Hey everyone,
This is a digest of the meeting we had. You can still have a look at the original text in chat but this is for folks who need a quick run down.
Event: https://inkscape.org/cals/event/46/ (don't forget you can subscribe to the ical link in your calendar) Attending: Martin, pono, Marc, René, Tav, Josh, Jonathan
AGENDA
* Developer meeting update (doctormo) * Vectors update (Moini) * Student programs; Outreachy, GSoC, etc (Tav) * Security Key Program (Mc) * Infrastructure update (martin) * Current Votes Status (no votes pending)
ANY OTHER BUSINESS
* Idea for licensing Inkscape on platforms (ted/martin) * Physical meeting for 2026 (jonathan) * AI Policy (René) * Project Management
DEVELOPER MEETING
The developer meetings are still happening, and regular minutes are sent to the plc. No questions asked for the developer team
VECTORS UPDATE
Moini wasn't available today, no update.
STUDENT PROGRAMS
No student programs at the moment. GSoC 2026 deadline coming up. February 3 deadline for GSoC.
Tav is going to step back from GSoC this year. We have an open position/prospect for GSoC. If we don't find someone to run it, we'll skip this year.
Jonathan might have enough time during the GSoC coding period, so they'll think about it.
Martin asked Tav to do a hand off to a new person, pono recommended recording the details in a document.
René wants to check is infrastructure tasks count as coding for GSoC.
SECURITY KEY PROGRAM
Martin asks to drop this from the agenda. Marc wants to find a way to enforce 2FA for infrastructue. Martin uses FreeOTP, so we can recommend different options. Mc says perhaps we can just have a policy: "if you have <some access to be defined> then you can be rimbursed for <up to some amount> of a security hardware key buy"
Agenda item moved to developer team meeting.
INFRASTRUCTURE UPDATE
Martin has a meeting with Ben coming up to discuss the second part of the website upgrades. Taking credit cards, improving speed, etc etc. A vote will be posted directly to the mailing list when the general outline is ready.
No change for the matrix chat replacement. Rocket chat went down for half a day or so, Mc got it running again.
No issues that I know of with GitLab, or the CI runners.
LICENSING INKSCAPE
Has been discussed in our dev meeting a little, and is something to idea-taste. Martin and ted had a discussion after the meeting with the Audacity owners about how Inkscape can leverage the trademark to create an opportunity for a commercial venture to license exclusive rights to publish Inkscape, for money, in one of the various app stores where our support is weakest. The agreement would basically be: commercial venture agrees to do engineering and support that platform's app store, kicks back a percentage of revenue to the SFC and we give them exclusivity in that app-store. The example raised for the Windows App Store, where we suffer from not being able to attract windows developers and in this case it would be the case that we would still offer windows builds from our website, but the commercial venture would offer Inkscape in the App Store there. Trying to balance access and getting resources into the project.
Ponoi likes the idea and will bring it up with the SFC interally (Rick and Karen) on the 23rd Jan, Martin will remind him to do so.
Some discussion was had about some of the considerations and pitfalls.
PHYSICAL MEETUP 2026
Two possible meetup locations; FOSDEM January 31/Feb 1, LGM (April 22- 25, Nuremberg)
Possibly copying the program from last years meetup at the castle. Depending on if we can book again.
Need to find people to help organise. Martin recommends asking for help by sending an email to mailing lists etc.
AI POLICY
Agenda item defered to the developer team meeting, the plc doesn't have anything to decide here as it's a technical question. But it should be answered before the GSoC kicks off (if it does).
PROJECT MANAGEMENT
René has someone who might be interested in doing volunteer project management. Too early to tell. No details on what this involves. Martin points to Krlr17 who was contracted to help with the bug accelerator program as an admin type work.
END MEETING
Thanks everyone for coming and staying late. Hope everyone had a good New Year and is ready for a great 2026.