Hackfest and LGM Impressions
Hi,
I just want to let the board know a bit about the hackfest and LGM. I assume that you've read the posts on Google+ and seen all the activity on IRC and in Bazaar.
I think this year's hackfest was very successful. We got a lot of hacking done including fixing the GTK3 flashing bug and getting a lot closer to being able to switch to CMake. This hackfest had a different tone than last year's. We spent a lot more time coding and a lot less time discussing (only an hour or two). I think we did need to spend a lot of time last year on discussions as that was the first time we really sat down together. Our monthly board meetings have probably also reduced the need to spend a lot of time on discussions.
I also think the LGM meeting was more useful this year than last year, not because the talks were better (perhaps they were a bit on average) but because we were able to both continue working on the code and spend a lot of time discussing with others issues that effect Inkscape. We had a good meeting with some designers who use Inkscape everyday and have started an Inkscape interface group which should come in handy as we rework the GTK3 dialogs. I met with people concerning better library support in HarfBuzz for accessing OpenType features which would allow a better interface to font features. Martin talked to the Gimp people about their plans for GTK3. Tom Lechner gave a nice talk demoing some interesting ways of interfacing with text which might be of interest to us. (He also gave a workshop on his very interesting engraving tool.)
I would recommend we start thinking about another hackfest, either in the Fall or Spring. LGM will be in Rio de Janeiro in late April or early May. While I would love to visit Rio, I'm not sure we would get a large enough turnout for a hackfest there (hotel/food would be cheap but flights expensive). Martin has suggested a hackfest in Boston. That might be a good location as it's not so far from both Europe and the US west coast. LGM 2018 will most likely be in Europe, possibly Milan.
Tav
On Mon, Apr 18, 2016 at 12:19 PM, Tavmjong Bah <tavmjong@...47...> wrote:
I would recommend we start thinking about another hackfest, either in the Fall or Spring. LGM will be in Rio de Janeiro in late April or early May. While I would love to visit Rio, I'm not sure we would get a large enough turnout for a hackfest there (hotel/food would be cheap but flights expensive). Martin has suggested a hackfest in Boston. That might be a good location as it's not so far from both Europe and the US west coast. LGM 2018 will most likely be in Europe, possibly Milan.
As I had previously mentioned I'd be more than happy to see about us hosting something at SCALE, which will take place during March in Pasadena for the next couple years. We have a lot of space at the Pasadena Convention Center. I'm just throwing it out there as another possibility, I would just have to bring it up to the other chairs to find out what we would be able to offer. I would personally love to see us have some standing thing go on there since Jon Cruz and myself effectively come for "free" at that point, and it would be good to have a regular event. :)
WRT Rio, I would be inclined to ask Felipe Sanches about if he thinks it could be worthwhile. We have a large userbase in Brazil (presumably some of which can hack), Felipe loves hacking events and might have people he could encourage to join, etc. So, if we're not flat out writing off Rio, I will ping him to get his thoughts.
Cheers, Josh
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