Inkscape Leadership Committee Meeting (9th September 2021)
Thanks everyone for comming to this month's meeting, you can find the video recording here:
https://digimedia1.r2.enst.fr/playback/presentation/2.3/80b082be7c60e7a1fd9b...
Next meeting: https://inkscape.org/cals/event/30/ October 14th 2021
Below are the notes and tasks that we have decided or are deliberating. To keep things organised, if you'd like to reply to this message, please remove the item that you're not talking about from the reply text and change the subject line.
Item 1: Contributor Tshirt [00:01:30] -------------------------------------
Notes:
* These are shirts offered to all 2021 contributors * They will NOT be made for sale in spreadshirt or anywhere else * The design will focus on 2021 and not the release (1.1 or 1.2)
Tasks / Planning:
1. Chris Rogers will design the shirts [current task] 2. Martin Owens will contact active contributors with the design and collect who wants one and their shape/sizes and shipping details. 3. Ryan Gorley will take the counts and basic shipping information (countries) and make a cost estimate. 4. Martin Owens will bring the price estimate back to the leadership committee for a vote. 5. If successfully funded, Ryan will submit the orders to the supplier who will ship directly to contributors.
Item 2: Mechanisms for Membership [00:18:02] --------------------------------------------
Policy discussion:
* Peer Aproval, major consensus for this over multiple meetings. * Number of peers required, 3, 1 inviter and 2 other peers to aprove. * Invite only, apply via asking in chat/mailing list * No limits on number of people we can approve. * One-time approval, can not be revoked. * Cascade protection: Grace period before peer approval of 3 months * No grace period for any other privilages. * Removal via the PLC; Majority vote.
Technical Implmentation/Tasks
1. Martin Owens will submit this discusson to the leadership committee for sanity checking [current task] 2. After two weeks for discussion, baring any major problems the website will be modified in the following ways: a. Add Invitation-Peer Aproval model to teams b. Add optional grace period field for peer-aproval calculation c. Add file based logging of all activity, (add, removal, anything) d. Add git repository backend to push logs to gitlab for verification. 3. The website functionality will be deployed to test.inkscape.org for review to make sure it's correct. 4. The functionality and policy package will be brought before the PLC for a vote to adopt the system and policies (maybe two seperate votes) 5. If approved, The system will be deployed to inkscape.org and gitlab.com and membership will be open to peers.
Thanks to everyone who's taken part in this discussion. It's been a long one, but I'm excited to move this forwards and get our membership model fighting fit.
Best Regards, Martin Owens Inkscape Leadership Committee