Re: [Inkscape-board] Pre-approving projects for funding

On Tue, Oct 14, 2014 at 09:46:55PM -0700, Bryce Harrington wrote: > So far we have: > > On-canvas tool controls (I added this) > Boolean operations and stroking > SVG 2 > SAX parser > Extension system improvements > Box blur > > Anyone else want to propose any of the other things listed on > http://wiki.inkscape.org/wiki/index.php/Projects ? > > If not, we'll vote on this list. Ok, it's been a couple weeks, so let's vote. For this, let's everyone have two votes. You can cast +1 for two different items, or +2 once for one item. The top two will become pre-approved. A few things I would suggest to keep in mind: 0. Just because it's pre-approved doesn't necessarily mean it will be funded. It just makes it available as an idea someone could fund via a separate fundraiser. We're just priming the pump here. 1. The first funded project will be serving as a proof of concept, so we something that's going to successful. So, pick things that are well-defined, smaller in scope, and uncontroversial design-wise. 2. To avoid any possibility for conflict of interests, I think no board members should apply for pre-approved projects. So if there's something in the list you may want to work on, don't vote for it. 3. For the top two projects, we're still going to need to flesh out the project definition, acceptance criteria, etc. So we'll need volunteers to write that up, before we can publicize it.