On Mon, Sep 15, 2014 at 12:52 AM, Krzysztof Kosiński <tweenk.pl@...23...> wrote: > 2014-09-14 18:40 GMT+02:00 Bryce Harrington <bryce@...2...>: >> >> When: Tomorrow, Monday Sept 15th at 12 noon (3pm eastern) >> Where: #inkscape-devel on Freenode IRC >> Who: Inkscape team; Karen Sandler >> >> Karen and I will be discussing plans/ideas for an upcoming Inkscape >> hackfest. The principal topic we want to discuss is the >> fundraising/budgeting side of things, but other aspects are within >> scope. >> >> All are welcomed to attend, but this will mostly be interesting to >> people wishing to help out in organizing the hackfest and/or >> fundraisers. >> > > This is 7pm GMT, right? > > Regards, Krzysztof > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Want excitement? > Manually upgrade your production database. > When you want reliability, choose Perforce > Perforce version control. Predictably reliable. > http://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/clk?id=157508191&iu=/4140/ostg.clktrk > _______________________________________________ > Inkscape-devel mailing list > Inkscape-devel(a)lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/inkscape-devel >

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IRC meeting for hackfest planning and fundraising
by Bryce Harrington 14 Sep '14

14 Sep '14

When: Tomorrow, Monday Sept 15th at 12 noon (3pm eastern) Where: #inkscape-devel on Freenode IRC Who: Inkscape team; Karen Sandler Karen and I will be discussing plans/ideas for an upcoming Inkscape hackfest. The principal topic we want to discuss is the fundraising/budgeting side of things, but other aspects are within scope. All are welcomed to attend, but this will mostly be interesting to people wishing to help out in organizing the hackfest and/or fundraisers. Bryce

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Re: [Inkscape-board] Hackfest organization
by Johan Engelen 31 Aug '14

31 Aug '14

I agree with Ted. If you want perks, how about giving voting power on what we will work on? -Johan ----- Reply message ----- From: "Ted Gould" <ted@...1...> To: <inkscape-board(a)lists.sourceforge.net> Subject: [Inkscape-board] Hackfest organization Date: Fri, Aug 29, 2014 15:26 On Thu, 2014-08-28 at 21:23 -0700, Bryce Harrington wrote: On Mon, Aug 25, 2014 at 04:18:10PM -0400, Martin Owens wrote: > On Sun, 2014-08-24 at 15:35 +0200, Johan Engelen wrote: > > I've added a brainstorm section to > > http://wiki.inkscape.org/wiki/index.php/Hackfest2015 > > Please have a read and add your own thoughts. > > That seems like a very well put together plan. I'm going to mull over > the details and add in whatever way I can. > > Thanks for helping get this sorted out. When we do fundraising for this event, what would you guys think if we made one of the rewards for $xx contribution be an invitation to join us? (This would imply that we would limit invites to only current contributors or some such.) I'm -1 on that, I think it implies that the event is somehow private or closed. I think it is better to present the event as open to all, with developers getting sponsored attendance. Ted

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