Here is the breakdown for the voting on this issue:
Josh Andler Yes
Tavmjong Bah unknown
Ted Gould Yes
Bryce Harrington Yes
Johan Engelen Yes
Tim Cole unknown
Jon Cruz unknown
With 4 yes votes we have a majority decision.
Johan, please go ahead and proceed with step #3. Once that's done, I'll
follow up with step #4.
Bryce
Good news everyone!
The process has taken me a lot longer than I'd anticipated, but 9 of the
10 books are now mailed out. SFC says it should take about a week to
arrive for people in the US, 2 weeks for Canada, and up to 4 weeks for
Europe. I'll try to remember to follow up with everyone this time next
month to make sure everything got to where it's supposed to go.
Book #10 is having a surprising amount of trouble finding an owner. I
decided not to let it delay the other 9 further.
Bryce
----- Forwarded message from Johan Engelen
<jbc.engelen@...31...> -----
Date: Wed, 15 Jan 2014 17:59:50 +0100
From: Johan Engelen <jbc.engelen@...31...>
To: Bryce Harrington <bryce@...2...>
Subject: Re: [Inkscape-board] [REFERENDUM] Developer Education Book Campaign 2013
Hi Bruce,
I thought I had already re-voted, sorry.
I vote a. Yes
Cheers,
Johan
----- Reply message -----
From: "Bryce Harrington" <bryce@...2...>
To: "Johan Engelen" <j.b.c.engelen@...51...>
Subject: [Inkscape-board] [REFERENDUM] Developer Education Book Campaign 2013
Date: Wed, Jan 15, 2014 02:43
Btw, I need you to officially re-vote for the update so it's on record.
Bryce
On Mon, Jan 13, 2014 at 06:29:20PM +0100, Johan Engelen wrote:
> a. YES
>
> - Johan
>
>
> On 13-1-2014 9:46, Bryce Harrington wrote:
> > A majority Board vote is required for the following proposal.
> >
> >
> > Proposal:
> >
> > 1. Purchase and distribute a programming book to the top 10 Inkscape
> > contributors for the past 12 months, as calculated by
Ohloh.net:
> >
http://www.ohloh.net/p/inkscape/contributors?query=&sort=commits_12_mo
> >
> > 2. The contributors can choose from one of the following books:
> > a) Effective C++, 3rd Ed.
> > by Scott Meyers
> > b) Refactoring: Improving the Design of Existing Code
> > by Martin Fowler
> > c) A Tour of C++
> > by Bjarne Stroustrup
> >
> > 3. The campaign proposer (Johan Engelen, or their designee) will be
> > empowered to officially announce and introduce the campaign to the
> > larger community.
> >
> > 4. The board chairperson (or their designee) will be empowered to
> > i) Identify the qualified contributors as per (1), ii) Contact the
> > qualified book recipients to collect their address and choice of book
> > from (2), iii) Purchase and disseminiate the books to the provided
> > addresses, iv) Collect reimbursement from SFC for expenses incurred.
> >
> >
> > [ ] a. Yes, conduct this campaign as defined above
> > [ ] b. No, we should not conduct this campaign
> > [ ] c. Maybe, but I disagree with some definition of the campaign
> >
> >
> > Background:
> >
> > """
> > Lately, I've become obsessed with code quality. I've been reading
> > Bjourne Stroustrup's "bible" on C++11, watched all videos of the
> > "Going Native" conferences, started using clang, ..., and it has
made
> > me much more aware of the language's facilities for preventing bugs. I
> > regularly browse over Inkscape's code and try to fix things I think
> > can be improved (janitorial); our source is a pretty big mess
> > I really do think Inkscape can use some love to improve logic and to
> > decrease some amount of spaghetti.
> >
> > I just saw the book "Effective C++", which I believe is a great
resource
> > to inspire thought and learn how to write better code, and is meant for
> > experienced programmers. In general: how do you guys feel about
> > donating something [like this book] to our top committers for their
> > "education"? We would need some metric of what "top
committers" means,
> > we could use ohloh.net's numbers.
> >
> > *For example*, we have 10 people that committed more than 50 times in
> > the past 12 months. So that'd be 10 books = 10 x 31 euro = 310 euro
> > cost --- shipping and whatnot --> 400 euro cost.
> >
> > (After we release 0.91, I will become very active in pushing for C++11
> > (i.e., upgrading our compiler dependencies to more modern versions so
> > we can start using part of C++11 features), and general maintenance /
> > refactoring / cleaning up. It's pretty rewarding I find, and very
> > low-key in terms of long-time brain-investment.)
> >
> > Johan
> > """
> >
> >
> >
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