- Inkscape Board of Directors

Re: [Inkscape-board] Update of Committee & other matters for Conservancy/Inkscape discussion
by Josh Andler 22 Feb '13

22 Feb '13

Bradley, Jon Cruz & I are the only ones who will be at SCaLE afaik. Jon will only be here for the Expo to the best of my knowledge. Cheers, Josh On Fri, Feb 22, 2013 at 8:13 AM, Bradley M. Kuhn <bkuhn@...41...>wrote: > Sorry for my late reply on this: > > >> 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? > > On Tue, Nov 27, 2012 at 09:16:35AM -0500, Bradley M. Kuhn wrote: > >> 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. > > Bryce Harrington wrote on 30 January: > > A majority of board has voted in favor of this 10%. > > Thanks so much. It means a great deal to Conservancy that you are > willing to do this and we much appreciate it. > > >> Once that's done, let's work together on the Representation section. > > We should probably begin work on this as soon as you all are ready. > Will Inkscape folks be at SCALE this weekend to discuss? > > -- > Bradley M. Kuhn, Executive Director, Software Freedom Conservancy >

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Re: [Inkscape-board] Fwd: SourceForge New Revenue Share Pilot Program
by Josh Andler 12 Feb '13

12 Feb '13

On Tue, Feb 12, 2013 at 5:19 AM, Bradley M. Kuhn <bkuhn@...41...>wrote: > Josh Andler wrote at 20:22 (EST) on Sunday: > > Additionally, I have no idea if anyone here knows Roberto and might be > > a better person to talk with him. > > Just to give you some backstory: Roberto has been very aggressive in his > inquiries with Conservancy in trying to get Conservancy projects to use > Sourceforge's advertising-based download system. Inkscape is of > particular interest to him in part because you all used to use it and > don't now. > I had a feeling that this might be the case which is why I put that language in. I also figured there was a good chance that you were probably already aware of what he was talking about. Personally, at this point I feel that it's not worth having a conversation with him solely based on us not having our house in order in terms of updating our FSA. In addition to that, a larger board conversation should probably take place in light of the information you provided. When I'm done with the stuff I'm doing for SCaLE. I will just tell him something to the effect of: It's not a good time for us to have a conversation related to this right now but we will keep it in mind if he'd still be interested down the road. Cheers, Josh

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Fwd: SourceForge New Revenue Share Pilot Program
by Josh Andler 11 Feb '13

11 Feb '13

Hello Bradley and Board, I received the following email from SourceForge and obviously think it's worth finding out more. However, I'm not confident that I will ask all of the important Q's we need to have answers for. Additionally, I have no idea if anyone here knows Roberto and might be a better person to talk with him. So, if anyone else would like to be the person to talk to him or otherwise has good questions to ask, please let me know. Otherwise I plan to respond on Tuesday to set something up. Cheers, Josh ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: "Roberto Galoppini" <rgaloppini@...55...> Date: Feb 10, 2013 12:31 AM Subject: SourceForge New Revenue Share Pilot Program To: "Roberto Galoppini" <rgaloppini@...55...> Dear Admins, I'm Roberto Galoppini, Senior Director of Business Development at SourceForge, and I have some interesting news to share with you. Since 1999 SourceForge has been committed to advancing the open source software community. We host over 300,000 projects and are visited by over 40 MM users per month for free, secure, and fast downloads of open source software. As a trusted partner of the OSS community for over 10 years, the SourceForge team designed an innovative revenue share program to give something back. The Accelerator program rewards high quality OSS project teams for doing great work and serves to accelerate the broader adoption through a global catalog. We want to start investing back in trusted partners like Inkscape and would like to talk to you about some new revenue sharing posibilities for your project. Are you open for a call later next week? Look forward to hear back from you, best regards. -- Roberto Galoppini Senior Director of Business Development, SourceForge phone: +393921256600 email: rgaloppini@...55... skype: r.galoppini This e- mail message is intended only for the named recipient(s) above. It may contain confidential and privileged information. If you are not the intended recipient you are hereby notified that any dissemination, distribution or copying of this e-mail and any attachment(s) is strictly prohibited. If you have received this e-mail in error, please immediately notify the sender by replying to this e-mail and delete the message and any attachment(s) from your system. Thank you. -- ==== This e- mail message is intended only for the named recipient(s) above. It may contain confidential and privileged information. If you are not the intended recipient you are hereby notified that any dissemination, distribution or copying of this e-mail and any attachment(s) is strictly prohibited. If you have received this e-mail in error, please immediately notify the sender by replying to this e-mail and delete the message and any attachment(s) from your system. Thank you.

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Board IRC meeting
by Johan Engelen 06 Feb '13

06 Feb '13

Hi all, Let's do a board meeting? I think a weekend works best because of timezones? The next two weekends I'm on vacation but the one after (23rd Feb) would be ok. for me, two points to discuss: - travel subsidy - merchandise Cheers, Johan

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[tony@...41...: Conservancy-wide discussion re: project merch]
by Bryce Harrington 31 Jan '13

31 Jan '13

In case anyone's interested in pursuing this... ----- Forwarded message from Tony Sebro <tony@...41...> ----- Date: Fri, 18 Jan 2013 15:40:31 -0500 From: Tony Sebro <tony@...41...> To: project-reps@...41... Subject: Conservancy-wide discussion re: project merch Hi, all: Several member projects have expressed interest in designing and selling "official" project merchandise (t-shirts, stickers, mugs, etc.). So, we've started a mailing list that will be used for discussions relating to merch, e.g., asking questions, vendor recommendations, strategy comparisons, design feedback. If you or someone from your Project Leadership Committee would like to join the discussion, please subscribe here: http://lists.sfconservancy.org/mailman/listinfo/merch Best, -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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lgm pledgie
by Alexandre Prokoudine 31 Jan '13

31 Jan '13

Hello, board! I recently re-enabled the LGM pledgie banner on inkscape.org. The campaign is on again, and we did it each year before, so I don't really expect any controversion, but just so you know. Alexandre Prokoudine http://libregraphicsworld.org

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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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