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Re: [Inkscape-board] Paying a stipend to mentors from GSoC 2012?
by Josh Andler 27 Nov '12

27 Nov '12

Krzysztof's email is tweenk.pl@...23... On Tue, Nov 27, 2012 at 5:50 AM, Bradley M. Kuhn <bkuhn@...41...> wrote: > Bryce, thanks for the details on the GSoC payments. I'll reach out to > each mentor and ask them what they want to do. I have all their email > addresses except for: Krzysztof Kosiński > > Can someone send me Krzysztof's email address? > > Bryce Harrington wrote at 18:22 (EST) on Monday: >> The $500 paid by Google should be paid to the mentors. The mentor >> can decline the payment, in which case it will be paid to >> Inkscape. > > Just one subtle point of clarification: the money goes to Inkscape > first, as from Google's point of view, the payment is a donation to the > Inkscape project. Inkscape, in turn, is deciding to fund the mentors. > > From your perspective, the outcome is the same, of course, but I just > wanted to clarify that point because the IRS would probably see the two > situations differently. > -- > Bradley M. Kuhn, Executive Director, Software Freedom Conservancy

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Re: [Inkscape-board] Update of Committee & other matters for Conservancy/Inkscape discussion (was Re: New board members)
by Bryce Harrington 15 Nov '12

15 Nov '12

On Mon, Oct 29, 2012 at 01:13:22PM -0400, Bradley M. Kuhn wrote: > (a) The older FSA's have a bug that Tony discovered when he came to > work for Conservancy. Specifically, they don't have a clear > hand-off from the original signatories of the FSA to the > Project's Leadership Committee. Ideally, the Signatories cede > their authority to the Committee, so we don't have to bug > former committee members with getting signatures if they decide > to move on from the project. The new FSA template fixes this. > > (c) Now might be a good time to update the Representation section > of the FSA. Right now, as you see from (0) above, it requires > explicit resignations to change the Committee, and perhaps that > is too burdensome and problematic, particularly for people who > have moved on from the project. Conservancy can work with you > to redrafted the Representation section to better reflect your > current realities of leadership. As you see in the template, > there a few suggestions of how to draft Representation > sections. Yes, can you draft up replacement text for the 'Representation of the Project in the Conservancy' section? I'm gathering that we need the bit about the "signatories shall initially comprise..." and the text about removing and adding members to cover the bug you mentioned? That seems fairly uncontroversial and basically matches how I think we all assume the board is supposed to work. I notice there is text about handling the case where a committee member (or the committee in large) becomes unreachable. Something like that sounds worthwhile to add, although we probably should vote on that. I've already called for a vote on giving 10% of revenues to the Conservancy. One question I have is that the text says "earmarked revenue". What does "earmarked" mean in this context? Aside from the above, are there any other significant points in the new template we should consider, particularly ones that would require voting on? I see some changes are just shuffling sections around and refactoring verbage. I think once the above points have all gotten voted on, a re-drafting of the FSA would be in order, which can include reformatting and textual refactoring as you see fit. Then probably one more vote on the final product. I suppose this redrafting will require everyone re-signing it? Bryce

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Fwd: Re: Paying a stipend to mentors from GSoC 2012?
by Johan Engelen 14 Nov '12

14 Nov '12

Hi all, I agree with both the possibility for mentors to get paid for their efforts, and also for passing 10% to the Conservancy. (in any case, I will be turning down "my" GSoC money this year) Regards, Johan -------- Original Message -------- Subject: Re: Paying a stipend to mentors from GSoC 2012? Date: Wed, 14 Nov 2012 17:31:19 -0500 From: Bradley M. Kuhn <bkuhn@...41...> Organization: Software Freedom Conservancy To: inkscape@...41... Josh, Thanks so much for your response. Josh Andler wrote at 18:49 (EST) on Tuesday: > In response to both issues. 1) As I've stated in the past, I am okay > with the project paying mentors for their efforts. So, consider that > an official "Yes" from me on this issue. Ok. I'm sorry to be too much with the formalities, but I will need to know officially on behalf of the Inkscape project, and what I have with Josh's comment above is just his opinion as one member of seven of the Inkscape Committee. Also, note that Bryce is still officially the Representative as well, so I really do need Bryce to coordinate some sort of consensus and then inform Conservancy of the decision. -- Bradley M. Kuhn, Executive Director, Software Freedom Conservancy

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maillist subscription
by Johan Engelen 03 Nov '12

03 Nov '12

Hi all, I just subscribed myself to the inkscape-board maillist with my @alumnus mail address. But... no confirmation from an admin was needed. Is that working as intended? That anybody can sign up for this particular list? If so, then I guess I will have to communicate differently. Ciao, Johan

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Re: [Inkscape-board] Update of Committee & other matters for Conservancy/Inkscape discussion (was Re: New board members)
by Tavmjong Bah 29 Oct '12

29 Oct '12

Hi Bradley, It was good to meet you last week. Thanks for following up. I have received the copy of the FSA and I assent to serve on the Committee. Tav On Mon, 2012-10-29 at 13:13 -0400, Bradley M. Kuhn wrote: > Josh, > > Sorry for the delayed reply to this message as well. > > Josh Andler wrote on 24 September: > > We held elections last week for the two open spots on the board. The > > results are in and "Johan Engelen" <jbc.engelen@...31...> & > > "Tavmjong Bah" <tavmjong@...47...> have been elected. I'm guessing that > > you or Tony are the ones to make it all official, so I'm initiating > > the discussion to make it happen. > > I can confirm that Johan and Tavmjong are officially now on the Inkscape > Committee in Conservancy's records and they have been added to the > <inkscape@...41...> alias. I also had the pleasure of meeting > and talking with Tavmjong at the Google Summer of Code Mentor Summit > last weekend. Based on my discussion with him, I realized there were > probably a few things that Conservancy and Inkscape should at this point > discuss: > > 0. As mentioned in a previous email, we do need an official resignation > from Aaron that actually says he resigns. I've left him on the > Committee for the moment until we get that, just to make sure things > are abundantly clear. However, this creates somewhat of an odd > situation, because the current Fiscal Sponsorship Agreement > (attached) calls for 7 Committee members and Aaron's continued > presence makes 8. > > 1. The existing FSA doesn't require signatures from anyone who was newly > elected, but it would be useful if Tavmjong and Johan acknowledge via > email their receipt of the attached copy of the FSA (with sha256sum > of a2020dacc0db0bea45aff3239770f3fe8f9aaff0a8f7d4b575e5554c6c2590d3 > and their assent to serve on the Committee. Tavmjong and Johan, > could you do that? > > 2. Meanwhile, now might be a good time to discuss updating the FSA. > There are a number of reasons that I've discussed in the past with > some of you about updating the FSA, and since there's a change in the > Committee, this might be a good opportunity, for these reasons: > > (a) The older FSA's have a bug that Tony discovered when he came to > work for Conservancy. Specifically, they don't have a clear > hand-off from the original signatories of the FSA to the > Project's Leadership Committee. Ideally, the Signatories cede > their authority to the Committee, so we don't have to bug > former committee members with getting signatures if they decide > to move on from the project. The new FSA template fixes this. > > (b) As I've discussed with a number of you, including Jon, Josh and > Tavmjong, Inkscape has received fiscal sponsorship services > from Conservancy at no charge since 2006. Back when > Conservancy was founded, I was an SFLC employee and SFLC was > subsidizing my time -- effectively donating staff time to > Conservancy. This ceased in early 2008, and I served as a > volunteer for Conservancy on nights/weekends until 2011, when I > became a full-time employee -- which was the only way to keep > it going with the services it promises (the other option would > have been to shut down Conservancy). Since then, to maintain > legal services as part of the service plan once SFLC shrunk > further, we hired Tony as well. We get a lot done with a staff > of two, but obviously we need financial resources to be able to > provide these services. > > Conservancy's Board of Directors voted about a year ago that > all member projects should be required to give 10% of their > earmarked revenue to support Conservancy to continue to provide > services. This is a standard way for a fiscal sponsor to > operate, and we were lucky before that we weren't required to > do this, and I'd been waiting to bother Inkscape with this > since you are one of our older members. (We haven't taken a new > member for anything other than 10% in a few years, BTW). I > hope a 10% arrangement as we use with other projects now will > be acceptable to you, and I and Tony are happy to discuss > further this issue. > > (c) Now might be a good time to update the Representation section > of the FSA. Right now, as you see from (0) above, it requires > explicit resignations to change the Committee, and perhaps that > is too burdensome and problematic, particularly for people who > have moved on from the project. Conservancy can work with you > to redrafted the Representation section to better reflect your > current realities of leadership. As you see in the template, > there a few suggestions of how to draft Representation > sections. > > As mentioned, your current FSA is attached, and the newer FSA > template is actually available publicly at: > http://sfconservancy.org/members/apply/ConservancyFSATemplate.pdf > http://sfconservancy.org/members/apply/conservancy-fsa-template.tex > > Please take a look and let me know if you have any > thoughts/suggestions/questions. >

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Re: [Inkscape-board] NJH resignation process; needed official resignation from Aaron Spike.
by Aaron Spike 29 Oct '12

29 Oct '12

I hereby resign from my position on the Inkscape Board. Aaron Spike

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SourceForge Upgrade
by Josh Andler 07 Oct '12

07 Oct '12

Hey All, SF.net is upgrading their site and all projects. I wanted to give a heads up that I've initiated the transition for us and we are in their queue. Hopefully this will not negatively impact our usage of SF, but, it is something they're going to do to all projects that they host. I apologize in advance that they will be notifying everyone with commit access of code access changes, and I'm sorry if they send other emails to everyone else. Hopefully this will all be for the good in the end, as it's going to be mandatory. Cheers, Josh

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Fwd: Inkscape - Childrens Book
by Alexandre Prokoudine 05 Oct '12

05 Oct '12

FYI, if you've been wondering where some of the donations come from. The book in question: http://www.amazon.com/Ted-wants-Rock-Quaid-Leckey/dp/0473223325 Alexandre Prokoudine http://libregraphicsworld.org ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Quaid <name@...48...> Date: Fri, Oct 5, 2012 at 2:36 PM Subject: Inkscape - Childrens Book To: alexandre.prokoudine@...23... Hi There! I was just writing to let you know about a children’s book I’ve put together with Inkscape as my predominant illustration platform. The book is titled: ‘Ted wants to Rock!’ and is about a teddy bear who wants to become a rock star. It was recently released and is available from Amazon, so I would very much like to take this time to thank you guys for an excellent piece of software! I will be donating to the cause depending on whether or not the book is successful, But well worth it since it has become one of the tools I use the most for a huge variety of reasons (it’s currently pinned my apps list, which is the only thing besides Qt Creator I tend to use on a daily basis) So, once again, thank you, and have a fantastic rest of your day! Cheers, Quaid Leckey Author: Ted Wants to Rock! (ISBN-13 978-0-473-22332-8)

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Inkscape Board - election results
by Josh Andler 25 Sep '12

25 Sep '12

Hey All, I'm happy to announce that Tavmjong Bah & Johan Engelen have been elected and have accepted their positions on the board. A few people had voted off-lists, however, it does not affect the results in the end (they actually had more votes including those). So, to Johan & Tav, congratulations and welcome aboard! :) Cheers, Josh

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New board members
by Josh Andler 24 Sep '12

24 Sep '12

Hi Bradley, We held elections last week for the two open spots on the board. The results are in and "Johan Engelen" <jbc.engelen@...31...> & "Tavmjong Bah" <tavmjong@...47...> have been elected. I'm guessing that you or Tony are the ones to make it all official, so I'm initiating the discussion to make it happen. Cheers, Josh

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