The Inkscape Board is establishing a committee to investigate establishing a new forum for the Inkscape user base.
== Background ==
An issue was raised to the board level last month about the current Inkscape Forum (inkscapeforum.com) being overrun with spam, and users report trouble contacting the forum's administrator. This site is operated by a third party, separate from the Inkscape project proper, but has generally been considered the most "official" forum for the community. Over the past month the board endeavored to contact the owner of the site to discuss the issues and either solve the issue, take over operation of the site, or get a database dump of its content. Unfortunately, no contact has been made so far.
There are other third party Inkscape forums out there, which the Board gave some consideration to investigating as a possible alternative. But relying on any third party site risks the same problem happening again.
The Board is opting to investigate establishing a new forum, that would be managed as part of the Inkscape project. Since this is a bit out of scope for the Board itself, we're establishing a forum exploratory committee to do the investigation.
== Inkscape Forum Exploratory Committee ==
The Board is establishing this committee under Brynn's leadership. She is actively involved in both the Inkscape project and the forums, and has been maintaining one of the aforementioned alternate forums as well. She will recruit the members and chair the committee and work on gathering answers to questions in several categories:
1. Software. What forum s/w should be used? Where should it be installed? How is spam going to be prevented? What should its design look like? What level of integration with inkscape.org should be attempted? Etc.
2. Content. Can we / should we migrate some / all of the existing forum posts? If so, how?
3. Administrative Policies. How are the administrators administrated? What are their responsibilities? Should the forums use Inkscape's Code of Conduct or maintain their own rules? How are forum user accounts handled? What is the path for escalation of issues?
4. Community. Migration and building up a healthy community. Outreach efforts.
And I'm sure there's plenty more questions I haven't even thought of!
Finally - thanks Brynn for taking on this job!
Bryce
On Wed, Jun 01, 2016 at 02:23:40PM -0700, Bryce Harrington wrote:
Reminder that our June board meeting will be this Friday in #inkscape-devel at noon Pacific time.
http://wiki.inkscape.org/wiki/index.php/Board_MeetingsAgenda is above. There were a lot of action items out of the May meeting, so please doublecheck on your tasks and come ready to report.
There will be an informal 0.92 release meeting after the board meeting (1pm US pacific time). Potential topics include a run through of release critical bugs, the about screen contest, translation work, platform packages of the release candidate, etc.
Thanks, Bryce
On Sun, May 08, 2016 at 01:22:35PM -0700, Bryce Harrington wrote:
On Tue, May 03, 2016 at 12:34:18PM -0700, Bryce Harrington wrote:
May's meeting is coming up. It'll be in #inkscape-devel at noon Pacific time (2000 UTC).
http://wiki.inkscape.org/wiki/index.php/Board_MeetingsThis will be a good opportunity to debrief from the hackfest and identify followup actions that the board should work on in coming months.
Bryce
Thanks everyone for attending, that ended up being an impressively productive meeting. I've gone through the meeting log and pulled out action items:
http://wiki.inkscape.org/wiki/index.php/Board_Meetings
I've penciled in Friday, June 3rd as our next meeting, and jotted in an agenda to followup on a number of the items we touched on this week.
Bryce
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