- Inkscape Board of Directors

Re: [Inkscape-board] Update of Committee & other matters for Conservancy/Inkscape discussion
by Bryce Harrington 31 Jan '13

31 Jan '13

On Tue, Nov 27, 2012 at 09:16:35AM -0500, Bradley M. Kuhn wrote: > Bryce Harrington wrote on Wednesday, 14 November: > > 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'd suggest that we do the following: since the 10%-back-to-Conservancy > is probably the biggest change, go ahead and finish the vote on that. A majority of board has voted in favor of this 10%. See inkscape-board@ list archives for details on the voting. > Once that's done, let's work together on the Representation section. > Once that's drafted, Tony and I can send around a final draft of the > template that's adapted specifically for Inkscape, and then you can vote > on that as a whole. > > I do encourage everyone on the Inkscape Committee to read the entire > document in detail and ask any questions you have. It's a formal > agreement with lots of details and Conservancy wants to be sure that > everyone in Inkscape's leadership is comfortable with the new FSA before > we sign it. > -- > Bradley M. Kuhn, Executive Director, Software Freedom Conservancy

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new fundraising opportunity: using Amazon Affiliate links
by Bryce Harrington 31 Jan '13

31 Jan '13

Forwarding from SFC in case anyone thinks this looks interesting. (I'm guessing it wouldn't generate enough revenue for us to be worth the trouble, but I certainly could be wrong.) Bryce ----- Forwarded message from Tony Sebro <tony@...41...> ----- Date: Thu, 01 Nov 2012 12:01:39 -0400 From: Tony Sebro <tony@...41...> To: project-reps@...41... CC: amazon@...41... Subject: new fundraising opportunity: using Amazon Affiliate links Hi, all: Conservancy has created an Amazon Associates account we can use to create Amazon Affiliate links for Projects to use. Projects can place affiliate links on their websites to point to project-related/mission-related books available for purchase on Amazon. When visitors use those links to visit Amazon.com and make purchases, Amazon sends a royalty back, thereby creating another fundraising revenue stream for the Projects. For more information about the Amazon Associates program, visit http://affiliate-program.amazon.com. If your project is interested in creating an affiliate link for one or more books, please send the following information to <amazon@...41...>: * URL for each book for sale on Amazon.com * URL(s) for the project web page(s) that will feature the affiliate link(s) We'll then send you the Amazon-generated HTML needed to create the link. RULES: * The books have to be project- or mission-related. In other words, you can't link to /The Hunger Games/ just to generate traffic and raise money. * Linking to non-book items is more complicated. If you want to link to a non-book item that you feel is mission-related, let Conservancy know; we'll then determine whether we can create a link that complies with Amazon's terms and conditions and IRS guidelines. * Lastly (IMPORTANT): _Project pages cannot host affiliate links created with third-party or personal Amazon accounts_. The IRS forbids the use of Project resources for personal fundraising. So, if there are any legacy affiliate links of this nature anywhere on your Project's websites (or wikis, or fora, for that matter), please remove them. The only affiliate links on Project websites should be ones created by Conservancy's affiliate account. If you have any questions about the process, please direct them to <amazon@...41...>, and Bradley or I will get back to you. Thanks! -Tony -- Tony Sebro, General Counsel, Software Freedom Conservancy +1-212-461-3245 x11 tony@...41... www.sfconservancy.org ----- End forwarded message -----

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Re: [Inkscape-board] (c) license request from Pearson Education re: Inkscape screen shoots; (c) license for website/wiki content
by Bryce Harrington 31 Jan '13

31 Jan '13

It's probably fine, but forwarding to the board for discussion. On Tue, Jan 08, 2013 at 05:55:44PM -0500, Tony Sebro wrote: > Hello, all. > > FYI, I received the attached request from Pearson; they want to > create derivative works using the screen shoots below. From > Conservancy's perspective, we're fine with granting such requests. > If Inkscape strenuously objects, let's discuss. > > On a related point: while Inkscape itself is released under GPLv2, > the website doesn't make it clear whether the copyrighted content on > the website/wiki itself is freely licensed. Absent any notice, > third parties like Pearson will (rightly) treat all content, > including screen shots, as "all rights reserved." If there *is* a > license notice, and I missed it, please point it out to me. If not: > have you thought about how you'd like to license the content and > documentation? Let me know how you'd like to proceed. > > Thanks! Best, -Tony There is a GPL-2 COPYING file in the website SVN tree, inkscape_web. Bryce > -------- Original Message -------- > Subject: Request for Permission - Pearson Education Asia Ltd > (Longman Secondary ICT) - Inkscape > Date: Thu, 3 Jan 2013 10:11:03 +0800 > From: Lai, Leslie <Leslie.Lai@...53...> > To: Tony Sebro <tony@...41...> > CC: Tang, Regina <Regina.Tang@...53...> > > > > Dear Tony, > > *Request for Permission -- Pearson Education Asia Ltd (Longman > Secondary ICT) -- Inkscape* > > We are writing to request your formal permission to reproduce > someimages owned/represented by Inkscape("the Content") in a > forthcoming project at present entitled: Longman Secondary ICT ("the > Project"). > > Inkscape warrant that you have full title guarantee in the copyright > for all Content that you supply to us for use(except the artwork > which is created by Pearson Education Asia Ltd), or are the > authorised agent of the owner of such copyright and you hereby grant > the following rights for Pearson Education Asia Ltd to use the > Content listed on the attached Schedule, namely: > > *Project Title*:****Longman Secondary ICT* > > *Rights:*The non-exclusive right to publish the Content in the > Project in print, electronic and any other form including but not > limited to the following formats: print, eBook, videocassette, DVD, > CD-ROM, online, interactive whiteboards and interactive software and > hardware (including Virtual Learning Environments) and educational > applications on mobile and handheld devices and in all associated > marketing, promotional and learning materials. > > Additionally the rights shall include but not be limited to the > right to publish the Content in derivatives of the Project. For > purposes of this Agreement, derivatives shall be defined as but not > limited to adaptations, abridgements, versions, custom versions, > brief editions, split editions and foreign market editions whether > published in whole or in part by Pearson Education Asia Ltd or any > associated company. > > *Print run:****Unlimited * > > ** > > *Territory:****World * > > ** > > *Languages: ****All * > > ** > > *Term:****All editions* > > ** > > *Editions:****All editions * > > ** > > * The title of the Project may be changed. > > Should you need any further information, please feel free to contact me. > > Thank you very much for your kind consideration and we look forward > to hearing from your reply. > > Best regards, > > Leslie > > *Leslie Lai* > > Assistant Publishing Support Manager > > Content and Project Management > > Pearson Education Asia Ltd. > > 6th Floor, Cornwall House > > Taikoo Place, 979 King's Road > > Quarry Bay, Hong Kong > > D: +852 3181 0427 <tel:%2B852%C2%A03181%200427> > > F: +852 2563 1611 <tel:%2B852%202563%201611> > > ** > > *Pearson * > > Always Learning > > Learn more at www.pearson.com <http://www.pearson.com/> > > > *CONTENT SCHEDULE* > > ** > > *Images**from Inkscape to be reproduced in:* > > ** > > *Project Title: Longman Secondary ICT* > > ** > > *Components: Student's book, workbook, teacher's resources, > multimedia components* > > ** > > *Source / Ref. Number* > > > > *Description* > > > > *Page / Position in final product* > > http://inkscape.org/ > > > > Screencapturesof Inkscape (2 screens) > > (The artwork is created by Pearson Education Asia Ltd) > > ChapB02E_Act01_Step03_02_Text01_001 > > ChapB02E_Act01_Step08_Decorated01b_002 > > > > Inside page > > http://inkscape.org/ > > > > Toolbar icons of Inkscape (3 icons) > > - brush > > - text edit > > Chap02_Activity01_Step05_SelectTool_002- arrow > > > > Inside page > > http://inkscape.org/ > > > > Calligraphy tool of Inkscape > > ChapB02E_Act01_Step04_03_Drawing01c_001 > > > > Inside page > > http://inkscape.org/ > > > > Pull-down menu of Inkscape (3 icons) > > ChapB02E_Act01_Step05_02_PutTextOnPath01_001 > > > > Inside page >

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Proposal: travel subsidy for SCALE 11x
by Jon Cruz 29 Jan '13

29 Jan '13

Hi Guys, I was wondering if would want to offer a travel subsidy to help get a few people to our booth at SCALE 11x? We have a booth allocation, and 10 conference passes that go with it. At the moment I have just two bodies committed (myself, and a talented assistant in my now college student daughter), so more can be helpful. I live near enough so I just drive on in. Rooms at the hotel are listed for $112 a night, and a quick spot-check on flights from the East Coast are in the $300-$400 range. Those might be a good benchmark for the upper range on a normal expectation of how far SCALE attendees might come. Sometimes even partial assistance can help get people there who otherwise might be on the fence. As a follow-up item, might we want to try coordinating for any other shows during the year? I know we'd mentioned a few somewhere just about a year ago, so this seems like a good time to consider/plan.

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Re: [Inkscape-board] Update Re: Inkscape trademark issue
by Ted Gould 29 Jan '13

29 Jan '13

Great! Thank you very much Tony! Ted On Mon, 2013-01-28 at 18:23 -0500, Tony Sebro wrote: > Hello, all: > As an update, the owner of the @InkscapeApp Twitter account posted their > intent on Twitter to cease using the account and rebrand their product > before they launched. The Twitter account has since been terminated, > but I kept a screen shot (attached). > > I emailed Kyle Banks (the registrant for the Inksca.pe and Inkscape.co > domains) to identify myself as the point of contact, acknowledge the > termination of the @InkscapeApp Twitter account, and ask him to cease > and desist use of the Inkscape mark in any other capacity. Mr. Banks > replied, acknowledged our ownership of the mark, and said that he would > take down the Inkscape.co and Inksca.pe domain names and rebrand his > product. As of the sending of this email, the domains no longer point > to an active page. > > I'll keep an eye on the Inksca.pe and Inkscape.co domains, but if Mr. > Banks stays true to to his word, then I think the matter can be > considered resolved. > > Best, > -Tony >

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Inkscape trademark issue
by Josh Andler 27 Jan '13

27 Jan '13

Hi board, Bradley, and Tony, suv informed me of the existence of another "inkscape". I was originally just going to email them, but my guess is that a more formal communication is really the appropriate way to handle it. http://inkscape.co which forwards to http://inksca.pe/ Luckily their contact info is available via whois. http://www.networksolutions.com/whois/results.jsp?domain=inkscape.co It is for software, which kind of makes it that much worse. https://twitter.com/InkscapeApp Cheers, Josh

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Proposal: Submit releases to Ubuntu My Apps
by Ted Gould 12 Dec '12

12 Dec '12

Howdy folks, First off, disclosure: I work at Canonical on Ubuntu, but not in the applications group. I guess I could be bias. For those that aren't aware Ubuntu has introduced a new way to submit applications that appear in the Ubuntu Software Center[1]. It basically allows developers to submit their applications to a repository that exists outside the standard main/universe paradigm in a place called "extras." The applications that exist in this repository can be paid, free or Free Software, but the key difference is that they version is controlled by the uploader and not the Ubuntu core repository process. This means that we could, potentially, put Inkscape 0.49 in the software center for users that are on Ubuntu 12.04 LTS -- which would be nearly impossible in the main archives. I think that this is a win for our users who many of which are surely staying on the LTS release. But it is a change and slightly different legal relationship we'd be entering into with Canonical[2] to distribute the app. PROPOSAL 1: Inkscape should enter into the agreement with Canonical and submit future releases of Inkscape to the extras repository, pending review of the TOS from the Conservancy. At the same time, the My Apps interface allows us to distribute applications that have a fee associated with them. While it's really designed for selling proprietary software, it seems like we could also have an application that was "Inkscape (Donation Edition)" that cost something like $5 that users who wanted to could choose to install. I was thinking that this edition could have a special about screen or perhaps some filters or palettes -- some sort of Thank You. We could keep that in version control, just not distribute it with the main tarball/executable bundles we ship. I think the price and the Thank You should be discussed further, but in general I'm trying to say: PROPOSAL 2: Inkscape should release a donation edition of Inkscape to Ubuntu extras at a price set by the board. What are people's thoughts on all of this? Yea, nay? I'm not sure it would end up being a large donation stream, but I do think it's worth trying. There will probably be some people upset at us trying to "commercialize" Inkscape, but I don't think that's really the case here and I'm willing to have that conversation. --Ted [1] http://developer.ubuntu.com/publish/ [2] https://myapps.developer.ubuntu.com/dev/tos/

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[REFERENDUM] 10% of earmarked revenue to support Conservancy
by Bryce Harrington 05 Dec '12

05 Dec '12

A majority vote of the current board members is required for this matter. Proposed: 10% of Inkscape's earmarked revenue is to be paid to the Software Freedom Conservancy. This will help them continue to provide services to open source projects. [ ] a. Yes, allow the 10% payment to the Conservancy [ ] b. No, keep arrangements as is Background: The proposal is from Bradley M. Kuhn, Executive Director of the Conservancy, who wrote to us on this list a couple weeks ago: (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. Bryce

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Re: [Inkscape-board] Paying a stipend to mentors from GSoC 2012?
by Tavmjong Bah 04 Dec '12

04 Dec '12

On Fri, 2012-11-30 at 16:01 -0500, Bradley M. Kuhn wrote: > Bryce Harrington wrote at 17:03 (EST) on Thursday: > > One other question that came up was if this income would include > > "pass-through" funds, such as situations we've had in the past where > > Google or some other organization sponsored travel or funded work by a > > developer by donating it to Inkscape via the Conservancy, and then the > > developer was paid via Inkscape. Would the rule cover this type of > > income as well? > > The two examples you give are generally handled differently. For true > reimbursement of expenses (e.g., Google gives us the exact amount of a > flight, as part of a program that reimburses only travel costs), > Conservancy has generally not taken 10% of that. From an accounting > perspective, "income" and "reimbursement of expenses" are accrued > differently. > > For anything that's actual income, like a donation from Google, or > anyone else, that's income to Conservancy. The IRS sees it that way > fully. Conservancy does have an agreement with the Inkscape developers > to say that we'll keep that money in the Inkscape Fund and spend on > stuff that (a) advances Inkscape, (b) is approved by the Inkscape > Committee, and (c) is fitting with Conservancy's IRS charitable mission. > > What Conservancy now does for all new projects, (and most of our > founding ones too, who have converted), is that 10% of any of that > Income goes into Conservancy's general fund, and the rest goes into the > Project Fund. With this clarification that "income" and "reimbursement of expenses" are treated differently and that "reimbursement of expenses" is not included in the 10%, I vote yes to change our agreement with SFC to give them 10% of our earmarked revenues. Tav

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Re: [Inkscape-board] Paying a stipend to mentors from GSoC 2012?
by Ted Gould 02 Dec '12

02 Dec '12

On Fri, 2012-11-30 at 16:01 -0500, Bradley M. Kuhn wrote: > Thus, I'd like to discuss with you about what the objections are in > detail. Is Inkscape in some way unhappy with Conservancy's services? I'll throw in my opinion, and I'm guessing that of others. We do think that the Conservancy's work is valuable and has definitely been helpful in maintaining Inkscape. I don't know of any issues that we have. I think the resistance here is natural from the "we didn't think about paying for it" perspective. It's always to go from something you got for free to something you're paying for, it immediately creates the reaction of "how much is this worth?" which people haven't thought about. Personally, I think that 10% is reasonable considering all the Conservancy does do. I'm not sure that we "use" $600/year worth of services, but I do think that's a reasonable way for the Conservancy to charge member projects (fair to all), and if we were more active on the business front (our fault, not yours) we definitely would. I also like the flat percentage than trying to figure out a more complex scheme. So in general, I don't feel their is objection per se, as much as we haven't thought about the Conservancy as something we've had to pay for. I don't think it's unreasonable that we would, but we need to change our perceptions. --Ted

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