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Fwd: [Inkscape-devel] Additional Inkscape Funding - paying developers feature by feature
by Johan Engelen 04 Dec '13

04 Dec '13

Hi all, Please read Martin's email below. " Any project based funding will have to go through the board and the Free Software Conservancy who handle those aspects of the project. " The way I understood things is: if someone is payed to work on Inkscape, that is fine and is not our business (and has happened in the past though similar funding websites, correct?). I thought it becomes our business if the funding/fundraising is brought as an official Inkscape activity, or on deciding whether code lands in trunk, or trademark/copyright issues etc. So, although (much) payed development next to unpayed volunteer development is debatable, I don't think we can (or should try to) prevent such independent funding website projects. regards, Johan On 3-12-2013 19:09, Martin Owens wrote: On Tue, 2013-12-03 at 15:31 +0000, Anna Morris wrote: > Please let me know what you think and if you are interested in getting > funding this way, either as a group of core-developers or, if not, as > an individual developer. Hi Anna, Any project based funding will have to go through the board and the Free Software Conservancy who handle those aspects of the project. I wonder if we can have a license to fund from the board. A sort of sanction to seek funding in a specific way under Inkscape's umbrella. It wouldn't need money to flow through SFC, but could help routing costs. In any regard; the small project pattern should make it easier to make that request. Best Regards, Martin Owens

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Re: [Inkscape-board] final steps re: Inkscape TM policy, logo copyrights (was Inkscape Committee: additional votes needed)
by Bryce W. Harrington 03 Dec '13

03 Dec '13

On Tue, Dec 03, 2013 at 01:54:44PM -0500, Tony Sebro wrote: > On 12/03/2013 01:41 PM, Bryce W. Harrington wrote: > >Quick question. Now that our DNS is held by SFC, who is the > >contact person for doing DNS changes? Our new website is ready to > >go immediately, we just need the DNS flipped. Specifically, we > >need inkscape.org and www.inkscape.org pointed at py1.osuosl.org > >(140.211.15.230). Bryce > That would be Bradley. So, this is ready to go ASAP? If so, I'll > follow up with Bradley and get it flipped. Yep, it's ready to go ASAP. Please get it flipped. This should also finally resolve the google checkout link problem, since that's already fixed in the new layout. (Please give feedback if you see any remaining problems with the donations page). Bryce

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Re: [Inkscape-board] final steps re: Inkscape TM policy, logo copyrights (was Inkscape Committee: additional votes needed)
by Bryce W. Harrington 03 Dec '13

03 Dec '13

On Tue, Dec 03, 2013 at 01:15:14PM -0500, Tony Sebro wrote: > On 12/02/2013 05:26 PM, Bryce Harrington wrote: > >Hi, sorry to resurrect this old thread, but just wanted to check back > >again on where we are with it. I know updating the website has probably > >been blocked due to the new site development, but hopefully that should > >be live shortly. Ted, can you make sure something's included about this > >in the new website, and draft up an announce for the mailing list? > > > >Are there any other tasks needed to bring this project to completion? > > > Thanks for resurrecting this thread, Bryce. As I said back in May: > in addition to posting the policy itself as a new page on the > website, I'd also recommend including another Q & A in the Legal > section of the Wiki FAQ pointing visitors to the TM policy page. > > Once the policy has been posted, then we can start the clock on > giving the Inkscape community a chance to object to our intent to > license the copyrights in the logo itself under CC-By-SA 3.0 US. > > Thanks! Best, -Tony Thanks Tony. Quick question. Now that our DNS is held by SFC, who is the contact person for doing DNS changes? Our new website is ready to go immediately, we just need the DNS flipped. Specifically, we need inkscape.org and www.inkscape.org pointed at py1.osuosl.org (140.211.15.230). Bryce

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Re: [Inkscape-board] final steps re: Inkscape TM policy, logo copyrights (was Inkscape Committee: additional votes needed)
by Bryce Harrington 03 Dec '13

03 Dec '13

On Tue, May 28, 2013 at 03:15:16PM -0400, Tony Sebro wrote: > On 05/28/2013 02:10 PM, Bryce Harrington wrote: > >Hi Tony, I posted an email the other day with the vote tally, but > >maybe it was to the wrong alias. Anyway, I voted yea as well, and > >so we have a majority in favor, and the issue can now be closed. > >Thanks, Bryce > Yes; I hadn't seen your email at the time I replied to the thread. > Bradley has since brought me up to speed. Thanks! > > As a next step, the adopted policy should be posted as a new page on > the Inkscape.org website. I'd also recommend creating another Q & A > under Section 8 ("Legal") of the Wiki FAQ that points visitors to > the trademark policy page. Once the policy page is live, I can > engage the company that was using the Inkscape trademark. Josh, can you forward these new requirements to the website guys to implement? > Now, we still have an open issue re: the ownership of the copyrights > in the mountain graphic logo. Given that we've been struggling to > compile a complete list of copyright owners in the mark, I recommend > that we do the following: > > 1. Publish the TM policy on the website in the manner described above. > 2. Send a notice of the new TM policy to various Inkscape community > user groups and fora (e.g., inkscape-user, inkscape-announce, > Inkscapeforum.com, etc.). In the notice, declare our intent to > license the copyrights to the logo under CC-By-SA 3.0 US, and give > any copyright holders 60 days to step forward and object. > > The TM policy (including the section re: logo usage) will be in > effect during that 60-day period, but we'd always reserve the right > to discuss changing the copyright license if a copyright holder were > to step forward and object. > > I can provide draft language for the notice. Let me know what else > I can do to help the committee finalize the process. This all sounds fine with me. Ted, IIRC you were the one that got the ball rolling initially on this; can you review and close the loops on any follow up tasks to notify the community and so on? Bryce > Best, > -Tony > > -- > Tony Sebro, General Counsel, Software Freedom Conservancy > +1-212-461-3245 x11 > tony@...41... > www.sfconservancy.org

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Considering stepping down
by Johan Engelen 02 Dec '13

02 Dec '13

Hello all, I'm considering stepping down, resigning from Inkscape's board. For the past months, I've lacked the motivation to spend enough time on board matters. It's been a disappointing (in myself) experience. Moreover, recently, although there were fun moments, they are overshadowed by a number of very negative experiences on the maillist/community and I want to be able to stop reading the maillist and just pull the plug for a while. Also, already not having/spending the time to reply to messages I want to reply to is already frustrating. It feels very bad already simply considering unsubscribing from the dev maillist that I've been reading for such a long time. But the bad experiences really stick for a long time (this weekend for example has been ruined), and the simple solution is to just not have them. It is much easier to simply contribute to Inkscape on the side, whenever I want to, and with whom I choose to. Somehow I've lost a lot of the fun when working on Inkscape. Don't know how I can find it back. regards, Johan

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Re: [Inkscape-board] URGENT: please remove Google Checkout links from your site ASAP
by Bryce Harrington 20 Nov '13

20 Nov '13

On Tue, Nov 19, 2013 at 05:47:31PM -0500, Tony Sebro wrote: > On 11/19/2013 05:44 PM, Bryce Harrington wrote: > >Hi Tony, > > > >In fact, Inkscape is in process of replacing the website entirely, with > >an upgraded design. The ETA for that switchover I believe is a couple > >weeks. > > > >For the current site, I'm not sure we still have ssh access to the > >machine it's hosted on (I gather the person who owns the hardware the > >site runs on has been inactive.) Anyway, I believe an issue is that no > >one can edit the current site. Maybe someone who knows more about it > >can fill us in? > > > >Anyway, I believe this is the hold up. If you feel it is extremely > >urgent, maybe we can look at moving up the switchover date. Otherwise, > >I'd like to see things proceed as scheduled, to avoid errors from > >rushing things. > What's your projected switchover date, as currently scheduled? It's scheduled for by the end of the month; see below. Bryce On Tue, 2013-11-19 at 15:58 -0800, Bryce Harrington wrote: > Thanks, what is the ETA for this switchover? Last week of November was my target date. I'm confident it'll be switched by next week. We have OSL on the ticket today for the new mysql database and I've got everything from the repo to the nginx config ready. Once live.inkscape.org points to py1, it can be tested. Once it checks out, inkscape.org and www.inkscape.org can be pointed to the same. Martin,

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Re: [Inkscape-board] URGENT: please remove Google Checkout links from your site ASAP
by Bryce Harrington 19 Nov '13

19 Nov '13

Hi Tony, In fact, Inkscape is in process of replacing the website entirely, with an upgraded design. The ETA for that switchover I believe is a couple weeks. For the current site, I'm not sure we still have ssh access to the machine it's hosted on (I gather the person who owns the hardware the site runs on has been inactive.) Anyway, I believe an issue is that no one can edit the current site. Maybe someone who knows more about it can fill us in? Anyway, I believe this is the hold up. If you feel it is extremely urgent, maybe we can look at moving up the switchover date. Otherwise, I'd like to see things proceed as scheduled, to avoid errors from rushing things. Bryce On Tue, Nov 19, 2013 at 05:34:57PM -0500, Tony Sebro wrote: > Hi, all: > I note that you still have a Google Checkout link on the Inkscape > website (specifically, on your "Donate to Inkscape" page). > > As was announced a few weeks ago, Google is sunsetting their Google > Checkout service as of tomorrow (November 20) [1]. To avoid > creating problems for your donors (and for Conservancy), I ask that > you please remove any Google Checkout links from your website > immediately. > > Thanks! Best, -Tony > > [1] for more information on Google's time frame for shutting down > Google Checkout, please refer to: > https://support.google.com/checkout/sell/answer/3080449?hl=en-GB > > -- > Tony Sebro, General Counsel, Software Freedom Conservancy > +1-212-461-3245 x11 > tony@...41... > www.sfconservancy.org

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Web site control
by Tavmjong Bah 11 Nov '13

11 Nov '13

Hi, I've exchanged a couple of emails with Martin Owens. He has asked: "Who has access to the current live website and the dns records?" Does anyone know the answer? Does anyone have comments about the Inkscape website he's been working on?[1] Is there anything that needs to be done before we switch to it? Tav [1] http://staging.inkscape.org/

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Inkscape accounts on various sites
by Josh Andler 08 Nov '13

08 Nov '13

Hey all, So, there are some instances where we have accounts on sites like twitter or deviantart where I or someone else may be the only person who has the password. How do we want to go about centralizing, securing, yet sharing this info with those who need it? Also, in the case of Twitter, since Conservancy had to provide the legal information to Twitter for us to get control of that account, a conservancy address is the password recovery mechanism. Personally, I actually like the feel of that. It seems appropriate that they serve in that protective role IMHO. What are people's thoughts on this subject? Cheers, Josh

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Website: inkscape.org/conservancy
by Johan Engelen 08 Nov '13

08 Nov '13

Hi all, Today I discovered this page: http://inkscape.org/conservancy/ I think it needs updating or should be archived/deleted? Somewhere it should say that we are a member of the conservancy (I couldn't find it in any case) and we should have a link to the conservancy's website too. Could be something really simple, like a one-line sentence on this page here: http://staging.inkscape.org/en/about/ What are your thoughts? regards, Johan

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