- Inkscape Board of Directors

Insurance?
by Jon A. Cruz 25 Mar '08

25 Mar '08

LugRadio got in touch with me with more details for April 12-13, and among them was this info on insurance: > Every exhibitor needs to send us a copy of your Certificate of Liability > Insurance certificate. We're told you need one to exhibit at an event > like this in the US. You can email us a PDF copy to this address. If you > don't have one, can't get one or don't know what one is then you should > definitely get in touch and we'll see what the fall-back position is for > you. What do people know about this? Thanks.

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[Fwd: Inkscape at LugRadio Live USA 2008]
by Ted Gould 10 Mar '08

10 Mar '08

Hey guys, So I got this e-mail, which is kinda interesting. I don't know about attending the event though. I don't think that I can attend the event. And considering I don't know that we have anyone local in SF, it would probably involve sponsoring someone to go. It seems like a good offer, but I don't believe that we can have a booth. I wanted to see what others thought. --Ted -------- Forwarded Message -------- From: LUG Radio <lugradio@...23...> Hi Ted I believe you spoke to Jono Bacon at SCALE, so I thought I'd contact you about exhibiting Inkscape at LugRadio Live USA 2008. Below is the email we have been sending to exhibitors. Please get in back in touch if you think you could make it. You may or may not be aware, the very first LugRadio Live USA in 2008 is taking place at The Metreon in San Francisco. The event will be happening on the 12th and 13th April 2008, and will provide the unique atmosphere of the UK event, but in glorious San Francisco. LugRadio Live has developed a strong reputation for providing a range of topics about free software, Open Source, digital rights, technology and more, a compelling list of speakers, exhibitors and birds of a feather sessions, and wrapping it all in a unique, fun, loose, social and inclusive event, which is often described as combining the atmosphere of a rock concert and a computer conference. At LugRadio Live USA 2008 we plan on bringing this unique atmosphere to the USA, and inviting around 30 speakers, a full cast of exhibiting projects and companies, an eclectic range of BOF sessions, and plenty of additional sessions such as our debate discussion panel, a showcase of five minute talks, tech demos, and of course a live recording of LugRadio in front of an audience. We expect around 500 - 700 attendees to the event. Anyway, to the business in hand... As mentioned, we'll be having an exhibition area where we want to have projects and companies who do cool things. In the past we've had open source projects showing off their work such as KDE, Gnome, and Ubuntu, companies who work with Linux like Neuros, and distributors like Sun, Red Hat and Novell. We were wondering whether you'd be interested in having an exhibition stand at the event this year? Exhibitor space is free; we don't charge, because LugRadio Live is a community event. The focus is on people having a great time, not in making money :-) We'd like it if your exhibition stand could be something fun and interactive, rather than just a table with leaflets and advertising. Another thing: as part of the event, we provide each attendee with a registration bag, containing some free items from different organisations. We try to keep the items in this bag as interesting as possible, and in the past this has included pens, badges, software, clothing and more. If you'd like to contribute something to the bag this year for LugRadio Live USA 2008, we'd be happy to include it. Both the goodie bag and an exhibition stand are excellent ways for you to be associated with a strongly community and Open Source focused event, and the demographic it attracts. For the bag, we will need 500 of whatever you choose to contribute, and all you need to do is ship them to us, there is no charge in addition to sending the items - we will add them to the bags ready for the event. LugRadio Live in the UK has developed a strong reputation for being 'the' community event in the UK, and we are looking to bring this to USA. We would love if you could be one of the organisations who helped make this happen. :) If you're not the right person to ask about attending, we'd be grateful if you could either pass it on to the right person for us or get back in touch to let us know who to contact. Any questions or queries, feel free to drop us an email in reply to this email, and we really hope you can be a part of the event. :) Thanks! Adam Sweet and the LugRadio Team

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SCALE and my attendance
by Joshua A. Andler 29 Jan '08

29 Jan '08

Hello board, In talking with Ted about this, it seems like it's worth bringing forth to the board. Due to some issues out of my control, I won't have available funds to attend SCALE this year. As sad as it was, I could live with not going. However, they've now offered us 4 hours of classroom time (2 sessions that are 2 hours each, one for basic usage, the other for advanced usage). We do typically have Ted, John Taber, Jon Cruz, and myself there to man the booth. But, out of all 4 of us, I am probably best qualified to teach the classes as I know inkscape extremely well from a user perspective and have used it fairly extensively for illustration, design, etc. So, I am requesting if the board would approve funding my attendance this year to teach the classes (as well as all of my regular duties there). I've estimated the cost to be $500 for the hotel+taxes & gas to get to LA & back. If this is something that other board members would agree to it would help make for a really great conference this year. -Josh

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Stepping down
by njh 24 Jan '08

24 Jan '08

Dear chaps, As much as I appreciate being on the Inkscape board of directors, now that I work for Adobe it is a conflict of interest for me to remain here. Please accept my resignation and good wishes for the future. One day I may return and I hope that you'll look after our child in the meantime. njh

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Sticker plan for SCALE
by Ted Gould 12 Jan '08

12 Jan '08

Hey guys, Okay, so here is my formal proposal. I'm thinking that we should get 2000 stickers printed. There is supposedly about 5000 people at the conference, but I doubt more than 1000 have ever come by the booth. I thought about over-printing for other events, but I think we'd rather run another contest then. We've got great artists, I think providing more opportunities is better than fewer. Looking at branders.com it looks like a 3" round sticker are about $0.15 a piece. So that means that I'm asking to spend about $300, hopefully less as the bulk rates start to kick in. I would like to have the design be a contest following on the heels of the amazingly successful 0.46 about screen contest. The requirements for the contest being that the Inkscape logo must be visible and it must have the text "http://inkscape.org" or "www.inkscape.org" in it somewhere. I've suggested it to Josh, but I haven't formally asked him to run it -- he seemed okay with doing it last I asked. At the conference I'm thinking that we should "charge" a $0.25 donation for the stickers. Basically putting a roll of stickers and a bowl of quarters on the table. I'll get a couple of rolls of quarters to make change. In theory, we could make some money on the whole thing, but the goal is more to add value to the stickers so they don't just end up everywhere. I'll of course post exact dollar amounts as they become available. Both for the costs and donations that we take in. All in favor? --Ted

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Stickers for SCALE
by Ted Gould 28 Sep '07

28 Sep '07

Hey guys, I submitted the application for us to have a booth at SCALE again this year. I was thinking that perhaps we'd have a give away like stickers, something that says "Inkscape" on it. I figured we could do the design via contest. Anyway, that's really background, what I want to ask is how the stickers should (if they were approved by the board) be distributed: -- Give aways -- Sell for a $1 donation I'm kinda thinking give aways, but it seems like a case where we could make some money and not spend money on people who really don't care, they just want something for free. Thoughts? Ideas? --Ted

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Long term logo, name, identity discussion
by Ted Gould 24 Jul '07

24 Jul '07

So, I think this whole thing has brought up issues with all these topics. Probably stuff that we should start resolving. I think the first thing that we need to determine is who owns them now. The name, I'm pretty sure that's Mental's. The logo, I think there is probably a few people owning Copyright there. I remember coming into IRC and Mental showing me the logo, but I don't really know what went on before that. Also, with the latest revamp of the logo, who did that? Was it Andy? Let's get this first. What does everyone else think? Also, I hope that I didn't offend anyone by suggesting it was okay to use the logo when I don't have any claims of copyright of the work. I didn't mean to -- I'm just excited about the idea of having a printed Inkscape work (in English -- the French one was cool at LGM, but not useful to me) --Ted

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Vote: Inkscape logo useage on Tav's tutorial
by Ted Gould 19 Jul '07

19 Jul '07

Hey guys, I'm guessing you probably already saw my e-mail to -devel, but I wanted to have something here a little more officially in the record. All those in favor of allowing Tavmjong Bah to use the Inkscape logo in the book he is publishing with Prentice Hall please say "Aye". Me: "Aye" --Ted

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Board things
by Ted Gould 23 Apr '07

23 Apr '07

Okay, Now that we've got some legal structure set up I'm curious if we shouldn't start looking at things we can/can't/should/shoudn't do. Here's some ideas floating through my head, I'd love to know everyone's opinion on them: - Domain name, should we transfer this to be in the group's name? Can we do it? Does SFC have a process for this? - Trademarks, etc. on the Inkscape name/logo, "Draw Freely" and other such stuff. Do we think this is worthwhile? Can the SFC lawyers help us with this or do we need to find an outside firm? - If we do the above, do we need to draft a little "fair use" document kinda like the one that Linus has for Linux(tm) (used without permission)? - Swag. I don't know how Mental feels about it, but should we look at using his, or making another, Cafepress site that marks up the goods slightly to put monies into our coffers. It seems that people would rather buy something marked up than donate (or at least that's the only logic I can find to all the return address labels I get). Okay, that's my dump. Thoughts? Ideas? --Ted

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Re: [Inkscape-board] board mailing list
by Ted Gould 08 Apr '07

08 Apr '07

On Fri, 2007-04-06 at 15:31 -0700, Bryce Harrington wrote: > Done. I also took the liberty of signing everyone up, I hope that's > cool with everyone. NOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!! :) Okay, I'm all better now. Is everyone here? --Ted

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