On Wed, Oct 04, 2023 at 03:02:54PM -0400, Martin Owens wrote:

Hey Everyone,

Thanks to those who were able to make today's develop meeting

Attending: Alezzacreative, Jonathan, Marc, Martin, Krlr17, Ishaan, Tav Calendar: https://inkscape.org/cals/event/1/ Next Meeting: 12th October 2023

# FOSSSDem

FOSSDem call for dev rooms. We need to decide if we're going to team up with another project, the room is mostly focused on presentation and on technical and development side. So we expect technical presentations and would need to be able to fill the room for at least half a day.

Martin asked Marc to head up organing the effort so we have a main person who can act as the driver and ask other projects.

I think a devroom would be great! Good luck organizing that and let me know if you need help.

SFC will be at FOSDEM so would love to help out with any organizing or other logisitics that might come up. Let me know if there is any travel or other bits and bobs that need help.

# Packaging

Marc has some packaging stuff to take care of for Linux; a bunch of issues to look at in the coming week.

Martin wanted to know about the backports task, Jonathan suggested to do the testing for each of the issues to make sure it's all working. One month to go before the release and is still the plan, Martin will tell vectors so they have time.

Krlr17 reports that the windows builds are not available on the website currently. Marc knows about the issue.

# Grant Prooposal

Jonathan reports back his meeting with pono about the grants funding project; he has found that we wouldn't ever be able to a hybrid system of allowing users to donate towards specific projects. But without that part of the proposal it would still be possible to attract donations for the global fund.

This is not what I communicated to Jonathan, so sorry if this wasn't communicated properly. What I mentioned is that _right now_ we are not set up to have such funding mechanisms, and I proposed a few other ways we'd be able to achieve similar goals in meantime. It is not off the table for the future, but it's a large problem (and I think somewhat detracting from the overall goals of the grants program). Focusing on promoting the paid development we've been working on will do a lot for garnering more support from both existing supporters and attract new donors.

In that vein I'm going to be offering some more of my time to help with the vectors team and will be joining their monthly call on Saturday.

# Gtk4 Migration

Tav has been doing more Gtk4 stuff, trying to deal with some filename issues. It's much more particular about conversing std string and Glib::ustring classes. It's a bit tough as it's a windows specific issue because filenames are stored on windows as UTF16 but UTF8 on linux and mac.

Tav is working on a script to make Images Gtk4 compatible.

Daniel has been progressing on small items, still working on both his Gtk4 branch and bringing things into master when they can be.

We reviewed the Gtk4 contract progress, the amount of money we're spending down and the type of work being done within the terms of the contract.

Glad to hear this is moving along well!

Martin has talked about the merge conflicts that are happening, mostly he's holding onto large feature merge requests. Other developers might be waiting for the Gtk4 work to complete before developing new things.

# Color Management System

Martin gave a talk about his CMS work, the user interface, color picking the kinds of assumptions and workflows. And how to use color seperation. Other developers were very helpful in confirming if these designs and approaches are correct.

Thanks for reading!

Best Regards, Martin Owens _______________________________________________ Inkscape Board of Directors mailing list -- inkscape-board@lists.inkscape.org To unsubscribe send an email to inkscape-board-leave@lists.inkscape.org